We Are Social
Marketing and Advertising
SocialCreativeDirector
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“Social Creative Director at We Are Social. Skills: Social media marketing, Influencer marketing, Creative leadership, Audience behaviour. Define content strategy. Set vision”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver best-in-class work; Ensure work ahead curve; Improve performance
Industry & Context.
Data-driven decision making
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Leadership experience social content, Senior social creative background, Content strategist background, Leading large-scale accounts, Multi-market accounts, Global accounts, Deep understanding social platforms, Audience behaviour understanding, Content ecosystems understanding, Strategic mindset, Impeccable creative judgment, Building operational systems, Frameworks for high-volume teams, Leading major campaigns, Leadership people management, Multidisciplinary teams, Exceptional stakeholder management, Presentation skills, Calm in fast-paced environments, Decisive in fast-paced environments, Highly organised fast-paced environments, Data-informed, Use insights evolve strategy, Use insights improve performance, Embedded in music culture, Embedded in podcast culture, Embedded in internet culture, Instinct for culture direction
Nice to Have
Experience building workflows, Experience with publishing operations, Experience leading senior content leads, Experience translating business objectives, Experience managing fast-moving workstreams, Experience with global social campaigns, Experience with local social campaigns, Experience with live festival coverage, Experience with e-commerce campaigns, Experience spotting emerging trends
What You'll Do.
Define content strategy
Establish best practices
Guide overarching direction
Partner with stakeholders
Partner with agency leadership
Define long-term content strategy
Define creative frameworks
Maintain oversight day-to-day output
Maintain oversight social excellence
Maintain oversight creative quality
Influence senior stakeholders
Navigate fast-moving realities
Scale learnings across markets
Define creative vision
Translate vision into briefs
Translate vision into goals
Maintain oversight quality assurance
Uphold creative standard
Build publishing operations
Oversee publishing operations
Ensure consistency ways working
Ensure consistency editorial processes
Ensure consistency publishing standards
Act as senior strategic partner
Lead conversations content direction
Lead conversations performance
Lead conversations account growth
Lead senior content leads
Mentor senior content leads
Translate business objectives
Translate cultural insight
Translate platform behaviour
Ensure community insights inform creative
Ensure trends inform creative
Manage multiple workstreams
Manage global social campaigns
Manage local social campaigns
Maintain clarity under pressure
Maintain calm under pressure
Identify opportunities innovation
Identify opportunities growth
Identify opportunities evolution
Spot emerging cultural trends
Spot emerging platform trends
Spot emerging creator trends
Translate trends into opportunities
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Central team directors; Global team leads; Senior client stakeholders; Agency leadership; Multidisciplinary teams
Communication Scope
Presentation skills
Full Job Description
**Who We Are** We are the largest global socially-led creative agency, with unrivalled social media and influencer marketing expertise. With over 1,200 people in four continents, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture. We're proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help [Amazon Music](https://wearesocial.com/uk/case-study/amazon-music-the-fandom-studio/), [Activision](https://wearesocial.com/uk/case-study/activision-call-of-duty-grime-map/) and [Adidas](https://wearesocial.com/uk/case-study/adidas-pro-evo/) deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date. As well as creating for clients, we help educate the wider industry. Our Instagram publication[ The Feed](https://www.instagram.com/thefeed.global/?hl=en) tracks culture at the speed of social. 6,500 people registered or tuned into our events last year, and our reports garnered more than 20 million views. **The Opportunity ** Are you a social-first creative leader obsessed with audience behaviour and internet culture? Do you have a proven track record of setting up and governing content systems for major brands? Can you lead high-performing teams to best-in-class work across multiple markets and workstreams? We’re looking for a Social Creative Director to take the reins of one of the agency’s most significant entertainment accounts, overseeing the content strategy and creative direction for a dynamic, award-winning social programme. This is a leadership role on the account, responsible for defining how the brand shows up across social - setting the vision, establishing best practices and constantly raising the bar to ensure the work is always ahead of the curve. Sitting above a central team of directors and a global team of market creative leads, you’ll guide the overarching direction of the account while partnering closely with senior
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