Senior Creative

Senior Creative

London (Hybrid Working) 

A benchmarked salary between £54,000 to £60,480 based on your level within our progression framework. 

You can read more about our approach to performance, salary, and progression here.

👋 Who we are

Born Social is a full service social media agency designed for the new era of advertising. Our client list includes household names like Guinness, Primark, Ford, Mars and ASDA as well as the next generation of big brands like Nando’s, Seedlip and Peloton.

As a proud B Corp we work hard to attract, retain and develop the best social-first talent and create a culture where individuals can thrive. We’re a team of over 175 people across the UK & US and growing!

We're growing fast and so we're looking for another Senior Creative to join our team.

As a Senior Creative you'll translate strategy into pitch & award winning creative ideas and briefs for our Creatives to execute.  Reporting into the Creative Director, you'll work closely with the Strategists to understand our client's brief, challenges, and opportunities, and use these to build out creative concepts that achieve measurable results. You also work closely with your Design & Studio team, briefing in and overseeing the production process to help bring your ideas to life.

✏️ What you'll be doing:

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• Translating strategy into effective social-first creative ideas for pitch, project, always on and campaign work that sets the standard of what great looks like for our team and clients
  
• Pitching and presenting, at both the new business stage and project delivery
  
• Overseeing creative execution of creative strategies and briefs to ensure the excellence of output that follows the creative strategy by evolving and maintaining creative review criteria
  
• Working to bridge the gap between our thinking and making by identifying key issues causing challenges in workflow between ideation and execution
  
• Collaborating with other leaders to develop solutions the result in high quality work from both creative output
  
• Supporting the performance and development of Creatives, ensuring they are thriving both as individuals and as a team as well as helping with the hiring and onboarding of new team members and freelancers
  
• Working with the other Creative leaders to report and feedback insights on team performance related to work, process and culture
  
• Supporting the writing of case studies and awards entries, proving creativity and effectiveness of our work and producing thought leadership content on your areas of expertise
  
• Testing & teaching new approaches and tools within the creative strategy and account teams
  

👀 Who we're looking for:

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• You've got a minimum of 5-6 years agency experience and have been in a Senior conceptual Creative or Senior Creative Strategy role before
  
• You have a deep understanding of social media and how it can be harnessed for a variety of brands and businesses
  
• You're a big thinker who's able to think social-first not social-only
  
• You're a self-starter, comfortable working independently to proactively find various routes into a brief 
  
• You've got strong deck writing, formatting and presentation skills
  
• You have a proven track record of overseeing the creative production process
  
• You've got strong deck writing, formatting and presentation skills
  

✌️ Our values:

Our values aim to pinpoint the magic ingredients for us at our best. We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. 

See Challenge as Opportunity... is about our attitude and to be very clear, this is not a value of optimism, nor is it about loving every challenge.

Say It Simply... is how we communicate. Think of the basic rules of communication - honest, clear, confident.

Do What You Say... is the crux of our reputation and longevity. When you join Born Social, our trust is fully given. It is yours to lose. 

Make Each Other Better... is about our culture of collaboration and commitment to development. We are only as good as the people around us so we all take responsibility for developing each other, as well as ourselves.

Consciously Contribute...is bigger than all the others.  It ensures we grow right. It broadens our focus beyond Born Social and cements our commitment to doing what’s just, not what’s easy or immediately self-serving.  

Company Benefits:

Flexibility 🤸 Hybrid working, core hours, and an allowance to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks each year

Holiday 🌴 25 days holiday allowance per year plus a 3-day company switch off between Christmas & New Year

Wellbeing 🧠 A choice of £30 monthly wellbeing budget or Health Insurance, access to Spill (virtual mental health support), a trained team of Mental Health First Aiders, an annual Recharge Day and a Bike2Work scheme

Learning & Development 📚 £100 annual budget on Learnerbly (a curated platform of brilliant learning resources) as well as lots of team & department training

Contribute 🌎 Give one day to the world each year through our volunteering scheme and make your own impact on social or environmental sustainability

Incentives 🏆 Monthly team-voted prizes to celebrate individuals who Make Born Better and an Annual Profit Share Scheme so as the business grows, you'll be able to take a share of that growth home each financial year

The Usual Suspects 👍 From pension scheme to enhanced parental leave to life assurance

Clubs ♣️ Book Club, Film Club, Run Club, Cycling Club, Tag Rugby Club there's something for everyone

Consciously Contribute 💙 Impact our sustainability goals by joining one of our Consciously Contribute Committees

Born Socials 🎉 We like hanging out together and love us some organised (and not so organised) fun

💙 Everyone is welcome

We celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds here at Born Social. As an equal opportunities employer, we believe in the power of an inclusive and representative team. We welcome applications regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, family, or parental status. We don’t simply comply with the Equality Act, we go further and take pride in building a stronger and more creative work environment, committed to inclusion, diversity, and representation.

Born Social 🤝 Croud

Born Social is proud to be part of Croud. Together we are a global, full service digital marketing agency. We operate as a unique scaled network of Intelligent, Creative Specialists, enabling us to deliver superior brand outcomes and unlock potential for our people, our clients and our communities.

Our shared culture is designed to elevate everyone, with a focus on trust, collaboration, innovation, generosity and purpose.

💼 A day in the life at Born Social:

We've partnered with Day of Wrk to show you what daily life is like in some of our most popular job roles.Visit their site to see content from some of our team including Social Media Managers, Motion Designer & Account Managers.