Content Lead

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end social content creation and platform-native storytelling, driving high-impact executions and mentoring the team to elevate creative craft across the department.

  • Platform-native content: lead shoots from concept to post, ensuring native feel and fast turnover.
  • Creative leadership: drive ideation, art direction, and daily content capture/edit in collaboration with Editorial and Production teams.
  • Team growth: mentor multi-disciplinary staff, raise output quality, and share best practices across the department.

Job Description

Own end-to-end social content creation and platform-native storytelling, driving high-impact executions and mentoring the team to elevate creative craft across the department.

  • Take ownership of content delivery, proactively contribute to business opportunities, and play a key role in shaping the future of our creative department.
  • Lead small and mid-scale productions from concept to post-production, working closely with wider teams to ensure work is culturally sharp.
  • Live and breathe platform-native content and lead shoots end-to-end.
  • Lead creative ideation, art direction, and craft-focused execution in collaboration with Editorial and Production teams, capturing and editing content daily to create assets that feel native to the platform.
  • Maintain excellence across outputs and mentor the wider department to upskill the team.
  • senior social designer, senior content creator, or senior social-first creative with experience generating reactive and proactive ideas (from quick lo-fi to large-scale productions)
  • portfolio demonstrates high-quality, self-produced social video content that is on-brand and entertaining
  • experience collaborating with designers and editors to push novel execution techniques across motion, filming and editing
  • proven track record of creating thumb-stopping work with hooks, pacing, and transitions
  • ownership of work, creating client-facing decks, and presenting internally and externally
  • mentoring multi-disciplinary teams and upskilling the wider department
  • technical proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop) and mobile-first tools like CapCut
  • A proven leader who balances creative oversight with hands-on delivery, championing social-first craft across ideation, design, and emerging tech.
  • Ideated simple but original ideas at pace and have the technical skills to execute them immediately.
  • You possess a deep understanding of design disciplines including layout, typography, and motion and have the ability to translate complex campaign thinking into bespoke social executions.
  • Proven experience straddling multiple disciplines, you are a conceptual thinker who can identify reactive opportunities and turn community management moments into creative briefs.
  • A solution-driven leader who takes full accountability for results. You will manage and mentor a cross-functional team, introducing new workflows and fostering a strong team culture while staying focused on creative excellence.
  • You have an understanding of analytics and how to use data to improve content, alongside a constant curiosity for the fast-moving, social landscape.
  • 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance.
  • WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world!
  • Inclusion at every level is crucial to creative innovation and success, and we want to create a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging.
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We Are Social

3.3 Glassdoor

We are a global socially-led creative agency, with unrivaled social media expertise.With over 1,300 people in 19 offices around the world, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.We make ideas worth talking about. We understand social behaviours within online communities, cultures and subcultures, spanning the social and gaming landscape.We work with the world’s biggest brands, including adidas, Samsung, Netflix and Google, to reach the right people in a strategic, relevant and effective way.We Are Social is part of Plus Company.

Founded in 2008
London, England, GBR
1.8K employees (658 in marketing)
51% recommend to a friend
75% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
210.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.6%
Direct
37.2%
Referral
7.3%
Social
1.7%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
415 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
4.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$3.1M
Last Raise
$3.1M
Series A, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2022
    Series A • $3.1M

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