Content Strategist

About the Role

Little Dot Studios is looking for a Content Strategist to join its Social Video Services team in Los Angeles. The role sits at the intersection of strategy, creative development, and platform performance, helping shape standout content for major clients across YouTube and other social video channels.

This position plays an important part in protecting and evolving the company’s creative standards while collaborating across teams to produce high-performing, platform-native work. It also includes supporting platform managers and strategists with content ideas, trend insights, reports, proposals, playbooks, and competitive analysis.

The team works across a multi-platform production environment that includes a social media agency and digital media network. The business creates content for entertainment, sports, consumer brands, and other major clients, with a strong focus on audience growth, engagement, and performance.

What You’ll Do

• Develop original video ideas for well-known brands across social video platforms.
• Combine platform data, current trends, and creative judgment to guide channel strategy.
• Present and explain concepts to internal stakeholders and clients in a clear, persuasive way.
• Create visually engaging images, GIFs, and social posts.
• Write strong brand-aligned copy that reflects the right editorial voice and tone.
• Use YouTube analytics to shape strategic decisions for channels and content.
• Support content development across the Social Video Services team and help improve output against performance benchmarks.
• Assist with trend reports, proposals, playbooks, competitive reports, and other strategic materials.
• Help create, optimize, and distribute video content for YouTube and other social platforms.
• Act as a mentor or resource for platform managers interested in creative development and content strategy.

What You Need

• At least 3 years of experience in social media or a related digital marketing role.
• Experience managing teams.
• Strong understanding of YouTube and social video platforms, including how native content differs across them.
• Solid grasp of YouTube analytics and how performance data should influence creative choices.
• Advanced working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Premiere; After Effects is an added advantage.
• Background in producing social video, including timecoded edits.
• A highly creative, internet-savvy mindset with strong awareness of social trends.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Proven client management experience.
• Strong attention to detail, including the ability to proofread and quality-check your own work.
• Collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable in a fast-moving startup-style environment.
• Language fluency beyond English is a plus.

Perks and Benefits

• Monthly health and wellness stipend.
• Free counseling sessions.
• Regular team happy hours, treats, and events.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• Learning and development support for personal and professional growth.
• Flexible time off for holidays, family needs, travel, or mental health.
• Half-day Fridays during the summer.

Additional Information

Candidates must have unrestricted authorization to work in the United States.

Applications should be completed in the applicant’s own words. Generative AI may be used only for light editing or refinement; submissions that appear to be fully AI-generated will not be considered.

The company does not accept submissions from search firms or recruiters.

Little Dot Studios is committed to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status, including race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, pregnancy, age over 40, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, registered domestic partner status, or other protected categories under applicable law.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation. Assistance can be requested to complete forms or take part in the hiring process.

The company will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in line with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

Little Dot Studios is a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network. It is known for strategy, audience development, content production, monetization, and digital copyright management. The company also operates a digital media network with 135+ channels across social platforms and six FAST channels on streaming services, licensing over 21,000 hours of premium content to reach more than 125 million unique viewers each month. It also owns and operates specialist sport and branded content production agency WING and broadcaster Dan Snow’s History Hit podcast network and SVOD service. The company has been carbon neutral since inception and is targeting net-zero by 2030. Founded in 2013, it has offices in the UK, US, Germany, and ANZ and is part of All3Media.