Story Lead
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Location: Los Angeles, CA 90011
Description:
Story Lead
Department: Narrative / Story
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Los Angeles
Description
Day One Agency-AdAge's #4 on the A-List -is hiring!
We're looking for a Group SVP, Story to join our growing Creative team. The successful candidate is ambitious, curious, and creative. A storyteller at your core, you thrive on audience connection regardless of the medium. You take pride in your work, sweat the small stuff, ask for forgiveness not permission, and go the extra mile (or three) to ensure you are doing your best work.
We're looking for self-starters who are excited to collaborate with our squad within a rewarding learning environment. Day one prides itself on being a place to grow and further your career.
Our company culture is at the core of everything we do. It's what makes every day, Day One. We offer a highly collaborative environment where smart, passionate people come together to solve creative challenges. We work hard on the things we love. It's how we produced e.l.f. SKIN's first-ever global brand campaign based on cultural insights that our team unlocked and how we honed in on the legacy of both Nike and Converse to contextualize each brand's heritage with creative that resonates with the next generation.
Our relationships power us. Our colleagues, clients, and partners are the most important part of our business. If you want to join a fast-growing, award-winning, creative team, we'd love to hear from you.
This role is full-time, requires a hybrid work schedule, and is available only in Los Angeles.
Responsibilities
As the Group SVP, Story, you will represent a mix of creative thinking and strategic reasoning alongside strong communication skills to articulate not only ideas but also the value behind them. As a senior member of the team, you will work across verticals and conceptual ideation, leading the charge on projects and providing your expertise to all components of the process-assessing project feasibility, assigning work, resourcing, project planning, and leading clients.
You will be a driver of great creative. A problem solver with experience that allows you to guide a range of executions across briefs that lean into culture and social excellence. The world of storytelling is an ever changing one with new needs for our clients arising daily-from short form, and lo-fi creative on TikTok and Reels to more conceptual narrative video in OLV. In this role you will:
Qualifications
Compensation + Benefits
We value all of our employees and are happy to provide comprehensive benefits to help support them holistically in the best way we can. We offer all our employees:
The Company is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base compensation range for this role is $220,000-$260,000 and this position is eligible for benefits that include medical insurance (health, dental, and vision), retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, new business and employee referral bonuses, etc. Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for New York City based hires only and is provided pursuant to the New York City Pay Transparency Law. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as candidates' relevant work experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
Department: Narrative / Story
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Los Angeles
Description
Day One Agency-AdAge's #4 on the A-List -is hiring!
We're looking for a Group SVP, Story to join our growing Creative team. The successful candidate is ambitious, curious, and creative. A storyteller at your core, you thrive on audience connection regardless of the medium. You take pride in your work, sweat the small stuff, ask for forgiveness not permission, and go the extra mile (or three) to ensure you are doing your best work.
We're looking for self-starters who are excited to collaborate with our squad within a rewarding learning environment. Day one prides itself on being a place to grow and further your career.
Our company culture is at the core of everything we do. It's what makes every day, Day One. We offer a highly collaborative environment where smart, passionate people come together to solve creative challenges. We work hard on the things we love. It's how we produced e.l.f. SKIN's first-ever global brand campaign based on cultural insights that our team unlocked and how we honed in on the legacy of both Nike and Converse to contextualize each brand's heritage with creative that resonates with the next generation.
Our relationships power us. Our colleagues, clients, and partners are the most important part of our business. If you want to join a fast-growing, award-winning, creative team, we'd love to hear from you.
This role is full-time, requires a hybrid work schedule, and is available only in Los Angeles.
Responsibilities
As the Group SVP, Story, you will represent a mix of creative thinking and strategic reasoning alongside strong communication skills to articulate not only ideas but also the value behind them. As a senior member of the team, you will work across verticals and conceptual ideation, leading the charge on projects and providing your expertise to all components of the process-assessing project feasibility, assigning work, resourcing, project planning, and leading clients.
You will be a driver of great creative. A problem solver with experience that allows you to guide a range of executions across briefs that lean into culture and social excellence. The world of storytelling is an ever changing one with new needs for our clients arising daily-from short form, and lo-fi creative on TikTok and Reels to more conceptual narrative video in OLV. In this role you will:
- Be a thought-partner for senior-level clients by understanding their unique business objectives and developing digital communications strategies to meet those goals
- Attract, develop and deploy creative talent to ensure the best storytelling comes to life
- Lead creative, strategic alignment, staffing, and client relationships for projects that will touch owned social channels
- Maintain current knowledge of trends, the competitive landscape, and confidently provide strategic point-of-views to the client
- Be an expert storyteller, ensuring content is creative and engaging across social channels
- Direct the team and other departments to lead project delivery, adhering to timelines, budget, and scope
- Partner with internal team members to try to over deliver against client goals and projects delivered on time and on budget.
- Create strategic plans, decks and presentations on behalf of agency and its clients, including generating ongoing new ideas and value beyond the scope of current client assignments
- Build and lead interagency teams and client relationships
- Be forward thinking, anticipating what is next and planning for the future
- Serve on the leadership team, drive office culture and be a mentor to staff
- Partner with Production on the estimate of budgets and scope works for your client partners
- Thrive in a diverse environment and contribute to the overall culture of Day One
Qualifications
- 15+ years agency experience in creative roles, managing or contributing to the creative ideation and campaign/asset execution
- Highly organized and systematic when it comes to creative management, including the ability to multi-task and prioritize workload with quick turnarounds
- Experience managing and motivating large teams
- Energetic leader with strong work ethic and excellent collaboration skills
- Penchant for building enduring client relationships and inspiring client confidence
- Experience making commercial decisions and identifying growth opportunities
- Ability to think through both tactics and the big picture
- Ability to ideate and articulate the why and the how
- Understanding of both major and emerging social platforms
- Excellent written/verbal communication
- Excellent communication & presentation skills
- Excellent leadership and problem solving skills, able to comfortably contribute to and iterate on creative ideas
- Deep existing network of partners - production companies, directors, content creators, and freelancers
- Passion for people, organization, and excitement to collaborate in a fast-paced team environment
- Self-motivated, organized, and reliable
- Bachelor's Degree
Compensation + Benefits
We value all of our employees and are happy to provide comprehensive benefits to help support them holistically in the best way we can. We offer all our employees:
- Health Care (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Paid Time Off and Company Paid Holidays
- Summer Fridays
- 401K Retirement Plan with Company Match
- Lifestyle Spending Account
- Paid Parental Leave
- Commuter Benefits
- Company Credit Card
- Uber Business Account
- New Business Referral Bonus
- Employee Referral Bonus
The Company is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base compensation range for this role is $220,000-$260,000 and this position is eligible for benefits that include medical insurance (health, dental, and vision), retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, new business and employee referral bonuses, etc. Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for New York City based hires only and is provided pursuant to the New York City Pay Transparency Law. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as candidates' relevant work experience, skills, qualifications, and location.