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title: 'Freelance Creative Operations at Shook'
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# Freelance Creative Operations at Shook

- **Company:** Shook
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shook/caf8606d-edc8-44ff-a576-85f69fc63e92

## Job description

Job Title: Freelance Creative Operations Manager Location: Remote (with CET time zone overlap) Type: Freelance · Project-based (with potential to expand to multiple projects)

## 🧠 ABOUT SHOOK DIGITAL

At Shook Digital, we're building the production engine for the next generation of advertisers. High-performing UGC is no longer a "nice-to-have." It is the core of the modern ad stack. We help brands scale their TikTok presence by turning creative chaos into high-performing systems.

Founded in the era of short-form video, Shook has become the partner of choice for brands that need to move fast without losing creative quality. What unites our team is a relentless focus on learning speed, operational rigor, and a deep understanding of why people stop scrolling.

Our goal is to make Shook Digital the global standard for UGC. We want to build a system so efficient that "20-day delivery" feels like a law of nature, not a challenge. This role is central to that momentum.

## 🎬 THE ROLE

We're looking for someone to own the production machine — starting from the blank page. This isn't about "watching videos" or shepherding someone else's idea through a pipeline. It's about developing the concept and script yourself, then managing the complex lifecycle of talent, deadlines, and technical constraints that turns that idea into a high-performing asset, every single time.

The best producers make production look calm, composed, and smooth. Not because nothing goes wrong: creators go quiet, lighting fails, briefs get read three different ways. It looks smooth because they saw most of it coming. We aren't looking for a "project coordinator" who passes messages along. We're looking for a Producer who originates the idea, leads a shoot with the next three steps already mapped, and when something does slip through, has a solution ready before anyone has to ask for one.

## 🌐 WORK MODE

Shook Digital is remote-first. This role is open to candidates with significant overlap with Central European Time (CET). We value deep focus and async work, but production is a live sport — and it's also a team sport. You need to be responsive during core hours to keep the gears turning, and genuinely engaged with the people turning them alongside you.

## 🤳🏻 WHAT YOU'LL DO:

- Own the Machine: Manage the end-to-end production workflow. You are responsible for the balance between creative "taste" and 20-day delivery speed.
- Concept & Script Ownership: Develop the creative concept and script yourself before a single frame is shot. This is the highest-leverage part of any production, and it starts with you.
- AI-Augmented Workflow: We run an AI-automated production platform and use tools like ElevenLabs for voiceover. You're comfortable working within AI-assisted systems and see them as a way to move faster — not a threat to the craft.
- Creator Partnership: Source and "ghost-proof" our creator network. You don't just hire them; you build relationships that ensure they follow the brief and hit the deadline.
- The Feedback Loop: Review raw footage with a TikTok-native eye. If a hook is weak or the energy is off, you provide the firm, direct feedback needed to fix it.
- Systems Thinking: Help us refine our modular ad structures. You'll organize hooks, bodies, and CTAs so they can be tested and iterated on at scale.

## 📹 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Craft Ownership: You have real hands-on scriptwriting and concept-development experience — this isn't something you're hoping to pick up on the job.
- Operational Ownership: You find "messy" workflows painful. You are the person who creates the spreadsheet that saves the project.
- TikTok Fluency: You understand the platform's DNA. You know why a native-feeling "CapCut" edit outperforms a polished studio commercial.
- High Agency: You are comfortable with ambiguity. If a creator drops out on Day 12, you don't wait for permission. You've already sourced a backup.
- Direct Communication: You can give critical feedback to creators without sugar-coating it, while maintaining a great working relationship.
- Taste: You know what "good" looks like. You can spot a high-retention hook in the first 2 seconds of raw footage.
- Collaborative by Nature: You build real working relationships with your team, not just transactional handoffs — this is a genuinely tight-knit group, and we want it to stay that way.
- Resilience: You don't take it personally when a creator fails to deliver. You see a ghosting creator as a data point to be managed, not a personal crisis. You stay calm when the timeline gets tight.

## 🌍 WHAT WE OFFER

- Interesting Challenges: Work on global campaigns for leading brands.
- A paid onboarding capped at 50 hours.
- Autonomy: We hire adults and trust them. No micromanagement, just putting things together and getting things done.
- Remote Flexibility: Work from wherever you are most productive, provided you can hit the CET overlap.
- Professional Growth: Opportunity to move from "Managing Projects" to "Owning Systems" as we scale.

