About Athena

Athena is a marketing consultancy where great ideas take flight. With a blend of strategic thinking, creative vision, and hands-on execution, we partner with organizations looking to transform their presence, reputation, and performance. For over ten years, we’ve delivered business insights, marketing strategies, and brand activations for leading organizations in industries ranging from telecommunications to major league sports.

Our people make Athena, Athena. They’re what help set us apart from traditional ad agencies and consultancies. As a 2023 Philadelphia Inquirer Top Workplace, we take pride in fostering a work environment where passion meets excellence. Our people are solutions-oriented individuals who eagerly roll up their sleeves to make work that works while sharing a couple of laughs along the way.

About the Position

The Social Creative Team within our Creative Group produces engaging, impactful, thoughtful, exciting, and elevated content to represent a Fortune 30 brand across various social platforms.

As a Video Content Creator, you should be passionate about content creation and a social media aficionado with deep knowledge of platforms and tools. Equal parts shooter and editor, a Video Content Creator has a passion for social media and is dual-minded: highly creative but also efficiently coordinated. Ability to translate complex ideas into compelling content in a fast-paced environment is a must. Flexibility to work independently or collaboratively with multiple internal and external teams to get the job done.

While the focus will be on social media creative, we see the role as broader - supporting our digital production team holistically from end to end in a highly collaborative environment.

Requirements

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Work with a nimble team of producers and creators to ideate and create a consistent volume of high-quality, targeted content across all social media platforms using primarily in-house resources

• Understand the brand’s goals, strategy, and tone of voice

• Create content that makes measurable and impactful connections with target audiences

• Collaborate with different creative teams on rapid-fire requests, tight timelines, and longer-term projects

• A positive attitude and a commitment to being a collaborative team player

• Communicate openly about timelines, resources, requirements, etc.

The skills and experience you should have:

• 3-5 years relevant video production and storytelling experience

• Ability to film content, produce and edit content quickly, and deliver end-to-end

• Able to create storyboards, proof-of-concepts, and rough cuts

• Detail-oriented, deadline driven, and able to prioritize and manage high-volume workload

• Responsible, accountable, and self-starter, thrives in experimentation and collaboration environments

• Strong portfolio of digital storytelling experiences

• Fluency with digital production and post-production tools

• Video: DSLR and mobile

• Editing: Final Cut, After Effects, or Premiere

• Art/Design: Adobe CC, Figma, Canva

It’s a plus if you have:

• Bachelor's degree

• Motion design experience

Benefits

• Medical/Dental benefits including of 1K Health Reimbursement Account

• Matching 401K

• Generous PTO policy

• Substantial Parental Leave Policy

• Hybrid Work Environment (4 days on-site in Philadelphia, PA)

Curious about your career path at Athena? This role is within a rapidly growing creative department and the right candidate can excel, produce great work, and have an immediate impact on Athena’s creative product culture and growth.

Oh, and our application process is open, easy, as transparent as we can make it, and painless. We need team members like you to join us! Let’s get started.

Athena is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position, please contact us at 866.299.6040.