About the Role
This role is responsible for being a strategic visual powerhouse and mentor within the team. You bridge the gap between high-level client strategy and flawless creative execution, crafting nuanced, sophisticated visual stories that solve complex business challenges. Most importantly, the work you create demonstrates your strong social media craft and gets people talking.
Responsibilities
- Contribute strategically to large-scale campaigns, ensuring that every design choice is nuanced, sophisticated, and aligned with long-term brand goals.
- Present creative ideas directly to clients with confidence; decode ambiguous client feedback into actionable, high-priority tasks for the broader creative team.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining extreme focus and quality under the pressure of shifting requirements.
- Mentor junior and mid-level designers, by providing constructive feedback, and fostering a culture of creative excellence.
- Confidently defend sophisticated design choices to senior leadership while navigating constraints like budget, evolving scopes, and brand integrity.
- Craft premium motion graphics and video edits that will live across multiple areas on social media channels, working within brand guidelines while pushing for design excellence.
- Identify trends and opportunities as they emerge in social that stay true to our brands.
- Create a wide range of content, from photography to videography, design, and platform tools that always suits the client, moment and idea.
- Ability to switch between styles while still experimenting and looking for unique opportunities to make work ownable and talked about.
- Ideate, build, shoot, and edit effective stories that match the quality of each social platform.
- Design visually engaging presentations, create mockups & light retouching as needed that help sell creative ideas to top clients in the industry.
- Work collaboratively with a large team of creatives from ideation to execution, helping to ensure ideas are created and brought to life.
- Identify and propose innovative brand activations using generative AI, transforming emerging tech capabilities into tangible creative opportunities for clients.
- Leverage tools to develop production ready visual concepts and storyboards for major pitches and client presentations.
- Utilize Gemini for Google Slides to transform creative briefs into compelling, professionally designed presentation decks rapidly.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a design, motion, or editing role, with a portfolio showcasing an understanding of short-form content best practices and channels.
- Experience working in a fast paced environment, and managing multiple projects at a time.
- Expert-level mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite and advanced knowledge of motion/video workflows.
- Comfortable collaborating across departments, build relationships and navigate team dynamics.
- Experience with luxury brands is a plus.
Skills
- Motion graphics
- Video editing
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Generative AI
- Photography
- Videography
- Design
- Presentation design
- Mockup creation
- Light retouching
- Storyboarding
- Gemini for Google Slides
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Passport program for global work opportunities
- Celebration of wins and losses
- Focus on making a difference
- Snacks
- Hybrid work models
- Flexible hours
- Work from anywhere policy
- Generous vacation
- Agency summer days
- Modern co-working spaces
- Coffee & snack bars
- Dogs allowed
- Dedicated private wellness room
- Regular team social events
- In-house learning & development sessions
- Annual career and growth conversations
- Access to internal network of opportunities
- Focus on developing and recruiting BIMPOC Talent
- Internal EDI group(s), programs & initiatives
- Flexible benefits
- Personal wellness spending account
- Comprehensive mental health support
- Access to a virtual mental health therapy clinic
- Access to health clinicians 24/7
About the Company
- A creative agency powered by social connections.
- Thrives on what’s trending and creating campaigns that get people buzzing.
- Proud to have played a part in some of the most culturally relevant campaigns of the decade for brands like McDonald’s, Adidas, Universal Studios, and YouTube.
- We are the first, largest, most awarded socially-led creative agency in the world, connecting you to 1,300+ like-minded professionals around the world.
- An innovative and entrepreneurial work environment that promotes ingenuity and individuality - with the best of colleagues, and the best of clients.
- We're part of the Plus Company - the Entrepreneurial Network!
- Plus Company is a unique partnership of forward-thinking creative agencies.
- As a network, we unabashedly believe anything is possible.
Equal Opportunity
- We celebrate diverse perspectives and experiences.
- We welcome unique voices and talents, especially those not traditionally embraced by advertising.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on age, colour, ability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
- Embracing difference is what makes We Are Social what it is.
- We pride ourselves on our inclusive and accessible workplace.
- If you need any accommodations during the interview process to make it work for you, let us know.
