Social Art Director

• Lead the creative for social-first projects with pioneering ideas, guiding the team through the entire process, from concept to delivery.
• Be the social creative voice in the room: Collaborate with internal and external creatives to ensure ideas are social-first, providing suggestions, and teaming up for campaign extensions.
• Serve as the Art Director on set for photoshoots and video shoots, ensuring the content captures the quality and aligns with the intended channels.
• Understand video editing techniques and tailor different outputs specifically for various platforms.
• Lead and closely collaborate with partners, providing them with the necessary information to ensure their output aligns with our brand values, essence, and aesthetic.
• Manage, guide, and nurture junior team members, ensuring they understand their responsibilities, feel comfortable creating, and receive support in career development.
• Be the point of contact for status updates on projects you work on directly and indirectly (within your team).
• Work closely with the Social and Marketing teams to shape social strategies, review partners, and challenge briefs to balance creative and business needs.
• Stay on top of content trends, possible collaborators, and technology that can deliver innovative content for our platforms.
• Collaborate with production teams to ensure the feasibility of ideas while maintaining strong, solution-oriented relationships with the broader team, overcoming barriers, and aligning your vision with Burberry standards.
• Develop mood boards, present ideas, and lead shoots with a strong understanding of the social media landscape to ensure cohesive, innovative, and well-communicated content.

• A highly motivated creative with a strong eye for detail and for design, imagery, storytelling, and talent selection, and extensive understanding of the social media landscape.
• Solid experience as an Art Director directing stills and chiefly video with channel-specific considerations, with a robust portfolio demonstrating social-first ideas, impeccable craft, and taste-experience within the fashion industry is preferred.
• Ability to conceptualize ideas and manage shoot productions with limited direction; ability to communicate vision verbally and through presentations to senior stakeholders; a confident creative point of view with the ability to listen, think, and propose at an unprecedented pace.
• Knowledge of social-first creators, photographers, set designers, and other collaborators, along with an understanding of design processes and how to brief graphic, motion, and 3D designers.
• Proven ability to encourage and motivate internal and external partners, experience managing junior team members, and an inclusive team player with a positive, "can-do" attitude.
• Highly organized and able to manage and lead multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize efficiently with tight deadlines, and ensure follow-through; proficiency in Photoshop and editing software is essential; background in fields such as Design, Fashion Communication, Video, Photography, and so on.

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