Location: Mount Prospect / Chicago, Illinois
Employment Type: Full-Time
Compensation: $55,000–$68,000 Base Salary + Performance Bonuses
Travel: Regular Regional Travel + Periodic Travel to Ohio + Occasional National Travel
DON'T SEND US A RÉSUMÉ. SHOW US WHAT YOU'VE CREATED.
Jackson Carter Design Build and Jackson Ridge Retreat are looking for a talented content creator, multimedia producer, editor, storyteller, and social media manager to help us build and grow an interconnected portfolio of brands.
You'll work through Badger Media, our privately owned in-house media company, producing and managing content for our businesses, brands, founders, and future media ventures.
This is not an agency job where you'll bounce between dozens of unrelated clients.
And this is not a traditional marketing position.
We're looking for someone who understands the entire content process:
Find the story. Capture it. Create it. Edit it. Package it. Publish it. Grow it. Analyze it. Then make the next one better.
You need to be equally comfortable behind a camera, inside an editing timeline, developing a content strategy, publishing across multiple accounts, and digging into analytics to understand why something worked — or why it didn't.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOCUMENTING
You'll have access to actual businesses being built and operated in real time.
One day you might be filming a high-end residential construction or remodeling project somewhere in Chicagoland.
The next you could be traveling to Hocking Hills to document the development of a luxury cabin resort, producing a podcast, interviewing someone, capturing founder and entrepreneurial content, attending an industry event, or editing a long-form YouTube episode.
You'll create content around:
- High-end residential construction and design
- Luxury hospitality and cabin development
- Entrepreneurship and business growth
- Behind-the-scenes company operations
- Leadership, success, failure, risk, and lessons learned
- Project transformations
- Team and company culture
- Travel and events
- Podcast conversations and interviews
- New businesses and brands as they're developed
No two weeks will look exactly the same.
THE JOB
This position has four major components:
CREATE
You'll capture high-quality photo, video, audio, interviews, project updates, behind-the-scenes moments, and spontaneous content opportunities.
You'll spend time in the field.
That means jobsites, offices, client projects, Hocking Hills, events, conferences, podcast recordings, travel days, and wherever else the story happens.
You should be able to walk into a location and recognize what's worth capturing without waiting for someone to hand you a shot list.
We want someone who sees stories.
PRODUCE & EDIT
You'll turn what we capture into finished media across short-form and long-form formats.
That includes:
- Long-form YouTube videos
- YouTube Shorts
- Instagram Reels
- TikTok
- Facebook Reels
- LinkedIn content
- Podcast episodes
- Podcast clips
- Interviews
- Project stories
- Photography
- Thumbnails
- Graphics
- Captions
- Titles and descriptions
- Scripts, hooks, and outlines
You should understand framing, lighting, audio, editing, pacing, music, storytelling, hooks, retention, titles, thumbnails, and packaging.
And you should understand one of the most important principles behind this position:
ONE SHOOT. MULTIPLE STORIES. MULTIPLE BRANDS. MULTIPLE PLATFORMS.
A four-hour shoot shouldn't produce one Reel.
A single project visit could become a long-form YouTube story, multiple Shorts and Reels, construction education, before-and-after content, founder commentary, LinkedIn material, photography, Google Business Profile updates, and a library of footage for future use.
You need to understand how to find multiple stories inside the same raw material.
OWN & GROW THE CHANNELS
This is where this position goes beyond videography or content creation.
You will help own the channels.
We're looking for someone with a deep understanding of social media and why content performs.
You'll be responsible for:
- Developing platform-specific content strategies
- Building and maintaining content calendars
- Publishing and scheduling content
- Managing multiple brands and accounts
- Creating and launching new channels
- Writing captions, descriptions, titles, and hooks
- Creating and testing thumbnails
- Monitoring comments and engagement
- Tracking analytics and audience growth
- Studying watch time and retention
- Testing content formats
- Identifying trends and opportunities
- Understanding platform changes
- Reviewing what's working and what isn't
- Continuously improving our strategy based on actual performance
You should understand that YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn are different platforms with different audiences and different rules.
Simply reposting the exact same piece everywhere isn't a strategy.
We want someone who understands the difference between making content and building an audience.
You need to know how to do both.
MANAGE OUR LOCAL CONTENT PRESENCE
You'll also handle the content side of our Google Business Profiles and similar platforms.
That includes regular project photography, posts and updates, maintaining fresh location-specific content, supporting our local digital presence, and coordinating appropriate content between businesses and markets.
It's not the heart of the job, but it's part of owning our overall content ecosystem.
HELP US BUILD AND LAUNCH A PODCAST
We're developing a new long-form podcast centered around entrepreneurship, construction, business, growth, risk, failure, success, and conversations with people who have actually built something.
You'll help spearhead its development from the ground up.
That includes helping with:
- Show format and creative direction
- Episode concepts
- Guest and topic research
- Show outlines
- Recording workflows
- Audio and video production
- Editing
- Thumbnails and graphics
- Publishing and distribution
- YouTube
- Podcast platforms
- Short-form clips
- Social channels
- Audience development
- Analytics and growth
You won't be inheriting an established podcast.
You'll help us build one.
THE BIGGER OPPORTUNITY
Badger Media is our privately owned media company and is being developed as the content and media engine behind our businesses, founders, and future ventures.
You'll initially work heavily across:
Jackson Carter Design Build — residential design-build, remodeling, additions, new construction, and other construction projects.
Jackson Ridge Retreat — the development, construction, launch, and operation of a luxury cabin resort in Hocking Hills, Ohio.
Founder & Entrepreneurial Content — real-world content around building businesses, leadership, entrepreneurship, construction, risk, success, failure, and growth.
Podcast & Long-Form Media — helping develop an entirely new media property from zero.
And there will be more.
We're not looking for someone who wants to make posts for us for the next five years.
We're looking for someone who wants the opportunity to **help build the media operation itself.
Pay: $55,000.00 - $68,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
