Senior Content Creator (Sport)

Who We Are

We are the largest global socially-led creative agency, with unrivalled social media and influencer marketing expertise. With over 1,200 people in four continents, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.

We're proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help Amazon Music, Activision and Adidas deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date.

As well as creating for clients, we help educate the wider industry. Our Instagram publication The Feed tracks culture at the speed of social. 6,500 people registered or tuned into our events last year, and our reports garnered more than 20 million views.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Content Creator (Sports) to join our team, creating award-winning, social-first content for some of the world’s most recognised sports brands. You’ll be passionate about sport, especially football culture and have an extensive proven portfolio of social-first work for top brands in sport spaces. You’ll have proven experience earning a place in audiences' minds by building brand presence at the speed of social. This is an end-to-end creative role: you will ideate, shoot, and edit entertaining, attention-grabbing content, with a deep passion for sports, especially football culture.

You’ll also be briefed to support the wider team in developing creative platforms and social-first campaigns with additional content ideas that extend big ideas beyond campaigns. We’re looking for someone who is self-initiating, passionate and excited to own the output of social accounts from TikTok to Instagram with proactive ideas and content creation.

What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere

• Previously worked as a senior content creator within the sports space, turning images into memes, developing repeatable formats, filming TikToks, capturing BTS, jumping on trends and managing communities.
• A portfolio of on-brand, on-brief, self-shot and self-edited original social video content.
• Experience scripting social-first content and writing relatable, attention-grabbing hooks.
• Comfortable working with minimal oversight to develop original, unexpected, on-brief ideas, present them in client-facing decks, and execute them independently.
• Collaborated with design, content and creative teams; identified content opportunities and supported others to upskill.
• Proficient in social editing tools (e.g. CapCut) and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Illustrator).
• Captured, edited and delivered daily social content using a mobile.
• Ideated trend-led content that delivered results for brands.
• Confident writing and presenting ideas to internal and external stakeholders.
• Used community management insights to turn online culture into ideas and branded content.

What Else Are We Looking For

• Able to generate a high volume of simple but original content ideas at pace, and quickly bring the strongest to life with strong social video craft.
• A deep understanding of, passion for and curiosity about fast-moving, creator-led and brand-led social.
• Highly attuned to contemporary social content strategy, formats and trends, with a strong grasp of how to maximise platform features.
• Proactive in using community management creatively, turning comments into briefs.
• A clear creative vision for day-to-day content across brand accounts.
• Comfortable developing ideas that align with a brand’s social media strategy, presenting them in decks where needed, and creating the content.
• Takes full accountability for results and deliverables.
• Solution-focused, with confidence in articulating ideas and approaches.

Our Culture and the Nice Stuff

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL. Our Charter for Change in the UK can be found here which details our focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2026.

Inclusion at every level is crucial to creative innovation and success, and we want to create a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We welcome and encourage talent from ALL backgrounds and are committed to creating a representative team that can deliver creative excellence. If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via [email protected]

So let’s get to the good stuff, we offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world!

But what’s life around here really like day-to-day? Well, we ask our people regularly what they think about us/their role and here are some of the most common things they say:

• I value my manager we have a good relationship
• We love to ‘get social’ with the people I work with
• Trusted to get on with the job, without ‘micro-management’!

If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?