Content Creator

A note from Tom, who started this

Pepper Pong wasn't born in a boardroom. It was hacked together in a garage out of scrap parts from other games and a weird collection of foam balls. It wasn't a product. It wasn't even called Pepper Pong. It was just The Game, and we played it everywhere.

We loved ping pong. Then ping pong got old. Too serious, too breakable, too loud, too bro. Coffin-sized table. Busted balls. Ten minutes of interest and ten years of dust.

So we kept the three things worth keeping, which were competition, camaraderie and connection, and threw out the rest. The foam did something we didn't plan for. Rallies stretched to 30, 40, 50 shots. Matches stayed close. Grandparents started beating grandkids. The guy who doesn't do games started demanding best of seven.

Then life threw me a harder match. In 2016 I got sober. Toughest rally of my life, and the most important one I'll ever win. It reminded me what I actually valued, which was real people and real laughter. By 2020, in a world starving for connection, I decided to bring The Game to the world. Not for profit. For purpose.

People ask whether I went on Shark Tank to raise money or to market the game. Neither. I went to talk about declining human connection. Pepper Pong just happens to be one joyful way to solve it.

That's the job here. Turn every table into center court, and every gathering into a tournament of unforgettable moments.

Tom Filippini, Founder

Where we are

Six years ago this was a foam ball bouncing around a garage, surviving on 100-plus design iterations and 20-plus factory prototypes. On 22 November 2024 it aired on Shark Tank, Todd Graves came on as a partner, and Tom repaid his entire investment inside the first business hour.

Since then we have sold more than 100,000 sets, people have played over a million games, and we sold out three times in three months. You can find us in Dick's Sporting Goods and Scheels, and we ship to all 50 states. Reviews sit at 4.9 stars and under 1% of sets ever come back, which for something most people buy as a gift is the number we are quietly proudest of.

Where we're going

Right now Pepper Pong is a product. The plan is to make it a sport.

That starts with the app, which ships this year. Set a phone on the table and it runs the bracket, keeps score, and turns the result into a ranking you can actually climb. It is probably the first app ever designed not to be sticky, on the grounds that every second you spend looking at it is a second you are not playing. The long joke we are engineering is a grandmother who plays every Sunday outranking someone who does this professionally.

Around that sits a creator program, a growing retail business, and Rally for Recovery, which has put more than 1,000 sets into recovery centers and community spaces across all 50 states. That one is not marketing. It is where the game came from.

How we work

We are small, so the roles are wide and nobody is going to hand you a brief. You get a number that is yours and enough room to go get it, which is the good news and the bad news in one sentence. We move quickly, we use AI heavily and without ceremony, and we would rather hear the thing that didn't work at the start of the meeting than at the end of the quarter.

The role

We are seeking a Content Creator to make the content, not just plan it. You will shoot, appear in, and edit short-form video for paid social and our organic channels, producing a steady volume of assets that show real people actually playing.

This role is ideal for a self-sufficient creator who can take a concept and return a finished cut without a crew, and who is comfortable on camera.

Why this role matters right now

The hardest thing to fake in our category is a real room of people having a genuinely good time, and it is also the thing that sells. We need someone who can produce that footage at volume rather than waiting on a shoot day, and who can hand the paid team enough variations to actually learn something.

What You'll Do

  • Shoot and edit short-form video for Meta, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram
  • Appear on camera as a host, demonstrator, or voice for a portion of the content
  • Produce multiple hooks, openings, and variations of each concept to support creative testing
  • Capture product, lifestyle, and gameplay footage that can be reused across paid and organic
  • Turn briefs from the creative strategy team into finished assets on schedule
  • Maintain an organized footage library so past material can be recut into new ads
  • Stay current on platform formats and trends, and bring ideas rather than waiting for direction

Must-Have Requirements

  • 2+ years creating short-form video content, with a portfolio of work that performed
  • Strong self-shooting skills, including framing, lighting, and clean audio in real locations
  • Advanced editing ability in CapCut, Premiere Pro, or comparable tools
  • Comfort and presence on camera
  • Understanding of what makes a paid social hook work in the first three seconds
  • Ability to manage a high volume of output without quality dropping
  • Reliable access to your own camera or phone setup and editing equipment