🌎 Where: 100% Remote -  Accessible to London for occasional meetings 

🤝 Type:  Full time salaried role (12 month maternity cover)

🚀 Join Us at Social Element! 🌟

Founded 23 years ago, we're a leading global and independent full-service social media agency on a mission to Make Social Better for everyone.

To us, better social means creating unskippable content, making scrolling safer for everyone, creating stronger connections with each other and making a huge impact.

Now, we're on the lookout for a Social Creative to join our Creative & Innovation, Europe team on a 12 month maternity cover basis initially 💼

👊 The Opportunity

As a  Social Creative you will be responsible for shipping exceptional social-first creative content and campaign creative for our clients.  You will manage the full creative process; from ideation to delivery of creative and proactive campaigns which could be both, organic and paid and include influencers and external partners. 

You will ensure all creative work meets our client’s briefs, objectives and help reach their KPIs. You’ll  ideate content within a  variety of mediums as best suited to the brief and audience, including stills, videos, Creators, GIFs, augmented reality, virtual reality, AI and other emerging formats.

You will also work closely with multiple internal functions including Client Services, Strategy, Social Media Management, Engagement and Production to bring ideas to life from ideation to completion.  

You will plan, ideate, create and execute exceptional social creative campaigns and content that have the opportunity to bring Social Element and our clients well deserved fame by doing the following: 

• Understand client’s objectives and goals for its wider social content strategy, and apply it effectively to creative campaigns across organic and paid.

• Day to day management and deliverables for content creation for our clients, sometimes on their own and sometimes in collaboration with a Producer.

• Understand key data insights to constantly improve content output, and provide recommendations to feed into the content strategy.

• Mentor junior team member(s), review and support their creative work and support their growth. 

• Lead creative content ideas  in pitches.

• Provide ad-hoc copywriting when needed across business, clients and pitches.

• Work with SMMs and Strategists to feed into monthly and quarterly reports for our clients.

• Create wrap-up decks internally and externally during and after projects are complete to share learnings with our teams and our clients.

• When needed, manage the creation of case study decks and videos.

• Support Social Element marketing team with creative ideation, creative strategy and creation of assets.

• Offer creative thought leadership both internally and externally.

• Ensure that DE&I is baked into everything we do and champion this within creativity in the agency.

👇 About You 

As a seasoned Social Creative with  extensive experience  in the advertising, marketing or communications industry, you are a hands-on  creative who turns 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. 

• Creative drive and have a strong work ethic with a professional approach to time, costs and deadlines. 

• A big picture thinker who is adept in creating tactical, always-on ideas

• A self-starter with adaptability to work in a fast-paced growing environment.

• Confident in presenting ideas to clients and internal stakeholders. Excitement to learn and collaborate with internal team members. 

• Naturally inclusive, collaborative and with a positive can-do attitude

Requirements 📙

• Extensive experience as a Social Creative, preferably from an agency background

• Confident in pitching ideas to clients and internal stakeholders

• Experience in producing content at scale

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

• Ability to influence key stakeholders and support change

• A joyful collaborator and solution orientated

• Ability to set clear objectives, timelines and deadlines for own work

• Basic creation skills in CapCut and other mobile editing.

• Optional skills in  Adobe Creative Suite including  Photoshop, Firefly, Premiere and AI image generation.

Benefits

🏠 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

🌞 Flexible Fridays (Working half day)

👓 Eye care: Contributions towards eye tests and glasses

🏥 Enhanced sick pay: 4 weeks full pay, 4 weeks half pay

👪 Enhanced family friendly policies

🤗 Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing support

🛍️ Access to our discounts website

The Hiring Process 

The hiring process for this position will be made up of the  following stages:

✨ Portfolio Walkthrough - with Global Director, Creative & Innovation

❤️ Culture + Connect Interview - with one of the talent team 

🎨 Skills + Experience Interview (with presentation) - with Global Director, Creative & Innovation and another key member of the team

The Social Element Behaviours For Success

Be focused and decisive 🔥

Be brave and inspirational  🦸

Be rigorous in our approach 🕵️

Be considered and inclusive 🤗 

Be loud and proud 🔊

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 fulfill 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 all this sounds like you, simply upload your CV/resume and complete the application form.  While a cover letter is optional, we welcome any other way for you to share  what draws you and motivates you  about this role and the agency.

We encourage candidates to express their interest and motivation in the format that best showcases their talents. Here are a few  ideas,  please feel free to explore any method that suits you best (even if not included in the list of examples)

***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.

We are excited to receive your application! ❤️