Overview
Videographer Jobs in Manchester, UK at Soar With Us
Function: Content Capture | Cinematography | Visual Execution
Responsibility: Capture high-quality, performance-driven content across ads and social formats
Reports to: Producer (day-to-day) | Video Director (on set)
Location: Full-time | Hambi Media MCR Studio, Central Manchester (1 day in studio / 3 days on set per week)
Compensation: £35,000–£40,000 + Benefit Scheme + 27 Days Paid Holiday + Private Healthcare
Overview
The Soar Group is one of the UK’s fastest-growing performance agency groups, home to three specialist agencies. On the inside, we work as one:
- Hambi Media:
Performance creative agency for Meta, delivering High Production, UGC, and Static ads. The UK’s largest performance creative division in the UK. - For You Advertising:
The UK’s #1 independent Tik Tok agency, specialising in Tik Tok paid media, Tik Tok Shop, and creator-led content at scale. - Soar With Us:
Paid social and paid search, managing media buying and growth strategy across the group’s client portfolio.
Together, the group manages over £100M in ad spend, works with category-leading D2C brands, and operates the UK’s largest Creative Strategy department with design, production, strategy, and UGC all under one roof.
What Sets Us Apart
- Nominated for Meta’s Creative Diversity Award 2025, the only independent agency recognised.
- Highest independent agency spend on Meta in 2025.
- Official Tik Tok Agency Partner, Creative Partner, and one of the only Tik Tok Shop Partners across UK and US.
- Two production studios (London and Manchester)
- Creators of D2C Diaries, one of the UK’s leading eCommerce podcasts
- Partnered with Meta, Tik Tok, Foreplay, and Triple Whale.
The Role
You’ll work alongside Directors and Producers to capture scroll-stopping content for Meta, Tik Tok and beyond. From studio to location shoots, you’ll bring technical precision and a sharp understanding of what makes social content convert.
This isn’t a passive camera operation role. The best Videographers at Hambi bring genuine creative & strategic contribution to every set: thoughtful framing, strong composition, lighting that serves the concepts strategy, and an instinct for what makes content stop a scroll. Technical excellence and performance awareness go hand in hand. If you get a genuine buzz from seeing your footage drive real results for real brands, this role is for you.
- 3+ years’ experience as a videographer or camera operator, ideally in a commercial or advertising context
- Skilled with Sony FX3/FX6 or similar cinema cameras and professional lighting setups
- Strong understanding of short-form video formats and what drives conversion on social platforms
- Demonstrable familiarity with Meta and Tik Tok ad styles, hooks and pacing
- Experience shooting in both studio and location environments
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-first mindset
- Calm under pressure and consistently reliable on set
- A showreel or portfolio featuring commercial or branded work is required to be considered for this role
Preferred but not essential:
- Direct experience shooting content for D2C brands or paid social advertising campaigns
- Familiarity with tracking creative performance metrics (hook rate, watch time, CTR)
Responsibilities
- Operate Sony FX3 or equivalent cameras and professional lighting rigs to a consistently high standard across studio and location environments
- Manage audio capture with precision: microphone placement, monitoring levels, and flagging any issues to the Director in real time
- Shoot confidently across multiple formats: UGC, VSL, podcast, testimonial, branded content, B-roll and product shoots
- Execute the Director’s creative vision on set with technical precision – and bring your own creative eye to framing, composition and lighting decisions within that direction
- Apply a strong understanding of hooks, pacing, scene variety and platform‑specific visual trends to every shot
- Maintain accurate footage organisation, file naming conventions and metadata throughout and after every shoot — never leave set without a clean, complete handover ready for post‑production
- Support the Video Director and Producer during pre‑production: contributing to discussions on…
Title: Videographer
Company: Soar With Us
Location: Manchester, UK
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