Careers

Social Art Director

Ogilvy
Tirana, Albania
Job Posted Date: February 27, 2024
Deparment:
Ogilvy
Location:
Tirana, Albania
Contact type:
12-Month Fixed Term Contract
Full Time/Part time:
Full Time
Reporting into:
PMO Lead

About Ogilvy:  

 Our vision is to inspire brands and people to impact the world. To create big ideas that make a significant contribution to the planet, society, and the bottom line. We believe in today’s world this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth. We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas.  

Which is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities: Advertising, Consulting, Experience, PR & Influencer, and Health. This allows us to not only operate but innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent. We believe impact and magic lies at this intersection. Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.  

The result is multifaceted ideas for our clients that drive impact and are born from the intersection of platform x culture x technology.  

We call this Borderless Creativity.  

Ogilvy was ranked the number one UK agency at D&AD and was the only UK agency to win a Glass Lions at Cannes. Ogilvy was also nominated network of the year in Cannes Lions, Campaign, Effie Awards EMEA, London International Awards, The One Show and WARC Rankings.  

In 2022, Ogilvy was the most creatively awarded agency globally – including the most awarded agency at the Clio Awards, DMA Awards, Influencer Marketing Awards, London International Awards and The One Show.  

Ogilvy UK’s PR practice won large agency of the year at the PR Week awards. And our Consulting practice was in the Forbes 2022 list of best management consultancy firms.

Overview

You are a crucial part of BEAT, working closely with the Creative, Business, Strategy and Delivery teams.
You are a social media native, with an insatiable appetite for understanding the constantly evolving landscape and its corresponding native customer behaviors.
You are a pop-culture junkie who’s curious about everything — you have your finger on the pulse of the internet and always keen to know what people are talking about, whether its fashion, music, trends, technology, emerging platforms, social concerns, even before it starts trending.
You are a born dot-connector, who relishes the opportunity to collaborate with content, marketing, PR, creative and product teams to create engaging content that’s a conversation starter. In short, you live and breathe social media, both, as a creator and a consumer.

Accountabilities:
Partnering with other creators/team members and work closely with the Creative, Business and Strategy Lead to get to the right briefs that deliver remarkable and innovative ideas across social platforms.
Engage in near and long-term creative strategies for Instagram.
Conceive, create, and launch new content ideas for owned platforms, but mainly for Instagram.
Create assets for regular posts. Contribute to the development of a content/editorial calendar to support brand, marketing and business goals.
Adhere to and evolve best-practice techniques and standards (image specs, engagement and deployment strategies) for each platform and asset type
Deploy work across social platforms, as needed
Translate sometimes one-way brand work into video/motion and graphic social content concepts that spark conversations and work collaboratively with video animator/editors to execute
Prep/run simple shoots, liaise with directors/photographers and manage shoot process from concept through to execution in collaboration with a Producer
Leverage social media learnings and performance data to pivot and optimize posting and content strategies
Focus on continual improvement and optimization of creative product and processes to ensure best quality outcomes and efficiency

Core Duties:
Creative excellence is essential. Plus, you must have dedication, persistence, and passion for the speed and evolution of social media. Your knowledge of the platforms should be deep enough that you know how to push them to their limits.
Solid understanding of Albanian social landscape, audience, culture, trends, etc.
Excellent in Art Direction, aesthetics.
They should be a great problem-solver and flexible to adapt to the ever-evolving climate of social media.
Have been working in a similar position for at least 3 years, be hands on, and be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team, in a faced paced atmosphere.
Must embrace design/ creative innovation in the social space
Experience designing for static & moving contents.
Great communication skills, written & verbal, when it comes to directing or presenting design concepts.