Senior Social Creative Team - Art & Copy

Team: Social

Location: London

Contact type: 12 month FTC

Full Time/Part time: Full Time

Reporting into: Creative Director

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&I 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.

The opportunity:

We’re looking for a culturally connected, idea-driven Senior Creative Team (art & copy) to join our social team, people who love TikTok trends, memes, and turning cultural moments into standout content. You’ll work across a mix of always-on, planned, and reactive content, leading creative thinking and collaborating with a close-knit team of production, strategists and other creatives.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a team who love the buzz and creativity of social and who knows how to turn community behaviour or trending sounds into sharp, smart content that brands can own.

The role:

• Leading creative concepts for social content across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.

• Coming up with scroll-stopping concepts — from evergreen to reactive — and owning them through from idea to execution.

• Writing sharp, on-brand copy and short-form scripts that match the energy of each platform and speak directly to the audience.

• Lead campaign ideation across masterbrand, partnerships/rewards, and proactive moments, taking ideas from early concepts through to delivery

• Spotting cultural moments, trends and conversations — and finding smart ways for brands to join in.

• Staying up to date with evolving platform features, formats, and audience behaviours — and using that knowledge to keep our ideas fresh and format-fit.

• Confidently presenting your ideas internally and to clients, making a strong case for brave and culturally relevant work.

• A love of big, business and world-changing ideas, and a desire to contribute to shaping them

About the team:

Our social team is a dynamic, cross functional team within Ogilvy UK, dedicated to working across multiple brands.

This role is to identify opportunities with our clients and to inject it cultural depth.

Our social team has a strong partnership relationship with its clients and we want to continue building, strategising, and developing creative ideas together to ensure the production of high-quality, fast, nimble, and agile work.

We also focus on new brand strategies, refreshed brand identities, and newly defined behaviours which it will execute across social channels.

How we help you thrive:

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day

• Bupa Healthcare

• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave

• We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm

• A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure

• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership plus Dental cover, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year

• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme

• Life Assurance

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.

We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.

If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.