Creative Director – Social & Content

Creative Director – Social & Content

Requirements

• At least 10+ years of industry experience concepting, writing, and producing social video series for a brand, publisher or platform.
• At least 5 years of management experience, managing creatives in the development of digital content.
• Strong creative portfolio highlighting relevant/category experience and industry award winning work
• Solid verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to all levels of clients
• Knowledge of marketing, all forms of advertising, and digital experiences, with proven conceptual and design abilities
• Experience working with large teams in client-facing role
• Excellent written and presentation skills
• Able to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Generate innovative ideas across all existing and emerging platforms and inspire colleagues to create world-class, pioneering work and content.
• Lead a team of social video creatives who concept, script, produce and edit social content across all client platforms (YouTube, X, TikTok, Pinterest, Instagram, etc)
• Guide, teach and push members of the team in developing concepts that are socially relevant and on brand for clients.
• Generate ideas to help pitch and win new business
• Lead effective team meetings to both organize high quantity of work, but also to inspire and motivate team members.
• Work with internal and external strategic partners to create products using the most current industry best practices
• Set an example for the larger team through setting high creative standards and overall involvement in the larger agency initiatives.
• May develop junior teams with careful and consistent feedback, mentorship and model behavior
• May train and supervise team members. Oversee their creative efforts to ensure they are on strategy, on schedule, and are meeting creative standards.
• Oversee career development of junior team members. Perform reviews to determine strengths, growth opportunities, goals, and ambitions.
• Oversee and provide thought leadership in the assessment of existing properties for content value, relevance, aesthetics, branding and overall experience.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team on implementation feasibility to ensure conceptual ideas are realizable.
• Build confidence with clients through compelling presentation of content ideas.

Preferred Qualifications

• Creative: Putting together two things to create a third thing no one’s ever seen before
• Productive: Acting on ideas to make things happen and get stuff done
• Collaborative: Focused on the greater good versus personal gain
• Adaptable: Ready and able to embrace change