Creative Director - Social

Big Spaceship

• $160K — $180K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-10+ years of creative experience in social and full-service campaigns
  • Deep understanding of social platforms, activations, and creator partnerships
  • Entrepreneurial spirit with ambition for innovative work
  • Strong conceptual and strategic skills for multi-channel execution
  • Experience managing and mentoring creative teams
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills
  • Ability to adapt brand voice creatively across various audiences

Responsibilities

  • Lead the creative vision across multi-brand clients, ensuring quality and consistency
  • Develop culturally relevant ideas rooted in strategic thinking for client interactions
  • Hands-on involvement in shooting and editing content, especially for social platforms
  • Inspire and oversee a team of creatives to maintain a unified creative vision
  • Bring versatility in creative expression across different tones and concepts
  • Collaborate with strategy, account, production, and data teams to drive impactful ideas
  • Direct and elevate creative output across various mediums and executions

Benefits

  • Dynamic work environment that encourages innovation and creativity
  • Opportunities for professional growth and team mentorship
  • Access to a diverse range of clients and projects
  • Flexibility in creative expression and project management
  • Collaborative atmosphere across multiple disciplines
Full Job Description
We're seeking a Creative Director who brings range, cultural fluency, and an adaptable creative voice, and who lives in the feed. This person is ambitious about category-defining work and obsessed with doing what has never been done. They know how to read the room, move comfortably between different kinds of brands and audiences, and bring ideas to life across social, creators, events, and integrated campaigns. You'll be equally comfortable shaping the big idea, getting hands-on with the work, presenting to clients, and leading a team of creatives and creators.

Roles + Responsibilities:
  • Lead the creative vision and process across a multi-brand client, maintaining a high bar for the quality and consistency of the work across organic and paid social, creator programs, events, and integrated campaigns
  • Develop and champion ideas that are culturally relevant and strategically grounded with a passion for social-first thinking, serving as a confident and thoughtful lead in client meetings, presentations, and pitches
  • Be hands-on including the ability to shoot and edit content on an iPhone and understand what makes social content feel native to the platform
  • Oversee and inspire a team of creatives and creators, helping them do their best work while maintaining a cohesive creative point of view and working within an IAT
  • Bring a flexible creative voice and the ability to move between different tones, from playful and unexpected to elevated and aspirational
  • Partner with strategy, account, production and data teams to turn briefs and social performance insights into strong creative ideas
  • Work fluidly across art, copy, design, creator and post-production with a strong point of view leading creative direction to ensure breakthrough creative that drives business impact for brands

Requirements
  • 8-10+ years of creative experience with experience leading both social always-on and full-service campaign work with comfort creating and editing social-first content yourself, including shooting on an iPhone
  • Deep understanding of social platforms, stunts and activations including organic, paid social and leveraging creators and partnerships to drive maximum engagement
  • Bring an entrepreneurial spirit and real ambition to make epic work, pushing brands toward ideas that have never been done in their category
  • Strong conceptual and strategic abilities, with the ability to translate an idea across multiple channels and executions with social-first thinking and a publishing mindset with franchises, social series, stunt activations and unexpected partnerships
  • Experience managing and mentoring creative teams and/or multidisciplinary creator teams with multiple stakeholders and hundreds of assets at scale
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the poise and judgment to build trust with clients and act as a consiglierie to develop the best work
  • Proven ability to collaborate across creative, strategy, account, production, and other disciplines
  • Strong understanding of brand voice and the ability to adapt creatively to different brands and audiences

Benefits

The salary band for this role is $160,000 - $180,000. Where a prospective new hire's base salary will fall within this band depends on several factors including their qualifications and experience, the skill level required in the role, market rates, and the salaries of existing crew members at SPCSHP within the same role to maintain equity.

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