Senior Creative (NYC)

Senior Creative

New York (Hybrid Working)

A benchmarked salary between $105,000 to $115,000 based on your level within our progression framework.

Who we are

Born Social is a full service social media agency designed for the new era of advertising. Our client list includes household names like Guinness, Primark, Ford and Smirnoff as well as the next generation of big brands like Captain Morgan and Seedlip.

We're an ambitious team of almost 200 people across the UK and a new team here in New York. We're growing fast and so we're looking for our first Senior Creative to join us.

As a Senior Creative you'll translate strategy into pitch & award winning creative ideas and briefs for our Creatives to execute. You'll work closely with our Strategists to understand our client's brief, challenges, and opportunities, and use these to build out creative concepts that achieve measurable results. You also work closely with your Design & Production team, briefing in and overseeing the production process to help bring your ideas to life.

️ What you'll be doing:

• Translating strategy into effective social-first creative ideas for pitch, project, always on and campaign work that sets the standard of what great looks like for our team and clients

• Pitching and presenting, at both the new business stage and project delivery

• Overseeing creative execution of creative strategies and briefs to ensure the excellence of output that follows the creative strategy by evolving and maintaining creative review criteria

• Working to bridge the gap between our thinking and making by identifying key issues causing challenges in workflow between ideation and execution

• Collaborating with other leaders to develop solutions the result in high quality work from both creative output

• Supporting the performance and development of Creatives, ensuring they are thriving both as individuals and as a team as well as helping with the hiring and onboarding of new team members and freelancers

• Working with the other Creative leaders to report and feedback insights on team performance related to work, process and culture

• Supporting the writing of case studies and awards entries, proving creativity and effectiveness of our work and producing thought leadership content on your areas of expertise

• Testing & teaching new approaches and tools within the creative strategy and account teams

Who we're looking for:

• You've got a minimum of 5 years agency experience and have been in a Senior conceptual Creative or Senior Creative Strategy role before

• You have a deep understanding of social media and how it can be harnessed for a variety of brands and businesses

• You're a big thinker who's able to think social-first not social-only

• You're a self-starter, comfortable working independently to proactively find various routes into a brief 

• You've got strong deck writing, formatting and presentation skills

• You have a proven track record of overseeing the creative production process

• You've got strong deck writing, formatting and presentation skills

️ Our values:

Our values aim to pinpoint the magic ingredients for us at our best. We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. 

See Challenge as Opportunity... is about our attitude and to be very clear, this is not a value of optimism, nor is it about loving every challenge.

Say It Simply... is how we communicate. Think of the basic rules of communication - honest, clear, confident.

Do What You Say... is the crux of our reputation and longevity. When you join Born Social, our trust is fully given. It is yours to lose. 

Make Each Other Better... is about our culture of collaboration and commitment to development. We are only as good as the people around us so we all take responsibility for developing each other, as well as ourselves.

Consciously Contribute...is bigger than all the others.  It ensures we grow right. It broadens our focus beyond Born Social and cements our commitment to doing what’s just, not what’s easy or immediately self-serving.  

Company Benefits

• 20 days vacation a year with 12 public holidays observed

  • Early finish throughout the summer months

  • Enhanced paid parental leave

  • Healthy in-office meals and snacks

  • 401(k) Savings Plan

  • Sales commission with pitch opportunities

  • Annual performance bonus

  • Pre-tax commuter benefits

  • Full paid medical Insurance for employee (including dental and vision)

  • Dependent contribution to medical, dental and vision coverage

  • Employer paid life insurance coverage

  • Monthly wellness membership stipend

  • Access to health guidance and wellness resources

  • Free Citi bike membership

  • Hybrid workspace support - home office setup is provided

  • Agile working policy

  • Opportunity to work abroad in Croud’s international offices.

  • Regularly scheduled social events and quarterly team offsites

Everyone's welcome:

We celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds here at Born Social. As an equal opportunities employer, we believe in the power of an inclusive and representative team. We welcome applications regardless of race, religion or belief, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, family, or parental status. We don’t simply comply with the Equality Act, we go further and take pride in building a stronger and more creative work environment, committed to inclusion, diversity, and representation.