Creative Director Content Lead

24 Seven Talent; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

24 Seven Talent represents a creative agency seeking a Creative Director (Content) to lead the content studio in Houston. The role focuses on setting standards, developing talent, and delivering high-quality social, video, and editorial content on schedule.

This senior leadership position requires 9+ years in social/editorial content or creative production, experience leading 10+ people, and a proven ability to partner with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in social content, editorial content or creative production.
• Experience managing other leads or managers.
• Proven record in social/video content and long-form writing.
• Led a multi-disciplinary team of 10+ people.
• Set and enforced a consistent brand voice across formats and channels.
• Strong organizational and people leadership skills.
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders.
• Collaborative and calm under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a creative team and set editorial standards.
• Coach the three senior leads and grow their leadership skills.
• Set creative direction for the pod as platforms evolve.
• Ensure quality and consistency across social, video and written content.
• Serve as senior point of escalation for creative and editorial decisions.
• Collaborate with VP of Operations on staffing and team structure.
• Coordinate with Integrated Producers to align capacity with briefs.
• Represent the team's capacity and output to executives.
• Identify opportunities to raise the bar and streamline workflows.

Skills

Creative leadership

Team coaching

Content strategy

Editorial writing

Social/video content

Brand voice enforcement

Job description

Our client, a creative agency is seeking a Creative Director (Content). The expectation for this position is 40 hours per week, full-time hours commitment, with access to benefits. Must be able to work onsite in Houston Texas 4 days a week.

We're growing the team supporting an exciting brand’s content studio — a set of small, agile creative pods that own work end-to-end, from executive and internal communications to social, digital and editorial content. The role can be based remotely or onsite at the client's studio.

OVERVIEW

This is a senior leadership role responsible for setting creative standards, developing talent, and making sure the team's collective output — social, video and written content alike — is consistently on-brand, high quality and delivered on time. Rather than reviewing every piece of content personally, the Content Team Lead leads through the three senior leads, coaching them to raise the bar within their own teams.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Lead and develop a creative team, and setting the creative and editorial standard the wider team works to
• Coach and develop the three senior leads, helping them grow their own team-leadership, mentorship and quality-review skills
• Set creative direction and best practices for the pod, keeping the team aligned as platforms, formats and client priorities evolve
• Spot-check and calibrate quality across the team's social, video and written content to ensure consistency in tone, brand voice and creative standard
• Serve as the senior point of escalation for creative and editorial decisions across the team
• Partner with the VP of Operations on staffing, capacity and team structure as the creative team scales
• Partner with Integrated Producers to ensure creative capacity is aligned with incoming briefs and production timelines
• Represent the creative team's capacity, quality and output to the VP of Operations
• Identify opportunities to develop talent, streamline creative workflows and raise the bar across the team

WHAT MAKES YOU QUALIFIED

• 9+ years of experience across social content, editorial content or creative production, with senior or lead experience in an agency or in-house creative environment
• Experience managing or developing other team leads or managers, not only individual contributors — this role leads leaders
• Strong personal track record spanning both social/video content and long-form or editorial writing
• Demonstrated ability to lead a larger, multi-disciplinary creative team (10+ people across direct and indirect reports)
• Excellent creative judgment and the ability to set and enforce a consistent brand voice across formats and channels
• Strong organizational and people-leadership skills, comfortable coaching senior individual leads rather than only junior staff
• Comfortable partnering with senior stakeholders, including the VP of Operations and client comms/compliance partners
• Collaborative and calm under pressure, with the confidence to drive accountability across a full creative team