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Social Creative Director
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Social Creative Director – Social Media Agency
Location: London
Work type: Hybrid (3 days in office 2 from home)
Work flexibility: Open to candidates seeking 4 or 5 days a week.
Salary Level: From £70,000 - £90,000
Please note that we require 100% agency-side experience for this role, we aren't seeking a Social Media Manager or Strategist, we need a Social-First Creative Director
Do you have at least five years’ experience leading on the creative ideation and direction for social leading social media agencies, as an ACD, or Creative Director?
Have you developed and pitched big creative ideas that deliver impact across organic social, with a strong understanding of video production, always-on and in-platform social campaigns?
Are you a senior creative leader, confident presenting ideas to new clients, inspiring internal teams and raising standards across every piece of social content?
If you answered "YES" we want to speak to you.
Summary
We are looking for an ambitious Creative Director who already has a wealth of experience as a Social Creative Director (or as an ACD) the role will join a great London based social media agency who are at a pivotal moment in their growth.
As they reposition the agency and scale rapidly, they are seeking to add a senior leader who can take their creative output to the next level, strengthen their strategic thinking and elevate the quality of everything they produce across all creative social media campaigns.
This is a key Strategic Leadership Team appointment.
The Role
The role of Social Creative Director will shape and lead the creative vision of the agency across all accounts. With a clear focus on social first thinking and organic content, you will ensure that every campaign is culturally relevant, strategically sound and executed to the highest standard.
You will work closely with account, strategy, paid and production teams to develop standout creative that delivers measurable results for clients. While organic social is at the heart of their offering, you will also bring strong knowledge of paid amplification, performance, creative and videography, ensuring ideas translate effectively across formats.
You will line-manage a small but growing studio team, providing direction, feedback and mentorship, while maintaining creative input across key accounts. You will also play a leading role in pitches, new business and agency positioning.
What We Need:
Creative credentials
- Strong video art direction experience is essential. You need to be comfortable directing video-led creative and giving clear, constructive creative feedback to an in-house studio team.
- Solid design literacy. We don't need you to be a hands-on designer, but we do need a strong visual eye and enough design knowledge to confidently critique and elevate the work.
- Big campaign thinking + repeatable formats. We need someone who can demonstrate both large-scale, integrated campaign thinking and tactical, episodic and repeatable social/content formats that can work week in, week out.
- A distinct creative process. You should bring your own methods, frameworks and ways of working rather than simply slotting into what already exists - we want someone who can elevate and enhance the social campaigns we deliver, enhancing our approach to creative and supporting processes that work well.
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Social & cultural fluency
- Need to live in the feed. We need someone who genuinely understands social platforms, internet culture, emerging formats and how people consume and share content.
- Wide cultural knowledge and curiosity. We need someone who has a broad frame of reference across culture, entertainment, design, music, fashion, sport, internet culture, etc., and be able to use that knowledge to inspire the wider team.
- Able to connect cultural moments to creative opportunities. Not just someone who knows what is happening, but someone who can translate cultural touchpoints into relevant, ownable ideas.
Leadership & management
- Proven management experience. We need someone who has led creative teams and know how to get the best out of different disciplines and personalities. Whether it's content creators, videographers, designers or copywriters etc.
- Able to inspire, not just critique. Feedback should make the work we produce and the people producing it even better. We want someone who can boost confidence and encourage more creative thinking. (Not someone who likes to do the "norm")
- Low ego, highly collaborative. We don’t want a Creative Director who needs everything to be their idea. They should be confident enough to champion other people’s thinking and build on it - encouraging them.
- Charisma and presence. Someone people naturally want to listen to, work with and be inspired by.
Agency & client experience
- Meaningful agency experience and evidence of staying power. Ideally, you’ve spent substantial periods within agencies rather than consistently moving from role to role. As we want someone who can really help to shape the future of our creative offering (and be part of our Senior Leadership Team
- Client Facing: You should be comfortable being in the room with senior clients, presenting and selling creative ideas, handling challenge and receiving feedback. (without taking it personally)
- Strong pitching experience. You need to be able to articulate the thinking behind an idea and bring clients with them, engaging them throughout.
- Not purely a behind-the-scenes creative/freelancer profile. We need evidence that you've operated as a visible creative leader with accountability for the work and the client relationship.
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Fit with the existing leadership team
- We’re looking for someone who complements and improves what we already have within the agency, rather than duplicating it or competing with it.
- We would love someone who can bring something new to the table, including new creative perspectives, processes, references and ways of raising the standards creatively and strategically.
- There should be a sense that you can challenge us constructively, while being equally comfortable being challenged yourself - in an open and transparent environment.
- Ultimately, you should make the existing creative function more ambitious, more consistent and better equipped to deliver brilliant work at scale.
What is our focus?
This agency is going from strength to strength with some huge opportunities which will drive even further growth for you over the next 1-2 years. The clients they work with vary considerably but are notably “family friendly” and “social with purpose” focused campaigns.
This agency will offer
- A competitive senior salary, dependent on experience. (which is negotiable)
- 25 days paid annual leave plus a day off for your birthday.
- 2 weeks work from anywhere per year.
- Regular social events including summer and Christmas parties, monthly socials and team activities.
- The opportunity to shape and lead the creative direction of a fast-growing agency working with brands across multiple sectors.
- A senior leadership role with real influence over the future of the agency and its direction.
The Social Associate Creative Director will report directly to the Founders and sit on the Strategic Leadership Team.
We are currently hybrid working from their London based office three days per week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday)
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