Creative Freelance Lead

Summary

Join Collectively's Creative team as a Freelance Creative Lead and help set the standard for creative excellence. This is a general application for future freelance opportunities; applying adds you to their talent pool for consideration. You will lead creative ideation, partnering with cross-functional teams to develop innovative campaign concepts centered on social media creators. Responsibilities include actively participating in briefings, developing content and campaign concepts for multiple social media channels, and supporting narrative and design for presentations. You'll need at least 8 years of related experience, a supportive management approach, a strong professional network, and expertise in social media and creators. Passion for pop culture and strong communication skills are also essential.

Requirements

• At least 8 years related experience on creative teams at marketing/advertising agencies or in-house at brands—social-first is a plus
• Supportive, people-first approach to management and creative feedback delivery
• Relentless curiosity and demonstrated expertise in social media and creators/influencers, across established and emerging platforms
• Passion for pop culture and keeping up with emerging social, political, and aesthetic trends
• Expertise in delivering high-impact content for social, across platforms and formats
• Proven ability to ideate quickly and develop multiple concepts
• Strong aesthetic POV and ability to quickly understand brand voice and identity
• Great communication skills, with the ability to both provide and receive creative feedback and land a compelling pitch—both internally among colleagues and externally with clients and creators
• Ability to work efficiently across a variety of assignments and manage time appropriately
• Collaborative working style with positive attitude and enthusiasm for making great work happen!

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in briefings, providing Creative leadership perspective
• Develop content and campaign concepts for multiple social media channels and content formats across core + emergent platforms
• Support narrative, design and image selection for high-impact presentation decks and other materials

Preferred Qualifications

Strong professional network of creative talent—art direction/design, copywriting, editing, animation, etc.—is a plus