Social Content Creator
We are looking for a Creative Content Creator to join our social creative team – a close-knit group of creatives working together as a collective to create fresh, bold, distinctive and breakthrough social content. This unique opportunity offers the chance to work in close collaboration with the strategic and creative teams of Ogilvy, and with some of the best social & content experts in the industry, delivering for one of our biggest clients. Your mission: to concept big ideas that are Social at heart and create best-in-class content for social programs or integrated campaigns.
Key Qualities
- Ambitious and hungry – ready to take on a huge challenge.
- In love with your work and passionate about your craft.
- You have the ability to work on a broad range of creative tactics.
- A new wave creative: dreamer, doer, maker.
- Crazy enough to think you can change the industry.
- You can work independently and provide thought starters for the designers.
- You can go from high level thinking to creation of assets.
- You can work alongside a full production crew or in an office or apartment to get great content.
- You have a deep understanding of social platforms - functionally and platform mechanics + best practices.
- You are chronically online; understanding when a trend is right for a brand and when it’s not (i.e. bottle flips, TikTok dances, etc.)
- Ability to get super specific on what / why / how things can come to life and make sense platform-to-platform.
- Clearly understands the role the brand plays in social and the ability to adapt based on charter work and community-led feedback (finding that bridge)
- Ability to quickly adapt / maker mentality.
- A team player.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with the team to develop, and present creative concepts for clients and new business to help build brands on Social.
- Attends and captures content at shoots and events.
- Works closely with art directors and designers to ensure copy tone and style are consistent with visual tone, style, and brand guidelines.
- Writes, shoots, edits, and produces content owned across multiple channels.
- Must be able to understand business objectives and audience demographics to be able to successfully land the messaging.
- Responsible for translating creative direction and copy points from creative briefs into engaging and effective concepts.
- Proof-reads and vets copy before to ensure consistency in tone, grammar and messaging before assets are handed over to be published.
- Stays abreast with global cultural trends and industry updates, and proactively develop timely ideas for relevant.
- Ideates individually and collaboratively on innovative content ideas designed to meet long-term goals for both social media engagement and overall audience growth.
- Identifies user and community generated content that should be reposted, gain permissions, and re-edit audio tracks as needed.
Qualifications
- Minimum 2-3 years of relevant copywriting and content creation experience in the social space
- Strategic and conceptual thinking
- Ability to lead scrappy content creation
- Passion for learning and self-improvement
- Proactive and a self-starter
- Positive attitude and ability to work under tight deadlines
- Adaptable and able to handle changes in briefs, priorities and edits
At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.
We believe in building powerful teams with purpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.
Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
