Social Art Director

About the roleAs the Social Art Director you are someone who is never short of creative ideas and the drive to bring them to life, with a strong understanding of what makes successful social content. As an Art Director, you’ll ensure every brief is executed to maximise commercial impact and align with our brand standards, seamlessly reflecting our brand’s creative vision. Reporting into the Senior Social Art Director and with direct partnership with the social team, you’ll have a background in social-first art direction, with specific experience in either fashion, beauty or home.

Working at pace with the social marketing team, you’ll deliver innovative content across multiple categories including Womenswear, Menswear, Beauty, Home and Tech, as well as adapting seasonal brand campaigns.

You will work to create content that is imaginative, thoughtful and brand building while being true to the brand’s visual tone of voice, and best practices for social content. You’ll have a solid understanding of the nuances of social platforms, which will underpin all of your creative output. The Social Art Director is a true 360 creative who is equally confident concepting through to self shooting, editing and generating social first graphics. You are aware of cultural moments, have impeccable taste levels, and are curious by nature. You are able to understand key social metrics and use reporting and insight to inform future work.

• Expected salary - £42,700 - £55,000 (dependent on experience) 

• Contract type - This position is a 12 month Secondment / Fixed Term Contract

• Working pattern / flexible working - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The Creative team aims for around 2 days a week in the office to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings. 

• Location -  This role is based at our London Head Office campus in Pimlico. Please note, any cost incurred as a result of travel to the office is the responsibility of the successful candidate. There is no travel allowance for this role. There is also a responsibility to visit our John Lewis branches when necessary. You will be able to claim travel expenses for these journeys. 

• Next steps - The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions and a portfolio upload. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. There is a 2 stage interview process for this vacancy.

Key responsibilities

• Develop daily content and campaigns that resonate with our online community, drives social engagement, and fits into brand tone of voice

• Learning from previous projects, reviewing key metrics and adapting creative to generate further engagement

• Work as part of a broader team consisting of social marketeers and the wider content and creative team

• Keep up to date with global cultural and social trends as well as industry nuances to create innovative ideas and concepts

• Working cross functionally with the wider creative team to adapt campaigns for social media

• Maintain quality of work across all platforms ensuring it is to a high standard and consistent with brand tone of voice

• Research and present trends within social media including possible collaborators and technology that could deliver content

• Develop and deliver social content from concept through to post-production. Overseeing each step of the process at pace and ensuring it is brand appropriate

Essential skills/experience you’ll need

• Proven experience in art direction and content creation for social media

• Adobe Premier, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Creative Suite, Final cut pro, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, TikTok, Instagram, FB, Pinterest

• ● Knowledge in camera operations, including lighting as well as post production including editing, grading, graphics and sound

• A portfolio showing social first work ideally within the fashion, beauty or lifestyle industry

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About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting. If required, you’ll find out more about vetting throughout the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.