Senior Social Creative Producer at VaynerMedia

We’re VaynerMedia! We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City. We are recognized for our work in Cannes Lions, the Clios, D&AD and The Webbies to name a few. 

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly 250+, servicing multi-brands across the region.

The PITCH.

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Social Creative Producer who has a robust understanding of social media and global, fully integrated campaigns, experience with production and a strong project management and operation skillset to help support the day to day running of one of the agency's biggest and most exciting accounts. We would love someone who has experience in both project management and production and feels confident in both spaces. This is an always on role that moves daily, putting out creative content at a fast pace, while also planning larger campaign initiatives.

Here’s where you come in…

• Take the lead on the day to day planning and managing large, complex programmes of work with many work streams in their entirety, from brief to delivery.
• Taking your plan and making it a reality by mobilising the best teams (internal and external) around the vision, and providing a clear picture of expected outcomes.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management and execution of the social production, both internally and with clients, working closely with each member of the team ensuring each milestone is met on time and within budget.
• You’ll work closely with your Creative Lead to deliver the strongest possible social work, partnering with the wider creative team to give them the support they need to produce work of the highest quality
• Tracking all content throughout the social production process, supported by a more junior member of your team
• Resource management for your teams alongside the Creative Director and Resource Manager 
• Financial progression, ensuring it is shared and assessed, taking the lead in suggesting and making adjustments to the project and team as needed
• Partner with the Account, Strategy, and Creative leads to ensure client expectations, creative vision, and agency needs are met from briefing through final delivery on projects
• Constantly identifying risks and solutions - being the problem solver in ensuring we remain agile and strategic throughout the project lifecycle
• May require managing a PM to support the project that you would lead
• Partner and support our internal creators to execute work to the best quality 
• Oversee production budgets, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and within budget
• Organise and run pre-production phases including pre-production meetings
• Manage the post-production and delivery of assets through to final delivery, including tracking status and compliance of everything we produce
• Lead and schedule necessary project-related meetings such as kickoffs, brainstorms, and reviews, and ensure the right people are seeing the right things before going to client
• Be client-facing to speak to budget, timing, resource & process considerations
• Write client SOWs, vendor agreements, change orders, and other contract documents
• Ensure Agency, Client, Vendor, and Legal processes and requirements are being met
• Overall, being solutions-focused; the go-to person to assess challenges, always identifying the opportunity for possibility
• Be the first point of escalation for issue/conflict resolution on all projects
• Grow relationships, have fun and participate in VaynerMedia social engagement

We treasure Personality and Experience yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what WE KNOW as a success:

• Understanding of different channels, including relevant social media platforms and their requirements
• A positive, cool, calm and collected approach to problem-solving
• Hands-on experience and ownership of complex, multi-stream projects, requiring senior stakeholder management 
• You’re comfortable speaking up and providing clear direction in the room when the team needs it.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Budget development and contract (SOW) writing experience
• Ability to recognise and solve potential problems, escalate issues or conflicts and continually evaluate project effectiveness.
• Manage overall quality of project delivery and documentation for the account
• A strong understanding of creative development and asset creation processes
• Ability to thrive and remain agile in a fast-paced environment
• Strong self-awareness and people-management skills

Here’s how We Support You

We regularly review our benefits and are committed to providing a comprehensive programme for our people.

• Unlimited Holiday + 1 Day Birthday Leave
• YuLife (online discount platform)
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Unlimited Coaching sessions, which can be private and team class sessions
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Program (Financial, Mental and Physical Wellbeing)
• Cash Plan with Medicash - Level 1 cover, option to add partner, 4 children can be added for free
• Virtual GP, Skinvision, 24/7 Health and Stress Helplines, Discounted Gym, Medicash Extras
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Group Personal Pension

What you SHOULD KNOW about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class. 

Candidates must be authorised to work in the U.K.