Social Creative Director in London

We are the largest global socially-led creative agency, with unrivalled social media and influencer marketing expertise. With over 1,200 people in four continents, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.

We're proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help Amazon Music, Activision and Adidas deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date.

As well as creating for clients, we help educate the wider industry. Our Instagram publication The Feed tracks culture at the speed of social. 6,500 people registered or tuned into our events last year, and our reports garnered more than 20 million views.

Are you a social-first creative leader obsessed with audience behaviour and internet culture? Do you have a proven track record of setting up and governing content systems for major brands? Can you lead high-performing teams to best-in-class work across multiple markets and workstreams?

We’re looking for a Social Creative Director to take the reins of one of the agency’s most significant entertainment accounts, overseeing the content strategy and creative direction for a dynamic, award-winning social programme. This is a leadership role on the account, responsible for defining how the brand shows up across social - setting the vision, establishing best practices and constantly raising the bar to ensure the work is always ahead of the curve.

Sitting above a central team of directors and a global team of market creative leads, you’ll guide the overarching direction of the account while partnering closely with senior client stakeholders and agency leadership. This requires someone fluent in operating at both macro and granular levels: defining long-term content strategy and creative frameworks while maintaining high-level oversight of day-to-day output, social excellence, and creative quality.

We’re looking for someone equally comfortable leading teams, influencing senior stakeholders and navigating the fast-moving realities of high-volume, high-impact social. Someone who understands how to scale learnings across markets without losing cultural relevance or strategic sharpness.

Requirements

• Defined and led the overarching creative vision across large accounts, translating this vision into clear briefs and goals that move with the ever-evolving social landscape.
• Maintained ultimate oversight and quality assurance, upholding a consistently high creative standard across all content output, including campaigns, publishing, and different markets.
• Built and oversaw systems, workflows, and publishing operations, ensuring consistency in ways of working, editorial processes, and publishing standards across accounts and markets to enable teams to work effectively at scale.
• Acted as a senior strategic partner to client stakeholders and agency leadership, leading high-level conversations around content direction, performance, and account growth.
• Led and mentored senior content leads, creating clarity, momentum, and alignment across multidisciplinary teams.
• Translated business objectives, cultural insight, and platform behaviour into clear frameworks and priorities, ensuring community insights and trends meaningfully inform creative development.
• Managed multiple fast-moving workstreams, including major global and local social campaigns (from flagship live festival coverage to lower-funnel e-commerce) while maintaining clarity and calm under pressure.
• Identified opportunities for innovation, growth, and evolution across channels and content formats, and spotted emerging cultural, platform, and creator trends to translate into actionable opportunities.

What Else Are We Looking For?

• Leadership experience within social and content environments, with a background as either a senior social creative or content strategist.
• Proven experience leading large-scale, multi-market or global accounts.
• Deep understanding of social platforms, audience behaviour, and content ecosystems.
• A strategic mindset paired with strong instincts and impeccable creative judgment.
• Experience building operational systems and frameworks for high-volume content teams, as well as experience leading major campaigns.
• Strong leadership and people management experience across multidisciplinary teams.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and presentation skills.
• Calm, decisive, and highly organised in fast-paced environments.
• Data-informed, with the ability to use insights to evolve strategy and improve performance.
• Deeply embedded in music, podcast, and internet culture, with a strong instinct for where culture is heading next.

Benefits

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL.

Inclusion at every level is crucial to creative innovation and success, and we want to create a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We welcome and encourage talent from ALL backgrounds and are committed to creating a representative team that can deliver creative excellence.

If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via recruitment@wearesocial.net.

We offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world!

If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?