Associate Creative Director, Art (Social)

Praytell is a creative communications agency powered by teams with strategic minds and spirited hearts. We craft timely, integrated campaigns that make headlines across social, earned, digital, and beyond. After a decade of delivering award-winning work, we know one thing for certain - we’re just getting started!

As an Associate Creative Director, Art (Social) you will be:

• Leading social-first creative strategies that drive brand storytelling across platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts, with an emphasis on short-form video and design-forward content.
• Crafting concepts for real-time cultural conversations through creative visuals and ideas that respond quickly to trends, ensuring brands stay relevant and innovative in a fast-moving social landscape.
• Collaborating with the Creative and Account Teams to craft strategies that resonate with target audiences, leveraging platform-specific trends to engage users authentically.
• Developing moodboards, creative benchmarks, and POVs as part of the discovery process, aligning design direction with client goals, and presenting these as strategic deliverables.
• Driving concept-to-execution oversight for digital and social campaigns, ensuring design work across multiple clients remains consistent, innovative, and true to brand identity.
• Brainstorming and executing ways to elevate social content, blending conceptual thinking with hands-on design execution to ensure that creative output stands out on cutting-edge digital platforms.
• Fostering a culture of creativity and innovation within the team by mentoring designers, providing constructive feedback, and promoting an environment where new ideas are encouraged and explored.
• Collaborating across departments with designers, copywriters, social strategists, and other creatives to ensure a cohesive, multi-disciplinary approach to campaign execution.
• Ensuring projects meet the highest standards of quality and creativity by reviewing and approving final deliverables, while jumping into the design process when needed.
• Staying ahead of social media trends, particularly in short-form video and user experience, to inform creative direction and strategy, making sure the work remains fresh, relevant, and culturally resonant.
• Reporting directly to the VP, Group Creative Director and working together to craft future social products in collaboration with the other departments.

Experience you have:

• You have 6-8 years of experience in a social-first creative environment, with at least two years in a senior design role. Experience in a social agency or in-house social team is highly preferred.
• A portfolio showcasing your mastery of design across social media platforms, with a focus on short-form video and design-forward storytelling.
• Proven experience leading design projects from concept through to execution across a variety of brands, with a keen understanding of engaging with cultural moments.
• You’re passionate about storytelling through platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts.
• A strong collaborator, you’ve worked closely with copywriters, social strategists, and project managers to develop cohesive creative campaigns.
• You have an expert understanding of the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma while not being afraid to pick up a camera or dive into in-app video content creation when needed.
• A big bonus if you bring a strong understanding of sports and tech spaces, with the ability to craft engaging content that resonates within these industries.

Equally important, you are:

• Ambitious & entrepreneurial
• Flexible & adaptable
• Meticulous & organized
• Creative thinker & problem solver
• Inquisitive & eager to learn
• Collaborative & team-oriented
• Honest & ethical
• Committed to diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging

• Salary Range: $125,000 - $140,000 (Compensation may vary based on factors such as experience, expertise, skills, and abilities.)
• Comprehensive health insurance with very low premium options
• Employee stock ownership plan, earning shares in Project Worldwide, our parent company, for every year of service
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) options with annual employer contributions based on company performance
• Four-day workweek (we expect all employees to hit 40 hours by Friday)
• Flexible time off, including over a dozen company holidays and mental health days
• Remote work within the US (with offices and physical hubs that you can access in LA, SF, Austin, Chicago, and NYC)
• Employee assistance program offering mental health resources, family and relationship support, career resources, legal and financial services, discounts, and more
• Paid parental leave and fertility support programs
• Training and team-building programs and activities
• Camp Praytell, our annual company offsite (eligibility based on employee start date)
• Access to our wonderful employee resource groups
• And more!

Interview Process

• Submit Application
• Phone Screen (30 minutes)
• Team Interview (30 minutes - 1 hour)
• Final Interview with Leadership (30-45 minutes)
• Skills Test (TBD)
• Offer
• Target Start Date: December

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome everyone to our company without discrimination. All qualified applicants will be considered in accordance with federal law requirements, and because it's the right thing to do. We adhere to applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment at all our locations, and we strictly prohibit any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.