## 💰 COMPENSATION

During onboarding (up to 50 hours), your hourly rate is €40/hr. Once onboarded, you move to flat per-project rates starting at €650, scaling with scope and complexity — plus bonuses for language match, niche industry expertise, and top-tier accounts.

## 🪜 HOW WE HIRE

We believe in a transparent process that prioritizes evidence of work over interviews. Our goal is to see how you think, communicate, and get things done.

1. The Brief (20 min): A focused call to discuss our production philosophy, your experience with short-form systems, and how you approach concept development.
2. The Work Trial (2 hours, paid): A real campaign brief and a common production bottleneck. You'll show us how you'd concept it, organize the workflow, brief the creator, and ensure the deadline is met.
3. Task presentation & final interview (1 hr, unpaid): You'll walk us through the task you did, present your ideas and explain your thinking. We're looking for operational clarity, attention to detail, and creative work that's on-brief.
4. Final Chat: A quick alignment on terms and start date. We move from interview to onboarding in days, not weeks.

👀 Ready to Apply?

If you’re excited about building efficient, scalable workflows for creative production—and love collaborating with creators—we’d love to hear from you. Apply now.

## About Shook

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Shook is a creative performance partner that combines AI, creators, and performance data with automation to produce and optimize short-form video ads for paid social platforms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed + Venture stage)
- **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Joonatan Lintala (CEO & Co-founder) and Jesse Ketonen (Co-founder & CBO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Advertising Services / Creative Production for Performance Marketing
- **Target customers**: Performance advertisers, brands, and marketing teams (B2B, SMB to enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Help brands win in the short-form video era by making ads that actually perform, using a scalable creative system powered by AI and fueled by performance data.

## Products & Services
- **The Shook Method**: A modular approach to UGC production that includes AI-enhanced planning, post-production, and creative analytics combined with structured testing and rapid iteration. Covers the full workflow from briefs to final assets.
- **Managed Creative Services**: A full-service experience for brands and performance advertisers, building native creatives and optimized campaigns on TikTok and Douyin (China’s TikTok). Includes UGC from vetted creators and evergreen assets filmed and edited globally.
- **Shook Platform (Creative OS)**: A SaaS layer that unifies tools and services — audience insights, modular concept generation, production, and performance data loops — into a single operating system for creative teams.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $4.5M (2 rounds: $2.1M Venture round in August 2023; $2.4M Pre-Seed round in January 2024 led by Icebreaker.vc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Icebreaker.vc (lead investor), 13 total investors across both rounds. Official TikTok Marketing Partner.
- **Growth Signals**: Monthly website visits grew +397.9% year-over-year (despite a -30% headcount decline to 19 employees). Operates in 6 countries. Maintains active job postings (e.g., Freelance AI Video Creator, Freelance Video Editor). LinkedIn followers growing +29.3% yearly.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform + production**: Unlike competitors that offer either tools or services, Shook combines both into one “Creative OS,” providing end-to-end solutions from planning to post-production to performance analysis.
- **The Shook Method**: A proprietary, data-driven creative system designed specifically for short-form video and paid social, using modular UGC production and rapid test-and-learn loops to optimize ROAS.
- **Official TikTok Marketing Partner status** gives early access to platform features, insights, and best practices.
- **AI integration**: Employs AI for creative analytics, scene scoring, and post-production to accelerate iteration and improve performance.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand its platform capabilities to serve more performance marketers globally.
- Deepen AI integration for creative analytics and automation (evident in roles like Freelance AI Video Creator).
- Leverage its official TikTok partnership and presence in China (Douyin) to capture cross-border advertising demand.
- Continue scaling its managed service alongside the SaaS offering to serve both larger brands and SMBs.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Small, agile team (≈19 employees) with a strong international presence (6 countries). Emphasis on data-driven creativity and AI acceleration.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Multiple office locations (London, Helsinki, Beijing, Shanghai) but job postings list “Remote” and the Built In London profile states “OnSite Workspace” with “Typical time on-site: None,” suggesting a flexible remote-first approach.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Work at the intersection of AI, creative production, and performance marketing. Opportunity to shape the future of short-form video advertising alongside an official TikTok partner. Open roles include freelance and contract positions, appealing to those seeking flexibility in the adtech/creative space.

## Sources
1. [shook.digital](https://shook.digital/)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/shook](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shook)
3. [uk.linkedin.com/company/shook-digital](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/shook-digital)
4. [builtinlondon.uk/company/shook-digital](https://builtinlondon.uk/company/shook-digital)
5. [theorg.com/org/shook-digital](https://theorg.com/org/shook-digital)

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