Vice President Director, Social Creative

New York City, NY (On-site)

$129K/yr – $207K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 6 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead social first creative work across platforms, guiding strategy-driven storytelling, team growth, and cross-functional collaboration to drive measurable business impact.

  • Own creative direction across social platforms
  • Lead team growth and client partnerships

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop social-first creative work that earns attention, drives conversation, and delivers measurable business impact
  • Partner with a robust social strategy and intelligence team to turn cultural signals, audience data, and trend velocity into breakthrough creative
  • Lead culturally literate storytelling rooted in subcommunities, comment sections, and creator culture
  • Push brands to show up with purpose, not just presence
  • Stay ahead of algorithm shifts, platform updates, and emerging creator behaviors
  • Challenge traditional campaign models—thinking in moments, series, drops, and community-driven formats
  • Manage, mentor, and help grow a content creation and social-first creative team
  • Lead teams’ conceptual and strategic thinking across multiple platforms
  • Build relationships with agency capabilities including strategy, media, data and analytics and tech
  • Appreciate and advocate for craft across capabilities, including production and tech

Requirements

  • Four-year degree and 3-6 years of experience as a creative director, with specific expertise in social media creative
  • Managed and scaled teams of creatives with hybrid expertise from art directors, copywriters, editors to makers and creators.
  • You're a pet lover and have experience working with animals.
  • 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

Benefits

  • medical coverage
  • dental
  • vision
  • disability
  • 401K
  • parential and family care leave
  • family forming assistance
  • tuition reimbursement
  • flexible time off
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Digitas North America

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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. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

Founded in 1980
Boston, Massachusetts, US
2.8K employees (892 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
82% CEO approval

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Direct
42.7%
Referral
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6.2%
Paid
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Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
673 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.9 years
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