Freelance Complex News Content Creator

Posted 11 Days Ago
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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
Junior
AdTech • Digital Media
The Role
Serves as an on-camera Complex News host covering music, internet culture, entertainment, and cultural events. Creates approximately 10 vertical videos weekly by scripting, storyboarding, filming, editing, and posting content across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and the Complex app. Monitors breaking news, conducts interviews, collaborates with content strategy and social teams, and plans coverage for major cultural moments. Requires rapid turnaround, strong editorial judgment, cultural expertise, and flexible after-hours availability.
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Company And Culture

Complex is the definitive platform for global youth culture and music lifestyle, seamlessly integrating cutting-edge content, commerce and live experiences with unparalleled scale. Through innovative content, Complex tells stories of music, streetwear and style, sports, art and beyond. Its content engages in a dynamic conversation with the audience, reflecting and shaping the zeitgeist of convergence culture. A powerful media juggernaut paired with a curated marketplace, Complex is redefining the way fans interact with their favorite brands and artists and reshaping the future of digital culture and commerce.

Work Schedule

40 hours a week Monday - Friday 10am to 6pm

What You'll Do

  • Serve as an on-camera host of Complex News, ensuring major stories in music, pop/internet culture, and entertainment are covered with urgency and authority.

  • Storyboard, film, and edit high-quality video content for multiple platforms—including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and the Complex app—optimized for each platform’s storytelling style and audience behavior.

  • Produce and/or host approximately 10x vertical videos per week across formats.

  • Work closely with the Content Strategy Director to develop sharp, audience-first video content that performs across platforms.

  • Monitor the news cycle in real time and deliver fast, informed takes that are relevant to what our audience actually cares about.

  • Work with the social team to maximize the reach of every video.

  • Conduct on-camera interviews with talent, industry figures, and newsmakers to advance stories and build lasting relationships.

  • Plan coverage in advance for major cultural moments and events that align with the Complex brand.

  • Help coordinate scheduling alongside social editors to ensure seamless coverage.

Who You Are

  • 2+ years in a media or entertainment environment with demonstrated experience delivering scripted and unscripted content, interviewing talent, anchoring coverage

  • Deep understanding of Complex's world — internet culture, music, sneakers, pop culture, and entertainment

  • Natural on-camera presence

  • A relentless pulse on culture — always knowing what's popping and what's next

  • Strong editorial instincts and the ability to find the right angle, tone, and energy for every segment

  • Comfortable with teleprompter and fully capable of going off-script with confidence

  • Able to deliver under pressure with tight turnarounds and live or same-day production schedules

  • A self-starter who can carry a segment with minimal direction

  • Must be able to script, shoot, edit, and post your own videos - CapCut experience preferred

  • Must be able to work a flexible schedule and be available after hours to cover breaking cultural moments as they happen

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.

 Complex participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship.

Skills Required

  • 2+ years of experience in a media or entertainment environment
  • Experience delivering scripted and unscripted content
  • Experience interviewing talent and anchoring coverage
  • Deep understanding of internet culture, music, sneakers, pop culture, and entertainment
  • Strong on-camera presence
  • Strong editorial instincts and ability to select appropriate angles, tone, and energy
  • Comfort using a teleprompter and ability to deliver confidently off-script
  • Ability to work under pressure with tight turnarounds and live or same-day production schedules
  • Ability to script, shoot, edit, and post original videos independently
  • CapCut experience
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule and cover breaking cultural moments after hours
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
596 Employees
Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

Complex NTWRK champions the people, brands and new trends you need to know now, will obsess over next, and we build consumer universes around them. We're what a modern entertainment company looks like and what others have followed since 2002. From pop culture and style (Complex), music discovery (Pigeons and Planes), sneaker news (Sole Collector) to our festival of cultural convergence (ComplexCon) — if you want to be part of what's next and build valuable relationships with the audiences who live in it, join us at Complex NTWRK. Complex NTWRK creates and distributes original programming with premium distributors including Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Snap, Fuse, Pluto TV, Roku and more. Our content spans across music to movies, sports to video games, sneakers, fashion to food and more. In 2016, Complex launched its flagship event ComplexCon in Long Beach, California, to bring the "Internet to life."

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