HEAD OF CREATIVE - SOCIAL

Maverick Content Studio LLC; Winter Park, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Flexible hours

4 weeks vacation + 14 holidays

Professional development reimbursement

Fitness and wellness reimbursement

In-office 2 days/week at Winter Park,

Job summary

Maverick Content Studio LLC is seeking a Head of Creative to set the studio-wide creative vision and act as the final quality gate for all work. You will lead a team of producers, writers, shooters, editors, and designers, guiding them from concept to delivery and ensuring output meets top standards for social-first content.

The role requires 8+ years in creative leadership, a strong portfolio, and executive presence to drive business outcomes and client confidence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in creative leadership roles (owning the creative product).
• Portfolio showing best-in-class brand/design craft and social-first content.
• Track record of building and mentoring teams with strong feedback.
• Executive judgment to balance ambition, budget, and business outcomes.
• Deep fluency in social/digital platforms and how formats drive engagement.
• Craft mastery and ability to art-direct teams using industry tools.

Responsibilities

• Set Maverick's creative vision and standards for output.
• Lead and grow the creative team, including internal and freelance talent.
• Partner with leadership to shape strategy, pitches, and client work.
• Direct and supervise production from concept to delivery, ensuring top quality.

Skills

Creative leadership

Team leadership

Brand and design craft

Executive presence

Social/digital platforms

Pitching to clients

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

After Effects

Frame.io

Job description

Maverick Content Studio is a full-service social media agency for travel and entertainment brands. We're looking for our Head of Creative, reporting directly to the CEO. You'll set the creative vision for the entire studio, be the final bar on quality for every piece of work that leaves the building, build and lead the team that makes it, and sit on the leadership team helping decide where Maverick goes next.

This is not a social media strategy role - we have a dedicated team for that.

We’re looking for an experienced creative leader who will set the standard for Maverick’s idea engine and creative production, helping us create the best social-first content in the world.

What you’ll own

The standard for creativity and ideation. Y ou raise the bar on everything from the monthly content that keeps brands alive to the big ideas that break through — campaigns, platforms, and earned moments people actually share. You set the standard for great at Maverick: social-first thinking that stops the scroll, earns fans, and gets talked about. And you let what performs sharpen what's next.

Expert brand and social creative leadership. You're a marketing creative leader who knows how creative builds brands and drives business, and you bring the craft to match: best-in-class decks, tight brand systems, work that's on-strategy every time.

Next-level creative production and design. You will lead our talented creative team of producers, writers, shooters, editors, and designers, from concept to delivery. Nothing ships that isn't best in class. You know when to plus up with cinematic production and when to go raw or meme down for social.

Team leadership. You build and lead the creative team. You hire and source the best social-first creatives around— internal and freelance — and get their best work out of them with clear direction and honest feedback. The creative team grows because of your coaching and direction.

Executive agency leadership. You take a seat at the leadership table: what work we take and what we pass, where creativity goes next, and how we build to get there — including the creative playbooks that help us scale without dropping the standard. You partner with our PMs and social strategists, represent creative to our biggest clients, and lead the creative on new‑business pitches.

What you bring

This is a senior leadership role, and the bar is set there:

• 8+ years in creative, including significant time actually leading a creative function or team; you've owned the creative product, not just executed on it.
• A portfolio that proves both sides: best-in-class brand and design craft and high-performing, social-first video and content. Not one or the other.
• A track record of building teams, hiring, mentoring, and sourcing top-tier internal and freelance talent, and giving the hard feedback that makes work better.
• Executive judgment. You can look at an opportunity and know whether it's right for us, price the creative ambition against reality, and connect creative decisions to business outcomes.
• Deep fluency in social and digital platforms, formats, storytelling, and what actually drives engagement (YouTube, IG, TikTok, X, podcasts, and whatever's next).
• Command of the craft and the tools, and the ability to art-direct the people using them (Adobe Creative Cloud, After Effects, Frame.io, etc.).
• Exceptional executive presence: you pitch bold ideas and win the room, with clients.

Our culture

• Keep Maverick Hungry. Entrepreneurial spirit: you think differently and get great work done.
• Keep Maverick Humble. No ego, all craft. Good judgment, here to win together.
• Keep Maverick Radical. You never take yourself too seriously while doing best-in-class work.

Why Maverick

• Comp: $125 - 140k annually + annual performance bonus
• Flexible hours with an emphasis on a results-driven culture
• 4 weeks paid vacation + 14 paid holidays, which include Christmas week
• Annual professional development reimbursement - courses, conferences, and more ($500)
• Annual fitness and wellness reimbursement - equipment, shoes, membership, etc. ($500)
• In-office Tuesdays and Thursdays at Maverick HQ in Winter Park, FL, plus client shoots as needed. Some light travel for shoots.