Vice President Director, Social Creative

Birmingham, UK (On-site)

$129K/yr – $177K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale social-first creative that drives measurable impact, working with Strategy to translate signals into breakthrough work while leading a team of creators and collaborating across craft and client business streams.

  • Lead culturally literate storytelling and multi-platform concepts
  • Partner with strategy and creative to turn cultural signals into breakthrough campaigns
  • Mentor a small team of creators and social-first creatives

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 small team of creators and social-first creatives
  • 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 5-7 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.
  • Experience in the automotive industry with work samples to show for it.
  • 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

  • Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
526.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,719 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
4.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
141