Social Content Creatives
Please not, this is not a live role. If you would like to be considered for any future Social Content Creative positions at DEPT®, please submit an application and we will be in touch when a suitable opportunity arises.
This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include eBay, Prime Video, easyJet, smart, ASOS, Just Eat Takeaway, Twitch, TikTok, and The White Company.
JOB PURPOSE
We’re on the hunt for a superstar social content creatives – People filled with stand-out creative ideas, first class cultural insights and brilliant social trends knowledge.
You’ll be a culture-obsessed creative and looking to work on an exciting roster of consumer brands and come up with eye-catching organic social ideas that are designed to be discovered in the fyp and beyond. Your ideas will connect brands within communities and culture - not just adding to the noise, but building and creating real connections and driving engagement around organic social content.
You’ll bring experience from a social role in-house, or in agency and be able to sell your ideas with flair. You’ll be able to demonstrate this with experience including concepting, presenting with confidence and backing up your ideas with strategic insights, trends and data.
This role requires concepting, social shoots, storyboarding, reactive cultural content and copywriting so it goes without saying that you’ll know the latest ‘creator coded’ social trends before anyone else does – and understand how to spin those insights into compelling social-first content for brands.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Deliver stand out ideas for organic social (planned and reactive) that connects brands to communities and culture
- Present your ideas succinctly and with confidence to clients
- Concep, storyboard and write copy to bring your creative ideas to life
- View creative with a strategic mindset pulling in social trends, data and insights
- Attend social-first shoots
- Use data to optimise and improve social content each month
- Create all content to a brand’s TOV
- Work collaboratively to create high-quality social content
SKILLS AND PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential:
- Experience in social-first ideas, concepting, copywriting and production
- Experience in using cultural trends and insights to create compelling social-first content
- Strong presentation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to react quickly within a fast-paced environment
- A love for learning new things
- Great interpersonal and listening skills
- High attention to detail
- Strategic mindset
WE OFFER
- A flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location).
- An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies
- Pension, free private healthcare, mental health support, and company sick pay scheme.
- 26 days paid holiday (plus UK Bank Holidays).
- Refreshments are provided in the office all week, as well as drinks at 4 pm on a Thursday.
- Help getting you to work with a season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme.
- Enhanced family friendly policies to support new parents.
- Social and Cultural Events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.
- Inspirational Talks, bringing the outside in with regular guest speakers and events.
- Learning and Development, supporting your growth with continuous opportunities to learn and advance.
- Buddy Programme: You will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help you through your first weeks’ at DEPT®.
- A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
- Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
- The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
- Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.
WHO ARE WE?
The bigger picture: DEPT® is a pioneering technology and marketing services company that creates integrated end-to-end digital experiences for brands such as Google, TikTok, eBay, ASOS, Zoopla, Twitch, Patagonia and many, many more.
Our team of 4,000+ digital specialists across 30+ locations on five continents deliver pioneering work on a global scale with a boutique culture. We live and breathe our ‘big enough to cope, small enough to care’ ethos, providing an inclusive, supportive and an exciting place to accelerate your career.
DEPT® is committed to making a positive impact on the planet and since 2021 has been Climate Neutral and B Corporation certified.
At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.
Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine.
We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.
Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.
