Social Creative Lead

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Lead and develop a social-first creative team to turn insights into engaging campaigns from concept to delivery.

  • Own development of concepts and scripts for social video.
  • Prioritize and balance workloads across client services and production.
  • Present ideas to clients and contribute to new business pitches.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop the creative team through regular feedback, one-to-ones and clear development goals.
  • Guide the team’s output from initial ideas through to final delivery, maintaining a consistent standard of creativity and execution.
  • Set clear priorities and allocate creative work, balancing workloads with client services and production.
  • Review and refine concepts, scripts, treatments and edits, giving constructive, actionable feedback.
  • Lead creative development across social-first campaigns, repeatable formats and reactive content.
  • Write concepts and scripts, bringing strong storytelling, humour and a distinctive brand voice.
  • Work with strategy to turn audience insights and cultural observations into compelling creative.
  • Collaborate with content creators, copywriters, designers and production teams, shaping casting, art direction and shoots.
  • Present ideas to clients and contribute to new business pitches.
  • Use performance insights and audience feedback to guide future creative.

Requirements

  • Experience in a social-first creative role within an agency or brand, with a portfolio showing your contribution.
  • Strong conceptual and copywriting skills, including experience writing scripts for social video.
  • A deep understanding of TikTok, Instagram, creators and internet culture.
  • An instinct for what makes content entertaining, relevant and worth sharing.
  • Experience taking ideas from a brief through to production and publication.
  • Confidence presenting your thinking and giving constructive creative feedback.
  • The ability to balance several briefs, collaborate well and take ownership of your work.
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Simply Social

Making social simple for clients like Curry’s, Tesco, Just Eat, Universal Pictures, Peroni to name a few

Founded in 2021
London, England, GBR
54 employees (26 in marketing)

Salaries

Social Media median pay in the United Kingdom

£37K/yr

Most pay falls between £31K and £44K. Based on 300 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
19 (35% of company)
Median Tenure
8.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
566
Traffic Source Mix
Direct
100%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~54
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Social Creative Lead

Simply Social · London, UK · Hybrid