Associate Social Media Content Creator

About Carry1st: Carry1st is building the dominant commerce and digital publishing platform for Africa and the Middle East. Operating at the high-growth intersection of mobile gaming, interactive entertainment, and consumer fintech, we scale world-class gaming content across frontier markets by solving complex localized distribution challenges. We are partnered with top global gaming titans like Riot Games, Activision, and Tencent, and backed by premier venture capital firms including a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Sony, and Naspers. Our remote-first, highly collaborative team spans over 15 countries, driving digital adoption across the continent.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly creative, trends-fluent, and output-driven Associate Social Media Content Creator to join our global growth marketing team under a permanent, full-time remote configuration open across strategic regional hubs including South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, and Kenya. In this hands-on media production seat, you will serve as the core engine behind our organic and paid social footprint, claiming absolute timeline editing, pacing, and conversion-optimization accountability to engage African gaming audiences. Shifting completely away from non-technical back-office data transcription, administrative helpdesk support ticketing, or software source tree modifications, you will lead an active scroll-stopping short-form video assembly, live-ops campaign, and audience engagement laboratory. This position requires an aspiring creative production authority with 1–2+ years of social content creation experience who manipulates video timelines fluidly natively using Social Media Manager guidelines, adapts abstract global gaming concepts into culturally resonant regional hooks across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, maintains strict content calendars systematically, and analyzes audience retention metrics confidently to optimize ongoing performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Short-Form Video Production Governance: Conceptualize, splice, and produce high-impact, trend-driven short-form video ads and organic clips natively utilizing Social Media Manager methods to grow following metrics.
• Platform Trend Optimization: Architect, crop, and polish engaging short-form video content customized for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and X (Twitter) interfaces, adapting to rapid algorithm modifications.
• Growth & Live-Ops Synchronization: Partner cross-functionally with growth marketing cells to produce organic and paid video assets tied directly to in-game live ops, seasonal gaming events, and regional campaigns.
• Content Calendar Management: Own and systematically maintain a structured, rolling corporate content calendar to secure consistent, high-quality posting schedules across all active social grids.
• Cross-Functional Asset Engineering: Team up with content writers, graphic designers, and product leads to turn raw gameplay footage and concepts into highly persuasive motion narratives.
• Performance Telemetry Analytics: Track, evaluate, and report on key interaction metrics and user acquisition data to continually sharpen video hook structures and content strategy.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• A minimum of 1–2+ years of proven professional history operating inside a Social Media Content Creator, Video Editor, Growth Marketer, or identical digital multimedia production capacity.
• Mandatory Short-Form Video Portfolio: A verified professional portfolio demonstrating creative short-form video ads or organic content tailored to consumer media grids.
• Production-grade proficiency maneuvering video post-production tools such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, or CapCut, along with basic asset layout tools like Canva, Photoshop, or Illustrator.
• Deep operational mastery of TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and X content trends, with an established ability to localize global trends for African audiences.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication strengths in English, with a highly organized approach to managing multiple creative projects independently.
• Location Context: Position operates under remote guidelines open exclusively to qualified digital content creators residing permanently within South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, or Kenya.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• A genuine personal passion for the gaming industry, with specialized familiarity tracking mobile game mechanics and African gaming culture.
• Prior experience or background optimizing paid social advertisements, split-testing hooks, or managing acquisition budgets.
• Experience operating inside a venture-backed tech startup or fast-growing digital media agency environment.

What We Offer

• Top African Startup Growth Package: A market-competitive annual base salary optimized for experienced content creation talent, supplemented by corporate equity share ownership in a high-growth VC-backed startup.
• 100% remote workspace infrastructure freedom from your domestic home office based in South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, or Kenya.
• Dedicated Office Upgrade Stipends: Access to a generous remote working allowance of $600 USD per year to optimize your work-from-home laboratory equipment.
• Comprehensive health care provisions, awesome technology hardware equipment allocations, and extensive learning and development allowances for courses and conferences.
• Paid Rest & Celebration Incentives: Dedicated Paid Time Off (PTO) allowances, inclusive of a fully paid day off on your birthday, regular virtual or physical team connection events, and unconstrained career progression tracks.