Video Content Creative

Job description

## Fresh Food, Happy Dogs. We believe dogs deserve the healthiest, most natural and tastiest meals - with none of the nasties. That’s why we make FRESHly prepared food, cooked just like you would at home and delivered direct to our customers in perfect portions. As a B-Corp certified company, you’re joining a sustainable business that genuinely cares about our people, our products and our impact on the planet. Our goal is simple: to help dogs live healthier, happier, and longer lives, while leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave), hand delivered the very first Butternut Box. Today, we feed hundreds of thousands of hungry dogs across the UK and Europe - but we won’t stop until we’re feeding dogs everywhere. To get there, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work for us. Our Berlin office is located right at centre, in Mitte. You’ll be joining a close-knit team of around 12 people, plus a number of adorable office dogs. Dogs are very much welcome in the office🐾 --- ### **📋 About the role** We’re looking for a performance-minded, hands-on, full-time **Video Content Creative** to help scale the Butternut Box brand across Germany and Italy. In this role, you’ll be responsible for localising, iterating and creating, high-converting video ad concepts that directly support brand and commercial growth. This isn’t just about making things look great, it’s about understanding how creative hooks, drop-off rates, and CTR translate into business impact. Your time will be spent on concepting, localising, transcreating, editing, and iterating existing winning ad assets for our growth channels. You’ll work closely with our Brand & Creative team, Growth marketers, and international stakeholders. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on high execution velocity, creative testing, and data-backed iteration. **📅 Setup:** This is a hybrid role, based in Berlin, with two home office days per week (Tuesdays and Fridays). --- ### **🎬 What you’ll do** - Produce, transcreate, and scale a high weekly output of paid social video ads (**avg. 5–6 new or localised creatives per week per market**) for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. - Create, test, and iterate scroll-stopping video concepts, hooks, and messaging based on creative briefs, ad performance insights, and trending social content. - Adapt top-performing global creative assets for German and Italian audiences, utilising local cultural nuances, trend adaptation, and AI voice-over tools. - Create short-form video and motion design assets using After Effects. - Create long-form video assets using Premiere Pro. - Concept, film, and direct short-form content featuring dogs, dog parents, products, and brand moments, both on set and out in the wild. - Translate marketing briefs and insights from the Growth team into strong visual stories alongside Brand, Growth, and Copywriting stakeholders. --- ### **🎨 A bit about you** We’re looking for a performance-driven creator who balances artistic quality with speed, commercial awareness, and testing agility. **What we’re looking for** - Fluent/Native in **German** and fluent in **English** (both written and spoken). - Comfortable concepting and localising content - Experience digesting creative briefs and metrics to create high performing paid social content. - Confident using video editing and motion design tools like After Effects and Premiere Pro. - Solid understanding of direct-response performance principles (hooks, pacing, storytelling) and how to read ad metrics to improve business impact. - High execution velocity; proactive, structured, organised, and able to manage multiple projects, tight deadlines, and frequent iterations in a fast-paced environment. - Strong understanding of composition, framing, and lighting for short-form video. - A genuine love for dogs! **Nice to haves (the more, the merrier)** - Italian language skills - Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools or automated video platforms (e.g., ElevenLabs and SolidLabs) --- ### **🙌 What’s in it for you** • 25 days holiday and an additional day for every year of service • 5 paid ‘Paws’ days per year to support your learning and / or wellbeing • Equity package as part of our ownership culture • €500 personal learning & development budget • Monthly fee towards your Urban Sports Club membership • Butternut Box employee discount • Hybrid work setup • Incredible events with our paw-some team --- ### **⏳ The interview process:** 1. Initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner, carried out remotely. 2. Skills interview, usually carried out remotely. 3. Behaviours interview, carried out in person. 4. Informal coffee, in person with two squad members. *We usually expect our interview process to take 3-5 weeks, end to end.* **Important things to note:** - We recommend getting your application in as soon as possible. We reserve the right to close the role early. - Our team thrives on collaboration. We spend **3 days a week in our Berlin office** (Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday) and 2 days working from wherever you’re most productive. Because being together is a big part of our culture, we’re looking for someone within a comfortable commutable distance to London. - We’re a small (but mighty!) recruitment team. We aim to respond to everyone personally, but if we’re flooded with brilliant applications, we may need to close the role early. We appreciate your patience while we review applications. - For this specific role, we’re unable to offer visa sponsorship, so you’ll need the right to work in Germany. --- ### ❗️We believe in a **seat at the table for everyone.** Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that to make the best food for *all* dogs, we need a team that represents *all* humans. We celebrate different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We are specifically committed to increasing representation from underrepresented groups. We want a strong, diverse team built from different identities and lived experiences. We’re not perfect, but we are dedicated to the ongoing work of building an inclusive, supportive place where you can do the best work of your career. If this role makes your tail wag, we’d love to see your application and portfolio 🎥 ---