Freelance Content Creator & Video Editor (6 months

Position: Freelance Content Creator & Video Editor (6 months)
Do you see a story in a rooftop sunset, a chef plating something new and two strangers becoming friends over dinner? Are you as strong at editing as you are behind the camera, and fast at both? Then keep reading!
This is a new role and an honest experiment. We're testing whether one great in-house creator, plus a trained network of local content spotters, beats hiring freelancers city by city. You're not filling a seat that someone else shaped, you're proving a model and then scaling it. If it works, you'll have built Zoku's content engine. That's a better story than most content jobs can offer.
Zoku provides a home for business travelers who want to live in a city for between a few days and a few months. We're a new type of hotel offering a relaxed place to live, co-work and socialize across Europe. Join an international team of driven, proactive and fun-loving Zokus who all have one thing in common: a passion for connecting people across the globe.
TELL ME MORE   As our Content Creator & Video Editor, you own the content that Zoku plans, publishes and pays to promote. You'll plan, produce and edit high-quality photo and video that brings our brand, spaces, events and commercial campaigns to life (for social, paid media, CRM, website, sales and recruitment) with one consistent Zoku look & feel across every location.
Now the honest part: one person can't be in four hotels at once, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. So we've split content into two streams.
Stream one is yours.  Everything planned, high-value and commercially relevant: F&B and rooftop campaigns, key M&E and corporate events, campaign shoots, new partnerships, paid social assets, website and sales imagery, the brand moments that matter. These aren't spotter tasks. They're production, and they need quality, consistency and craft.
Stream two is local.  The daily, spontaneous stuff: a resident's story, a busy Friday on the terrace, a team moment, a chef's new dish, captured as raw material by Community Managers you've trained as content spotters. They spot, capture and upload. They don't edit, publish or manage accounts. You select, shape and edit what they send, and you set the bar for what's good enough to leave the building.
Your travel follows a rolling 8–12 week content calendar built around commercial and brand priorities — campaigns, events, F&B, M&E, recruitment, seasonal moments, missing assets and paid media needs — not a fixed rotation. Where the story is, you are.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
No day looks the same as a Content Creator & Video Editor… but here's a glimpse of what you can expect:
Own Planned Content Production:  Take full ownership of Zoku's planned, high-value content — campaign shoots, F&B and rooftop, key events, partnerships, paid social assets, website, sales and recruitment content — from concept to delivered asset.

Plan Around a Rolling 8-12 Week Calendar:  Build and maintain your production and travel plan against commercial and brand priorities, so every trip earns its place.

Film & Photograph:  Capture Zoku spaces, community events, food & drink, guest experiences and the people who make it all work: confidently, and in a way that never feels staged.

Edit & Deliver:  Edit short-form video and stills with a strong sense of pacing, storytelling, subtitles and music, and deliver ready-to-use assets in the right formats and ratios for each channel. On time, ready to publish.

Find the Stories:  Identify and develop authentic stories featuring residents, guests, partners and team members across all four locations.

Train & Run the Spotter Network:  Train Community Managers to capture usable raw material, write and maintain a simple spotter guide (what to capture, how to film it, what not to do, consent rules, where to upload), and keep the network motivated and consistent.

Guard the Look & Feel:  Own Zoku's visual standard. You're the quality gate between raw material and anything that carries our name.

Run the Asset Library:  Keep everything organized, tagged, consented, rights-cleared and easy for the team to find and reuse.

Support the Wider Team:  Deliver assets to the Social Media & Content Manager for publishing,…