Creative Strategist

Digital Natives is a social-first creative agency for innovators. Innovators are our clients who understand the power of social-first thinking, and the disproportionate results it can bring to a business. We are passionate, curious and excited by all things social.

Our rapidly growing team of creatives, designers, editors and account managers work together to create outstanding social campaigns for our list of global brands, covering beauty, FMCG, travel and tech.

We’re looking for an exceptional Creative Strategist to join our team. This person will combine excellent strategic thinking with creative noust. You’ll have experience of working collaboratively with colleagues and clients to create remarkable content that resonates with audiences and achieves business objectives.

With at least 5 years’ related experience in social and digital, you’ll be bright, enthusiastic and confident. You’ll be an excellent internal and external communicator with an eagle eye and almost geeky organisational skills. You will be expected to devise strategic campaigns that tap into cultural and human truth to positively provoke creatives and clients alike. Creating compelling presentations to sell into clients that are clear and easy to understand.

Beyond the day-to-day client work, our role is to challenge and inspire the agency and beyond. You will contribute to thought leadership on social-first thinking.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Briefing and inspiring creatives to develop bold and effective work for social media and beyond
• When not writing creative briefs develop comms, brand platform and other types of strategy
• Become an indispensable part of the client business that supercharges effectiveness, innovation or creativity and incremental revenue
• Unlocking juicy insights to solve business challenges with primary and secondary research using tools such as BrandWatch
• Keeping up with the latest in digital and social effectiveness and using it to inform ongoing strategies
• Stay connected to our clients’ commercial contexts while also demonstrating a solid understanding of people and culture
• Engaging with and building up clients’ communities and new audiences on social media
• Contribute to agency thought‑leadership and set the agenda for clients, the agency and beyond
• Become a trusted partner to creative, account and production, and be central to key decisions taken on each account

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Technical knowledge and understanding of social media platforms, metrics and tracking, media
• Obsession with social media channels, trends and updates
• Brilliant strategic thinker, able to translate insights into actionable social briefs
• Master of ppt / Google Slides, able to create excellent pitch deck
• Deep understanding of paid media and how it informs content plans
• A fascination with culture and what drives it
• Experience in creating long and short‑form copy, from thought leadership pieces through to social media
• Guiding the teams to deliver the best possible campaigns
• Expert in presenting and selling in ideas to clients
• Calm under pressure
• Have the flexibility to lend a hand outside your role when needed
• Team player, ready to join our passionate, close‑knit team

SALARY & BENEFITS:

• Performance‑related bonus based on incremental revenue targets hit
• Flexible working (2 days remote, 3 in office)
• External & internal dedicated training & development programmes

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