Vice President Group Director, Content Creator

Company Description

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. 

Overview

We are seeking an award-winning social media creative leader to help our Fortune 500 client find its authentic place and purpose in the social sphere. This is a role for a person who lives and breathes social and has helped major brands transform their approach through breakthrough content across platforms. Someone who is curious and takes the time to educate themselves on the latest creative techniques and formats. Who can even break down the latest celeb beef; explain the backstory of every meme; and might even be a content creator themselves.

Your portfolio reads like an epic FYP. You’ve helped clients become famous in the feed. You can chat it up with CMOs like it’s NBD.

As someone who will help scale and lead a growing team of content creators and social-first creatives, we’re looking for someone who s an expert at translating insights into impactful work; who understands the depths of subcommunities; and can easily spot cultural shifts and lives in the comment sections of the newest social platform.

In short, we’re looking for an out-of-the-box creative leader prized to break the internet and trades.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and help grow a content creation and social-first creative team
• Lead teams’ conceptual and strategic thinking across multiple platforms
• Ensure high craft, cohesion, and quality across creative outputs
• Understand the value of strategic insights, experiences and storytelling to create and sell your teams’ ideas
• Build relationships with agency capabilities including strategy, media, data and analytics and tech
• Appreciate and advocate for craft across capabilities, including production and tech
• Build trust with clients, understanding their business to find opportunities
• Recruit and retain creative talent, building a team with a breadth and depth of relevant skills
• Work with HR and Creative Operations to manage direct reports’ daily workload and career development
• Challenge yourself creatively, staying up to date with the industry and culture at large. Help drive our creative culture both inside and outside of the agency

Qualifications

Who you are

• Four-year degree and 8-10 years of experience as a creative director, with specific expertise in social media creative
• You have managed and scaled teams of creatives with hybrid expertise from art directors, copywriters, editors to makers and creators.
• You have a clear POV on what makes for standout creative in the social feed that you could confidently share with Fortune 500 CMOs
• You’re excited and inspired by the world of social media - the first to share among colleagues and friends the latest trends, effects, tracks, etc. on TikTok
• You’re obsessed with internet culture, the latest memes and trends, online subcultures and communities
• You’re a storyteller who can create captivating insights that range from educational to aspirational and everything in between
• Have a skillset for and are interested in content creation on social. You have a hands-on, get it done, make cool sh*t mentality
• You have vast experience working with creators and influencers
• Collaborative and a team player
• You have a social-centric portfolio

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