Junior Creative (Duo)

The role

Who We Are

We are a global socially-led creative agency, with unrivalled social media and influencer marketing expertise. With over 1,200 people in four continents, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.

We’re proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help Amazon Music, Activision and Adidas deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date.

As well as creating for clients, we help educate the wider industry. Our Instagram publication The Feed tracks culture at the speed of social. 6,500 people registered or tuned into our events last year, and our reports garnered more than 20 million views.

Requirements

The Opportunity 

Please note, this role is for a junior creative team, not an individual.

Are you a curious, creative and ambitious junior creative duo with a flair for social-first advertising, who also live and breathe the fast-paced world of social media, creators and influencers?

Keen to join a team of plugged-in creatives, shaping work that doesn’t just follow culture but helps drive it forward with creative campaigns and content ideas?

This is an opportunity for a junior duo who are excited to develop big social-first creative platforms ideas, ideate social-first campaigns and come up with original yet simple social content that goes beyond trends and demands attention for some of the worlds best brands.

Supported by creative directors and social strategists, you’ll connect the dots between emerging trends, platform features, and brand storytelling to produce work that is unexpected, striking, entertaining, and genuinely brand-building.

You’ll crack tricky social advertising briefs with highly conceptual original creativity informed by culture.

You’ll craft decks that sell your ideas to clients then expertly shepherd ideas through production with the blended multi-discipline team while protecting the core idea, the art direction and the copywriting.

You won’t be expected to shoot and edit content but if you can it’s also a bonus.

What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere

• Demonstrated experience in ideating and shaping social-first brand campaigns and content.
• Portfolio of live or spec work that shows social-first or integrated thinking beyond just traditional media.
• Conceptualised, created, and visualised content for social media platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Meta, Snapchat, X, YouTube, and other digital and social channels.
• Applied a passion for creativity, evident in both professional work and personal projects.
• Delivered fearless ideation, consistently approaching briefs with multiple high-volume concepts and generating numerous ideas per week or per campaign.
• Pursued original and novel concepts, tackling briefs with bold and inventive approaches.
• Exhibited strong technical skills, whether as an AI wizard, a copywriting expert, or through designing, shooting, and editing content- but your overall talent will be unexpected, on-brief conceptual ideas of all shapes and sizes.
• Maintained proactive curiosity about the social media landscape, staying ahead of trends, platform innovations, and contemporary content formats to produce ideas that achieve measurable audience impact.

What Else Are We Looking For?

• You are proactive, excited and endlessly curious about the most contemporary ways brands can be creative on social media and beyond.
• You are relentless in the pursuit for new, original, novel ideas and attack briefs with lots of fearless ways in.
• You have demonstrated the ability to ideate numerous concepts of all shapes and sizes at the speed of social, translating them into compelling decks that effectively sell work to clients.
• Applied deep understanding, passion, and curiosity for fast-moving, creator-led and brand-led social.
• Tapped into contemporary social content strategies, formats, and trends, with a strong understanding of how to navigate and leverage all levels of social platforms.
• The ability to independently manage and deliver projects through all phases.
• Delivered solutions-driven approaches and confidently vocalised ideas and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Commitment to continuous learning and adapting in a fast-evolving industry.
• Motivated to produce high-quality, innovative, and industry-leading work.

Benefits

Our Culture and the Nice Stuff

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL. Our Charter for Change in the UK  can be found here which details our focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2025.

Inclusion at every level is crucial to creative innovation and success, and we want to create a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We welcome and encourage talent from ALL backgrounds and are committed to creating a representative team that can deliver creative excellence. If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via [email protected]

So let’s get to the good stuff,  we offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world! 

But what’s life around here really like day-to-day? Well, we ask our people regularly what they think about us/their role and here are some of the most common things they say:

• I value my manager we have a good relationship
• We love to ‘get social’ with the people I work with
• Trusted to get on with the job, without ‘micro-management’!

If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?