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About the Role
This is a hands-on creative leadership role for someone who lives and breathes platform-native content, is confident leading shoots end-to-end, and brings design/visual discipline background as well as the ability to shape ideas. You’ll take ownership of content delivery, proactively contribute to business opportunities, and play a key role in shaping the future of our creative department. You will be responsible for leading small and mid-scale productions from concept to post-production, working closely with wider teams to ensure work is culturally sharp.
Responsibilities
- Lead small and mid-scale productions from concept to post-production.
- Work closely with wider teams to ensure work is culturally sharp.
- Generate reactive and proactive ideas, ranging from quick lo-fi content to large-scale productions.
- Lead creative ideation, art direction, and craft-focused execution in collaboration with Editorial and Production teams.
- Capture and edit content on a daily basis to create assets that feel native to the platform.
- Push the bar with novel execution techniques across motion, filming and editing.
- Support the wider team in extending "big ideas" into social-first campaigns.
- Create thumb-stopping work that cuts through the noise.
- Take ownership of work, creating client-facing decks, and presenting internally and externally.
- Oversee multi-disciplinary teams, acting as a mentor to upskill the wider department, and maintaining excellence across all outputs.
- Stay on the pulse of social trends and consumer behaviors.
- Ideate simple but original ideas at pace and have the technical skills to execute them immediately.
- Translate complex campaign thinking into bespoke social executions.
- Identify reactive opportunities and turn community management moments into creative briefs.
- Develop your own ideas that hit a brand strategy and can sell them effectively in a deck.
- Take on briefs from someone else.
- Manage and mentor a cross-functional team.
- Introduce new workflows and foster a strong team culture while staying focused on creative excellence.
- Use data to improve content.
Requirements
- Previously been a senior social designer, senior content creator, or senior social-first creative.
- Portfolio demonstrates high-quality, self-produced social video content that is both on-brand and entertaining.
- Deep knowledge of hooks, pacing, and transitions.
- Proven track record of creating thumb-stopping work that cuts through the noise.
- Thrived in taking ownership of work.
- Consistently stayed on the pulse of social trends and consumer behaviors.
- Proven leader who balances creative oversight with hands-on delivery.
- Champion social-first craft across ideation, design, and emerging tech.
- Possess a deep understanding of design disciplines including layout, typography, and motion.
- Proven experience straddling multiple disciplines.
- Conceptual thinker who can identify reactive opportunities and turn community management moments into creative briefs.
- Comfortable developing your own ideas that hit a brand strategy and can sell them effectively in a deck.
- Solution-driven leader who takes full accountability for results.
- Understanding of analytics and how to use data to improve content.
- Constant curiosity for the fast-moving, social landscape.
Skills
- Social media marketing
- Influencer marketing
- Platform-native content creation
- Shoot leadership
- Design/visual discipline
- Content delivery
- Creative ideation
- Art direction
- Craft-focused execution
- Editorial collaboration
- Production collaboration
- Content capture
- Content editing
- Motion graphics
- Filming
- Editing
- Client-facing deck creation
- Presentation
- Team leadership
- Mentoring
- Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop)
- Mobile-first tools (CapCut)
- Design disciplines (layout, typography, motion)
- Conceptual thinking
- Analytics interpretation
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance
- WAS Passport scheme
- Work From Anywhere scheme
About the Company
- Largest global socially-led creative agency.
- Unrivalled social media and influencer marketing expertise.
- Over 1,200 people in four continents.
- Deliver a global perspective to clients.
- Multi award-winning agency (Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby, Shorty Awards).
- Helped Amazon Music, Activision and Adidas deliver innovative campaigns.
- Educate the wider industry through Instagram publication The Feed.
- Track culture at the speed of social.
- Hosted events with 6,500+ attendees.
- Reports garnered more than 20 million views.
Equal Opportunity
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social.
- Transparent about the changes that are needed.
- Focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry.
- Strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL.
- Charter for Change in the UK details focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2026.
- Inclusion at every level is crucial to creative innovation and success.
- Create a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging.
- Welcome and encourage talent from ALL backgrounds.
- Committed to creating a representative team that can deliver creative excellence.
- If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via recruitment@wearesocial.net.