Creative Director - Social

Big-Spaceship-2; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Big Spaceship in New York, NY is seeking a Creative Director who can shape audacious brand ideas and lead a diverse team across social, creator programs, events, and integrated campaigns. You'll work hands-on with content, shoot and edit on an iPhone, and guide teams to maintain a distinct, culturally fluent voice for multiple brands.

The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on creation. We value entrepreneurial spirit, risk-taking, and the ability to read the room and move between

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of creative leadership experience across social and full‑service campaigns.
• Expertise in shooting/editing social-first content, including iPhone workflows.
• Strong ability to adapt tone across brands and audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative vision across multi-brand work for social, creator programs, events, and campaigns.
• Champion culturally relevant ideas grounded in strategy for client meetings and pitches.
• Hands-on content creation and editing for native social experiences on iPhone.
• Inspire and mentor a diverse team of creatives and creators.
• Set a flexible voice to move between playful, elevated, and aspirational tones.
• Collaborate with strategy, account, production, and data to turn briefs into ideas.
• Drive breakthrough creative that delivers business impact and brand equity.

Job description

At Big Spaceship, we're explorers, not settlers. We partner with ambitious brands ready to venture into new territory, push creative boundaries, and lead rather than follow.

We're a full-service creative shop built for brands that want to break new ground. Our diverse team of entrepreneurial spirits, creative minds, and makers brings bold ideas to life for some of the world's most innovative and culturally connected brands. If you thrive on exploration, creative risk-taking, and charting new paths, you belong here.

We're seeking a Creative Director who brings range, cultural fluency, and an adaptable creative voice, and who lives in the feed. This person is ambitious about category-defining work and obsessed with doing what has never been done. They know how to read the room, move comfortably between different kinds of brands and audiences, and bring ideas to life across social, creators, events, and integrated campaigns. You'll be equally comfortable shaping the big idea, getting hands‑on with the work, presenting to clients, and leading a team of creatives and creators.

Roles + Responsibilities:

• Lead the creative vision and process across a multi-brand client, maintaining a high bar for the quality and consistency of the work across organic and paid social, creator programs, events, and integrated campaigns
• Develop and champion ideas that are culturally relevant and strategically grounded with a passion for social-first thinking, serving as a confident and thoughtful lead in client meetings, presentations, and pitches
• Be hands‑on including the ability to shoot and edit content on an iPhone and understand what makes social content feel native to the platform
• Oversee and inspire a team of creatives and creators, helping them do their best work while maintaining a cohesive creative point of view and working within an IAT
• Bring a flexible creative voice and the ability to move between different tones, from playful and unexpected to elevated and aspirational
• Partner with strategy, account, production and data teams to turn briefs and social performance insights into strong creative ideas
• Work fluidly across art, copy, design, creator and post-production with a strong point of view leading creative direction to ensure breakthrough creative that drives business impact for brands

• 8-10+ years of creative experience with experience leading both social always-on and full-service campaign work with comfort creating and editing social-first content yourself, including shooting on an iPhone
• Deep understanding of social platforms, stunts and activations including organic, paid social and leveraging creators and partnerships to drive maximum engagement
• Bring an entrepreneurial spirit and real ambition to make epic work, pushing brands toward ideas that have never been done in their category
• Strong conceptual and strategic abilities, with the ability to translate an idea across multiple channels and executions with social-first thinking and a publishing mindset with franchises, social series, stunt activations and unexpected partnerships
• Experience managing and mentoring creative teams and/or multidisciplinary creator teams with multiple stakeholders and hundreds of assets at scale
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the poise and judgment to build trust with clients and act as a consiglierie to develop the best work
• Proven ability to collaborate across creative, strategy, account, production, and other disciplines
• Strong understanding of brand voice and the ability to adapt creatively to different brands and audiences

The salary band for this role is $160,000 - $180,000. Where a prospective new hire's base salary will fall within this band depends on several factors including their qualifications and experience, the skill level required in the role, market rates, and the salaries of existing crew members at SPCSHP within the same role to maintain equity.