The Daily Wire is looking for a Social Platform Specialist with a sharp eye for the moments that make people stop scrolling. You’ll turn podcasts, debates, interviews, live events, and text-based content into timely, culturally resonant social assets. This hands-on role also supports scheduling, publishing, and performance tracking across assigned platforms. If you have strong editorial instincts, understand what works on social, and can move quickly from source material to compelling content, we want to hear from you.
Primary Responsibilities
- Create and edit engaging short-form video and social assets from podcasts, debates, interviews, live events, and text-based content.
- Identify culturally relevant, humorous, emotional, or conversation-driving moments with strong social potential.
- Repurpose long-form content into compelling, platform-native clips optimized for engagement and audience behavior.
- Enhance content with subtitles, on-screen text, motion graphics, and other creative elements tailored to each platform.
- Support publishing and scheduling across platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Meta, X, and Reddit.
- Write compelling titles, coordinate thumbnails, and optimize posting times, tags, and content categorization.
- Monitor reach, engagement, watch time, retention, and other performance metrics, using insights and A/B testing to improve future content.
- Collaborate with Platform Specialists and Social Leadership to align creative with platform strategy, performance goals, and publishing priorities.
Experience & Requirements
- 2–3 years of hands-on short-form video editing or clipping experience, or an equivalent portfolio demonstrating relevant skills.
- Proficiency in video editing software such as Premiere Pro, CapCut, or similar, with a strong eye for pacing, subtitles, motion graphics, and on-screen text.
- Deep understanding of major social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and Snapchat.
- Strong instincts for social-first content, audience engagement, emerging trends, and what makes content perform.
- Interest in and familiarity with the political, cultural, and editorial news landscape.
- Strong understanding of the Daily Wire brand, voice, and Talent.
- Working knowledge of platform analytics tools and ability to use performance data to inform creative decisions.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with excellent proofreading, grammar, and written communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of professional video editing experience, preferably creating short-form social content
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Experience with After Effects
- Strong portfolio showcasing short-form video editing with focus on hooks, pacing, storytelling, and audience retention
- Deep understanding of platform best practices across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook, and X
- Ability to work quickly under tight deadlines and publish same-day on breaking news
- Strong editorial judgment to identify compelling moments from long-form content
- Experience collaborating within a fast-paced team and incorporating feedback
- Ability to maintain a consistent brand voice while adapting to different on-air talent styles
- Experience creating motion graphics and designing social media thumbnails
- Background editing for creator-led, talent-driven, or digital media brands
- Familiarity with The Daily Wire's content, audience, and mission
- Working knowledge of social media analytics including audience retention, watch time, and click-through rate and ability to apply insights
What We Do
Not every company kicks off in a converted garage and expands into one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment - but then again, no other company is the Daily Wire. Built from the ground up by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing, the Daily Wire started as a side gig and morphed into a political news and commentary powerhouse in just 7 short years. Now, the Daily Wire is producing entertainment content, investigative journalism, multiple chart-topping podcasts, and - you guessed it - some fire memes. And we’re not stopping there. Our team is constantly moving, innovating and growing. We adapt to any and all obstacles with a team of creative geniuses that are all aligned in creating unparalleled content that provides a voice for facts and for freedom. We don't just echo whatever’s trending - we set trends. When you join the Daily Wire team, your finger isn’t just on the pulse. From the studios of CANDACE and The Ben Shapiro Show to the newsroom of some of America’s most influential writers, you are the pulse. And if that interests you, we’re all ears.
