Social Creative (Ideas)
Level: Creative – approximately 2-4 years’ agency experience
Team: Creative, working exclusively across social clients
Reports to: Creative Director
Hours: Full time
Location: London, a regional UK location or New York, depending on the right candidate
Salary: £55K-£65K
About the agency
A culture-first creative agency working with world-famous brands is looking for a Social Creative to develop original campaign and organic content ideas across its social-first client portfolio.
The role
This is an ideas-led role for a creative who understands internet culture and knows what makes work connect on social. You’ll develop concepts spanning everyday organic content through to larger campaigns, helping bring them to life with producers, designers, strategists and fellow creatives.
You’ll balance audience insight with brand relevance, creating work that feels native to each platform and gives people a reason to engage.
What you’ll do
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Develop social-first campaign concepts and executional ideas.
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Adapt ideas across platforms, audiences and formats, from TikTok to LinkedIn.
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Stay close to the trends, memes and conversations shaping culture.
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Keep up with platform and algorithm changes, sharing useful insights with the team.
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Collaborate with creatives, producers, designers, strategists and client services.
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Present ideas clearly and confidently to internal teams and clients.
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Help shape execution through an understanding of filming, editing and publishing.
What we’re looking for
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Around 2-4 years’ agency experience and a strong portfolio of social-first creative work.
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Original ideas that demonstrate impact, beyond strong execution alone.
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A clear understanding of social platforms, their audiences and their creative possibilities.
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The ability to balance cultural relevance with a brand’s identity and objectives.
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Range across formats, with the ability to develop one idea in multiple ways.
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An understanding of audiences beyond your own interests and experiences.
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A hands-on creative craft, such as art direction, writing or editing.
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Confidence collaborating with others and presenting your thinking.
Helpful extras
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Experience using AI tools to explore and prototype ideas.
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Experience supporting junior creatives.
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Confidence appearing on camera.
A CV and social-first portfolio (must be linked in CV) showing strong campaign ideas and well-executed content. Candidates should make their contribution to each project clear and include results or evidence of impact where available.
Sphere Digital Recruitment currently have a variety of job opportunities across digital so feel free to get in touch with us to find out how we can help you. Please take a look at our website.
Sphere is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications regardless of ethnic origin, race, religious beliefs, age, disability, gender or sexual orientation, and any other protected status as required by applicable law.
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