Senior Director, Social

About the Role

We’re looking for a highly experienced Social Strategy Lead who loves what they do and is looking to do it for some of the biggest brands in the world. You are a leader in the social space, a well-rounded senior strategist and you live and breathe social in your day-to-day. You have a strong understanding of how brands grow in the Social Age and have done so for big clients in agency environments. You have experience from multiple categories, and across brands in different stages of growth. You are comfortable in dynamic, fast-paced, international work environment.  You can adapt to a changing brief and be the voice in the room driving the work forward. You constantly explore what’s next in the world of brand building and push clients and your team to try new things. You can manage senior clients and junior strategists. You know who won the last Film Grand Prix at Cannes and who’s best on TikTok. You love what you do and take pride in your work. 

What You’ll Do

• Lead Social Strategy for our largest client in a day-to-day capacity - ensuring work is social-first and innovative, communities are managed, creative is pushing boundaries and analytics is proving it’s working.
• Integrate and oversee teams of social strategists, creatives, community managers and analysts to ensure work delivers on client asks.
• Lead innovation and implementation of key strategic frameworks in social and brand strategy with the ability to develop end-to-end solutions with social at heart
• Oversee quality and development of creative from briefing to live date ensuring the team is delivering on strategic goals and work is on time and well done.
• Partner with senior strategy teams at Ogilvy to be the “go-to” thought leader and expert in integration of social and other inter-agency disciplines, driving clarity on complex programs with social at the heart.
• Ability to see beyond the social deliverables to help grow the social business and integrate with other disciplines across an array of business. Serve as a senior strategic thought leader in all spaces.
• Be a trusted client strategy partner both educating and pushing them to lead in the social space.
• Build strong relationships with creative leaders and creative community within Ogilvy and within client teams.
• Become strong contributor in a global thought-leadership network.
• Be a trusted advisor to C-Suite level clients and consistently suggest new offerings to client leads.
• Help contribute to the offerings and capabilities for the social and PR teams at Ogilvy and be an active participant in setting Ogilvy’s vision and the vision of the Social Team to future proof our offerings.

What You’ll Need

• 10 – 15 years of experience
• Proven experience in social strategy, community management and social creative management
• Proven successful collaboration with creative leaders and complex creative teams
• Proven thought-leadership in social media
• Proven track record of building and growing senior-level client relationships
• Knows how work with media teams with focus on social media
• Deep knowledge of social media platform capabilities and specs
• Willingness to learn, explore, and reinvent
• Experience in large agency environments
• Experience with big name brands driving social change and improvement within the social space
• Ability to multitask and juggle multiple priority projects at once
• Effective written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to write and deliver persuasive presentations is critical
• Strong analytical skills. Ability to interpret ongoing research and media reports, guide and partner with social media experts to inform communications recommendations
• The mindset to anticipate changes to the social landscape and help the team adapt#LI-SL1