Job Description

Where: Must be located in EST- from a North America State

Type: Full time salaried role

Social Element is a global social media agency connecting brands and people socially. Our core purpose is to make better social for brands and social better for society. 

About You

You are a Senior Art Director with strong ideation skills , responsible for shipping exceptional social-first creative content and campaigns for our clients. 

With at least 8 years experience in the advertising, marketing or communications industry, you are a hands-on, visually-focused creative who tries strong strategic thinking into ideation. You have your finger on the pulse of culture, social-first and people-first ideas that truly create unmissable, impactful social moments for audiences: both online and IRL. 

You plan, ideate, create and execute exceptional ongoing social content for our clients, as well as ideate big, creative territories and fame-driving, impactful campaign ideas. These can range from organic, to paid, proactive to reactive. From big category-defining ideas to smaller community-driven moments, you are comfortable flexing your creative and art directional skills to bring best in class social-first ideas to life.

As part of the global Creative & Innovation team at Social Element, you are guided by the Global Creative & Innovation Director, collaborating with other creatives, strategists, influencer teams, client service teams, project managers to ship social-first ideas that tie into our clients business needs. You also help shape our output as a Social Element brand and build our movement to Make Social Better. 

Art direction, craft and attention to detail is important to you, but you can equally dial up or down high level craft or low-fi designs, small screens or large screens depending on the client and campaign. You think outside the box when it comes to concepting, creating and delivering socially-native content and campaigns for a variety of clients and driving engagement with a brand’s community.

We might work in social media, but our purpose is to help brands socialize, and that will include activations both URL and IRL. This means also working across concept, art direction and design for new and existing brand campaigns and being able to use a brands guidelines and agency strategy input, to ideate and deliver 360 / full social-first campaigns.

Your proactive nature means that you have a lot to bring to the table and are always looking for ways to introduce new concepts and ideas - including self initiated projects and new lines of business.

You will co-report into the Creative & Innovation Director and the VP Of Project Management and work cross-functionally alongside social creatives, project managers, content creators, account directors and social media managers.

Role and responsibilities include:

• Day-to-day conception and creation of on-trend and highly shareable social content and ideas that drives engagement and connection with the brand's community. Including stills, videos, GIFs, preferably with experience in motion / animation.

• Work with our global creative team to build Social Brand Guidelines for our clients using their existing brand guidelines and translating them into social-first guidance for our own content creation team, as well as the clients teams - while always looking to improve a brand’s social first-approach in a visual capacity.

• Capitalizing on real-time cultural opportunities from our social media management teams by turning them into social-first content for named brands.

• Supporting your creative recommendations through strong presentation and communication skills.

• Maintaining social fluency - understanding social trends and nuances as they emerge, and being always ‘switched on’ to new design and creative ideas for the brands we have at the agency.

• Stay current with social platforms trends capabilities and offerings (including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook.)

• Save all final content assets onto the Social Element server for easy access for anyone within the agency.

• When needed, manage the creation of case study decks and videos, with the support of motion/ animation experts/ freelancers.

• Ensure that DE&I is baked into everything we do and champion this within creativity in the agency, and also within the agency's creative output

• Working collaboratively with strategy, PM, creatives & SMM to concept content for brands, while also being the visual lead on look & feel, and design.

About you

• You are able to ideate, strategize, design, create content, and visually support and lead the teams from conception to completion - stepping in to wear multiple hats.:

  • Lead and manage the visual direction of projects, from concept through to completion, ensuring alignment with brand and project goals.

  • Ideate and strategize creative concepts that resonate with target audiences, blending innovation with practical execution.

  • Design and create high-quality visual assets for various media ensuring consistency across all channels.

• You are comfortable in Adobe Creative Cloud and understand the ins and outs of creative tools to enhance creative outputs including still images, gifs, graphics, and content creation.

• An ideas person, able to look at the big picture, but also see the small details and always be solution oriented.

• Can work with some levels of ambiguity, while always having your own solutions and ideas to overcome missing informations & issues.

• A thorough understanding of the evolving social media landscape, with a continuous thirst to learn more.

• A joyful collaborator and solution orientated person with a positive & forward thinking outlook.

• Ability to set clear objectives, timelines and deadlines for own work, while also knowing how to be a balanced project lead and know when it’s appropriate to push deadlines in order to avoid the work suffering.

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite applications.

• Preferred skills in Canva, Capcut and other mobile editing tools when needed.

• Optional skills in AI image generation (Firefly), and strong content creation abilities in the form of low-fi (UGC style/ staged reality) and high quality product photography.

• A strong drive and dedication to contribute to our clients brand, the agency and the work, as if they were your own company.

• Bring vast experience of international markets with experience working with brands across North America.

Benefits

Please note these benefits are for US based employees only

Remote/Flexible working (occasional travel)

️ 33 days of holiday (including the bank holidays)

Birthday off

✨ Annual Occasion Day off for an important event (eg moving house, getting married)

❤️ 1 Volunteer day off

Paid Sick time off

⚕️ Group Insurance Medical plans with generous employer contribution, including one plan that is employer covered

Dental and Vision plans

FSA & HSA Options , with employer contribution to HSA on select plans

401k with employer matching

️ Employer Paid Long-Term/Short-Term Disability

‍ ‍ Enhanced family friendly policies

Career Break: After 1 year's service, can take between 4 weeks and 1 year unpaid leave.

‍⚕️ Wellbeing Support

️ Flexible Fridays (Working half day)

Our Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Commitment

We welcome applications from diverse and under-represented groups regardless of their background.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so even if you feel you don’t fulfil all the requirements, we encourage you to still apply — we’d love to hear from you!

We value having divergent thinkers who bring various experiences and viewpoints to the table at The Social Element. We strongly encourage members of underrepresented groups to apply.

We are also able to make reasonable adjustments throughout the full recruitment process so we invite you to identify any additional support that you may require to ensure you are supported throughout the full process.

✍️ How To Apply

If you're ready to make your mark with us, upload your resume and a cover letter explaining your professional experience and why you're excited to join our team. Don't forget to include the specified details in your cover letter/video to ensure your application gets processed!

***If you would prefer to submit your application in a different format, please feel free to get in touch with us at talent_tse@thesocialelement.agency and we will be happy to assist you in any way we can. We will be unable to process applications via this inbox.

Excited to embark on this journey with us? We can't wait to hear from you! ❤️

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