💸 £28k-£30k per year, on a full time permanent contract
🌎 Edinburgh office or fully remote working from anywhere in the UK!
🏖 33 Days Paid Leave
✨ Working with globally recognisable brands in US Entertainment
💻 High-end, fast computer
💡 All the latest software and productivity tools you’ll need
Founded in 2008, we are an international team that works with incredible and globally-recognized clients all over the world, particularly in the US TV industry.
Whether it’s developing our own products, producing engaging social content en-masse, or designing and delivering services to help our clients work more efficiently, our work is varied, exciting, and at the very forefront of the latest technology and trends.
Currently, we are a growing team of 175+ people, but still looking for new colleagues who make an impact and believe in the same ideas and values as we do.
If the idea of a fast-paced, dynamic role with tonnes of opportunity for change, responsibility, and innovation sounds exciting to you, then read on!
What can you expect?
Idea Generation and Innovation:
You’ll develop creative and innovative social media ideas tailored to each of our clients' unique voices and goals. You’ll regularly brainstorm and propose new concepts for social media posts that align with current trends and the strategic objectives of our clients
Trend Monitoring:
Consistently monitoring social media trends and platform updates, keeping your finger on the pulse! You’ll apply these insights to enhance the content you’re pitching, as well as outlining new trends and developments to internal teams and clients.
Performance Analysis:
You’ll monitor and analyse performance metrics for posts across our clients, including engagement rates, followers, and content reach, using all of these stats to inform strategy and ideas, plus generate learnings for everyone to implement.
Collaborative Work Environment:
Working closely with production managers, video editors, and designers to conceptualize and produce compelling content for pitches, strategy decks, and social media posts.
Content Calendar Management:
Management and working with social media content calendars, coordinating and adapting around key events and dates, platforms and client priorities.
Fandom Immersion:
You’ll become an expert in our clients’ shows, deep diving into each fandom to inform strategy and concepts, and develop your own knowledge.
Social-First Marketing Knowledge:
Cultivating your expertise in organic, social-first marketing strategies focused on fan engagement, you’ll transfer this understanding across clients and their needs, developing a deep knowledge of social-first content.
Team Collaboration:
You’ll be working remotely so it’s a combination of collaborating via tools like Slack and Teams as well as working asynchronously with the broader Storm Ideas team, clients, and external partners. You’ll also be using internal workflow tools like Airtable to complete and keep track of your tasks in our remote-first work environment.
What's important for us:
Deep understanding of social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok, etc.), including best practices and current trends.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the capacity to work effectively in a team and communicate strategies clearly internally, and clearly convey your ideas and recommendations.
Strong capability in analysing social media metrics to gauge performance and make data-driven decisions.
Genuine interest in and knowledge of US television shows and the industry, including staying current with new releases and engaging with fan communities.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritise tasks, and meet deadlines.
What's nice to have:
Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Media Studies, or a related field.
2+ years of experience in social media management, digital marketing, or a related field, preferably within the entertainment industry.
Previous experience creating engaging social media content. Portfolio of previous posts or projects is a plus!
Modern Tech Stack
We use the latest tools, hardware and methodologies across our teams. We’re always on the look-out for new ways of working and ensure everyone is setup with enough hardware firepower to excel, Windows or Mac.
Agility & Openness for Ideas
We actively encourage the entire team to share their ideas, with that in mind we regularly adopt and implement suggestions across the company, you’re the specialist here!
Operating with the agility of a high growth start-up, alongside the support you can expect from a larger organisation means we encourage quick decision making and a responsive, adaptive culture.
Outstanding People
We believe that great teams are built by a mixture of personality and skills, we’re an international team with more than 195 people onboard and we’re looking for people with a passion for what they do - just be yourself!
Flexibility
We’re a remote-first company and support 100% remote working, at your role you will be working only on day shifts between 9:00am and 5:30pm.
Joining us means becoming an integral part of the whole team no matter where we’re physically working, we have a number of initiatives to create a team environment regardless of geographic location.
£28,000 - £30,000 per year, depending on experience and skills.
Permanent / Full time. Either in our Edinburgh office or remote within the UK.
33 days’ holiday
High end laptop - macOS or Windows!
Top of the range monitors, headphones, keyboard, mouse and gel rests
Paid training to further your skills
Annual Flu inoculation
Team outings and monthly meets
Up to £700 to spend on a chair, desk or any other necessary workspace equipment to kit out your home office.
£750 budget every two years to choose your own mobile phone + monthly mobile contract paid for
Enrolment in workplace pension scheme with matched employer contributions
Money towards glasses with Specsavers
Performance Related Pay Scheme giving an annual bonus of up to 100% of monthly salary whenever Storm Ideas is in profit
Access to the Cycle to Work scheme
APPLICATION
Along with your CV, please send us a cover letter that really digs deep (but not too deep, like, 350 words is deep enough) and gets to the core of why you are the perfect social media star for this role. AND we want you to make a meme! Make any kind of meme based on a TV show you know well, send it in with your application and make us laugh!
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Firstly, you will be asked to complete an online video which will involve answering a mixture of questions.
If you’re successful, you’ll be invited to a 60 minute interview with Kiera, our Content Strategy Manager. She’ll get to know you and explain more about Storm Ideas and the role, plus give you an opportunity to ask any questions!
If that goes well, we’ll ask you to conduct a short task, to get a sense of how you think about social! Once we’ve seen your task, you might be invited to a 30 minute follow-up interview with Kiera and our CEO, Louise. And that’s it!