Creative Director - Social Focused - FTC 12 months

We’re VaynerMedia! We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients' business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City. We are recognized for our work in Cannes Lions, the Clios, D&AD and The Webbies to name a few. Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly 250+, servicing multi-brands across the region.

The PITCH. We are creators, creative industry rogues and stars. We are not just on the internet; we are creating the stuff the internet and the world wants to see. We’re curious, hungry and passionate about what we do - and the people we do it with. We move so fast and make so much good stuff it's tough to keep up with. And we need more folks just like us, the unconventional, less-obvious, unseasoned (or over seasoned) creative pros. But above all - passionate makers and culture shakers.

Want in? We love subversive artists, obsessive makers, dedicated creators and we don’t care if you're a baby fresh to the workforce or working on your third act. What’s your hustle? Documentarian? DJ? Sports junkie? Fashionista? Blogger? Vlogger? Retired logger? Are you an Insta-fiend? An unabashed TikTokker? Or both? We’re down with all of that. Just as long as you love making and are really good at it.

Here’s where you come in…

• Lead, develop and deliver creative solutions, from content work to larger campaign initiatives for a variety of clients and industries.
• Embodies strong creative vision and understanding of client and agency business needs and objectives.
• Engages, inspires ideation and thinking and leads teams across a large body of work.
• Leads and wins new business pitches by collaborating with inter-agency departments and teams.
• Develop company wide creative processes including voice and content workshops, brief sessions, high priority brainstorms, emerging technology and social opportunities.
• Ensures that work is outstanding creatively and meets all brand objectives.
• Lead the development and execution of creative content rooted in insights for a variety of clients.
• Lead, mentor and manage a full creative team including ACD's, lead creators, senior creators, creators across different disciplines.
• Must understand, articulate, and strategically apply the latest platform, industry, creative trends, and digital best practices.
• Lead the development and growth of each team member, providing evaluation, mentorship, counsel, and determining assignments and incentives as needed.
• Act as a dotted line to senior leadership, including C level stakeholders, to ensure creative excellence and meeting of brand objectives.
• Operate as quality control and brand steward for the creative team.
• Attend client meetings and be the voice that communicates creative vision and processes.

We treasure Personality and Experience yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what WE KNOW as a success:

• 10+ years of professional creative experience from a creative/advertising agency.
• Exceptional management experience leading large teams.
• Experience building strong client relationships.
• Experience in partnering with clients to help them understand ideas.
• Master of industry and digital best practices.
• Master of UI/UX and an interest in the big social media platforms.
• Thought leader in ideation, copy, design or any diverse creative content.
• Leads, develops and creates TTL, digital and platform specific social campaigns.
• Challenger of the advertising industry, embraces change and a keen adopter of new strategies.
• Strong creative vision and understanding of client/agency business needs and objectives.
• Master of craft with vast amount of experience in designing all things digital and social.

Here’s How We Support You

• Unlimited Holiday + 1 Day Birthday Leave
• Cash Plan with Medicash - Virtual GP, Skinvision, 24/7 Health and Stress Helplines, Discounted Gym, Medicash Extras
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Program (Financial, Mental and Physical Wellbeing)
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Group Personal Pension
• 2 weeks Work From Anywhere
• Annual £150 budget to spend on anything that you’re curious about after 2 years.

What You SHOULD KNOW About VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.K.