Multimedia Content Creator (Social)

About this role

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 18,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.

In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.

About the Role

We're looking for a Multimedia Content Creator with strong video production skills to build out Algolia's video presence from the ground up. This is a video-first role, you'll spend most of your time creating, shooting, and editing content, with a smaller slice supporting day-to-day social publishing and community engagement. It's ideal for someone who came up through video production (school, internship, or hands-on project work) and wants to grow into social strategy alongside a Social Media Manager who'll mentor you on that side.

Reporting to the Social Media Manager within Corporate Communications, you'll own YouTube channel strategy and optimization, repurpose long-form Academy content into short, platform-native video, and build new content for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn, and emerging channels.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, edit, and publish social-first video content, including short-form clips, interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, product explainers, training videos, event recaps, and trend-based content.

• Support the planning and management of the social media calendar across priority platforms.

• Film and produce lightweight video content using smartphones, cameras, microphones, lighting, and basic production tools.

• Edit videos for multiple formats and platforms, including captions, motion graphics, thumbnails, hooks, transitions, music, and platform-specific aspect ratios.

• Audit and revitalize Algolia's YouTube channel — assess what's currently there, identify gaps and opportunities, and build a content plan to grow it.

• Write social copy that is clear, engaging, brand-appropriate, and tailored to each channel.

• Monitor social trends, platform updates, memes, creator formats, and competitor activity to identify relevant content opportunities.

• Engage with audiences by monitoring comments, messages, mentions, and community conversations.

• Track content performance and prepare basic reporting on metrics such as reach, engagement, views, watch time, follower growth, and top-performing posts.

• Repurpose long-form, educational content from the Algolia Academy team into short, promotional, platform-ready video and social content.

• Collaborate with marketing, communications, design, product, training department (i.e., Academy team) and other internal teams to gather content and support campaigns.

• Maintain an organized library of video assets, templates, raw footage, graphics, and published content.

• Help ensure all content reflects the brand voice, visual identity, and messaging priorities with guidance from the Design team.

• Up to 20% travel.

What We’re Looking For

• 1+ years of hands-on video production experience (school, internship, freelance, or professional) — this is the core requirement. Social media experience alone, without video production skill, is not a fit for this role.

• Based in or near New York or Boston, or otherwise able to work Eastern time zone hours. Boston/NYC strongly preferred for in-person video production and team collaboration.

• Strong video editing skills, especially for short-form social content.

• Experience with tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Canva, Photoshop, or similar platforms.

• A good sense of humor, genuine curiosity, and a willingness to experiment and go against the norm.

• Comfortable navigating a first-of-its-kind role with no established playbook, tenacious about asking questions and building processes as you go.

• A good eye for pacing, storytelling, framing, sound, captions, and visual polish.

• Strong understanding of TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube Shorts, and other major social platforms.

• Ability to write concise, engaging social copy.

• Comfortable filming content, directing simple shoots, and working with non-professional talent.

• Highly organized, reliable, and able to manage multiple projects and deadlines.

• Curious about social trends, creator culture, and what makes content perform.

• Comfortable receiving feedback and iterating quickly.

• Basic understanding of social analytics and reporting.

Nice to Have

• Experience creating content for B2B, technology, lifestyle, media, or consumer brands.

• Basic motion graphics or animation skills.

• Experience with social media scheduling and analytics tools such as Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Later, Buffer, HubSpot, or native platform analytics.

• Photography skills.

• Experience supporting live…