This is an amazing opportunity to join Williams Racing at an incredibly exciting time. As Content Creator, you will be responsible for helping drive and evolve the comprehensive visual output of Williams F1 Racing team and its content channels.
The remit has a greater focus on photography, but ideally candidates will offer a blend of stills and moving images. You will bring energy and skill and help propel our visual offering both at race weekends throughout the year and occasionally at our HQ in Grove, taking projects from initial shoot planning/ideation through to execution and then postproduction, as we look to expand and develop our in-house creative and content capabilities at a best-in-class level. Coverage will include delivering projects for events and partnerships.
You will contribute to ideation, style, technology and the overall look and feel of our content. From daily and weekly fast turnaround content to larger productions, you will have the opportunity to help move Williams forward in how we connect with our partners, fans and showcase our brand.
We are looking for talented individuals with an undeniable eye for visual execution and the ability and drive to take concepts from idea to delivery. This role will require frequent travel on race weekends.
Main Duties:
- Confidently operate around key high-profile talent and a fast-moving sport both abroad and in the UK.
- Contribute to content ideation and help guide on best use of various platforms.
- Work closely and effectively with a wider internal content team including social media managers, creative producers, production managers, editors, motion graphics artists and more.
- Manage internal camera/production equipment and guide on any new technologies keeping Williams at the forefront of content trends and capabilities.
- Implement a consistent style and tone of voice across all content produced by Williams, in conjunction with the brand team and social media team to align with the wider marketing strategy.
- Help propel content production both on race weekends throughout the F1 calendar and other events.
- Challenge and seek to continuously improve processes, procedures and protocols related to video/photo and content production at Williams.
- Understand and handle the importance of representing Williams and most importantly our content team as a positive, solution-based, and collaborative presence within paddock and at Grove.
- Work with the Events and Partnership Teams to deliver Partner and Event imagery requests across a race weekend.
Core Competencies:
- Be ambitiously driven to take creativity at Williams to new successes.
- Enjoys working both autonomously and in a team.
- Experience working under pressure and clear ability to take ownership of projects and processes independently when needed.
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders across different departments in a dynamic, fast-paced environment,
- Exceptional visual skills and the ability to execute and deliver even in high-pressure situations.
Company Description
For almost 50 years, Williams Racing has been at the forefront of one of the fastest sports on the planet, being one of the top three most successful teams in history competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. With an almost unrivalled heritage of engineering and racing F1 cars and unforgettable eras that demonstrate it is a force to be reckoned with, the British squad boasts 16 F1 World Championship titles to its name.
Since its foundation in 1977 by the eminent, late Sir Frank Williams and engineering pioneer Sir Patrick Head, the team has won nine Constructors’ Championships, in association with Cosworth, Honda and Renault. Its roll call of drivers is legendary, with its seven Drivers’ Championship trophies being lifted by true icons of the sport: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The team has made history before and is out to make it again with a long-term mission to evolve and return to the front of the grid.
Qualifications
- At least two years of industry experience delivering best in class creative content, ideally in a sporting industry
- High levels of software capability across photography and ideally video e.g. experience using Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects etc,
- High levels of camera and production equipment capabilities, great technical knowledge
Additional Information
We fuel our team with a competitive benefits package, including generous holidays, vibrant staff events, a subsidised onsite restaurant, and a range of car schemes. Stay energised with 24/7 access to our gym and free fitness classes like outdoor boot camps, Pilates, and Yoga. With free parking and sprawling green spaces, you’ve got the perfect space to recharge and refocus.
Join a fast-paced, future-thinking team that’s driving innovation and pushing past engineering boundaries.
Atlassian Williams Racing is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.
