About the Role
As a Senior Social Strategist, you will sit at the intersection of technology, entertainment, sport, and modern culture, shaping the social presence for an AI platform and a hardware brand. This role is for a sharp, agile strategist who relies on original thinking to challenge the status quo and capture the internet's attention.
Responsibilities
- Translate brand visions and sponsorship properties into platform-native social strategies.
- Architect modern campaigns across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram using formats in unexpected ways.
- Serve as the daily strategic anchor for creative teams and makers.
- Champion different ways of thinking during the collaborative process of drafting, testing, and refining ideas.
- Ensure content fuels a wider, earned PR news cycle.
- Nurture and expand an elite network of creators, cultural figures, tech-pioneers, and athletes.
- Collaborate directly with creators to demonstrate the disruptive power of AI technology and brand style.
Requirements
- Must have a granular, native understanding of modern social channels, algorithms, and formatting.
- Must love rolling up sleeves and getting deep into the daily mechanics of social execution.
- Must steward work through real-time optimization, distribution, and community engagement.
- Must reject the standard industry template and bring innate curiosity to think differently.
- Must thrive on rapid iteration, live prototyping of ideas, and the autonomy to pivot at the speed of the feed.
- Must effortlessly navigate the worlds of global football, lifestyle, travel, and mainstream entertainment.
- Must possess a genuine curiosity for how generative AI can be creatively weaponized.
- Must be comfortable with ambiguity and energized by momentum.
- Must be completely allergic to the corporate 'copy-and-paste' approach.
- Must be comfortable dissecting a real-time moment as mapping out an AI integration or travel activation.
- Must know what makes people share and engage because it feels entirely fresh.
- Must have a native fascination with innovation.
- Must actively experiment with AI to find new creative possibilities.
Skills
- Social Strategy
- AI
- Generative AI
- Content Creation
- Public Relations
- Community Engagement
- Creator Management
- Digital Marketing
- Brand Strategy
- Campaign Development
- Content Optimization
- Content Distribution
Location
- London, Sea Containers
Work Type
- Fixed-Term (12 months)
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
- Bupa Healthcare
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
- Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
- 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
- Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life Assurance
About the Company
- Ogilvy, part of WPP, has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas for 75 years.
- Ogilvy builds on its legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating across advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities.
- Ogilvy has experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries.
- Ogilvy ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC.
- Ogilvy delivers creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities.
- Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP).
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
- WPP unites media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and strategic counsel.
- WPP is powered by exceptional talent and its agentic marketing platform, WPP Open.
- Ogilvy's people are at the heart of what they do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.
- Ogilvy believes in building powerful teams with purpose and curates transformative initiatives that make its commitment to fairness and equity a reality.
- Ogilvy's ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities it serves.
Equal Opportunity
- Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to or regard to particular characteristics.
- Ogilvy is committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
- If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact accommodations@ogilvy.com.
