Junior Content Developer 2024

Type: Trainee
Region: Scotland

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?

• Watching never-before-seen TV episodes before they’re released
• Creating clips and GIFs from each episode to be posted on official show and talent social accounts
• Subtitling videos posted to official show social accounts
• Proofing social content and video before delivery to clients
• Fully immersing yourself in all aspects of each show, e.g. show announcements, social accounts, fan culture
• Uploading and testing content on high-traffic apps

Qualifications

What’s important to us

• High level of attention to detail and ability to spot mistakes quickly
• Excellent understanding of grammar, punctuation and written English in general
• Experience with basic video editing, preferably using Adobe Premiere Pro
• Strong work-ethic and self-motivation
• A friendly and enthusiastic demeanour
• A love of TV shows 🙂

As long as you possess smarts, attention to detail and enthusiasm, please still apply.

Your working environment

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 175 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 for this role. We have flexible working hours so you can start your day anytime between 9am and 10am.

To best serve our US clients, we are looking for people who can work at least two late shifts (1:30pm-10pm) per week, and one weekend day every month. So, some days you’ll need to be flexible to work later if there’s a key delivery to a US client, but any time can be taken back.

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.

Why us?

• £23k salary 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

Benefits

Immediate benefits

• 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

After 3 months

• 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

After 1 year

• 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

Recruitment process

Firstly, you will be asked to complete an online video which will involve answering a mixture of questions.

If that goes well, we’ll ask you to conduct a short task. Depending on the outcome of your task, we will invite you to an interview (60 minutes via MS Teams). During the meeting, Nicola, our Head of Content Services, and Mairi, our Senior Content Services Manager, will get to know you and try to understand if you’d be a good fit for the role, and at the same time answer all your questions.

And that’s it!