Digitas is a highly-caffeinated playground where brilliant minds come together to make bold, award-winning marketing. We use data-driven insights to guide our work, but we also believe in a healthy dose of spirited storytelling as we strive to transform the marketing landscape.

Are you a social native? Passionate about all aspects of social from content creation to paid media and boosting? Do you have experience managing social teams and growing social business within the SG market and across the APAC region?

We are looking for a Social Director to join our team in Singapore. You will manage all aspects of social accounts across Singapore and APAC markets - leading teams of community managers, creative, strategy and production to create cutting edge work for brands including Coke, Kinder, UOB and more.

Your goal will be to find fast, efficient, creative and effective ways to explore the multiple dimensions of social media, test new opportunities, and empower your teams to deliver success for our clients. The ideal candidate will offer a unique blend of creative instincts, social media marketing aptitude, measurement and executive management skills.

This role provides the opportunity to build and direct an in-house team, work with agencies, and partner with social media platforms and will report into of our head of business leadership in the Singapore office.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Empowering a team to develop and optimize strategic, marketing plans and associated budget/scope across campaigns and channels.  Working hand-in-hand with our media teams.
• Lead the development and direct the implementation of a wide range of content forms, including video, text, still imagery, animation, live action and other content forms that best utilize the technology available on any given social media/digital platform.
• Provide inspirational and creative thought leadership on ways to reach and gain attention of target audiences.
• Lead the innovation goals and operational model of the social discipline as well as sustain existing clients, win new clients and scale for growth.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic Social Director with:

• 7+ years experience working in a digital / social agency

• A passion/understanding of the key social platforms in SG and APAC markets, with an emphasis on building relationships with these key partners and the social discipline within the agency.

• Expertise in Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter and social listening and content creation tools and platforms

• A Highly Organised and Agile Approach, for both one market, and multi-market social operations

• Client Servicing Experience, Sales expertise, and an ability to mentor a growing team

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.

• The ideal candidate will be a combination of business leader, visionary, inventor, builder, and operator

We are The Connected Marketing Agency. A strategic partner that guides brands to make meaningful connections with extraordinary outcomes. Our purpose is to deliver Truth, Connection and Wonder. Truth. Being data-driven, informed by real human behaviour. We create authentic experiences inspired by insights. We believe in transparency in our business practises. Connection. We connect the ecosystem between brands and consumers through all marketing touchpoints…digital, physical, emerging. We connect with partners, sister agencies and clients for unconventional solutions. Wonder. By approaching challenges with excitement, imagination and a sense of what’s possible. Our ideas excite, open eyes, provoke, move people in transformational ways.

We are designed, through approach, workplace, and model to bring together experts in brands, data, technology, media, content, creative and CRM across the world. Our 6,000 diverse talents include technology, data and media experts as well as creative, customer and commercial specialists. Our unicorns are dedicated to helping our clients navigate their own marketing transformation delivering work that resonates with audiences around the world.

The way we do this is by connecting datasets that reveal people’s choices, preferences and attitudes through millions of signals in what they do each day. We pride ourselves on having one of the most innovative strategy teams in the business. Our goal to design the right end-to-end customer journey – people are at the centre of everything we do and data is the fuel. Our clients regularly sing our praises, and who can blame them: from several of the world’s largest banks to household names in travel, shopping, food, and leisure, our work is broad and innovative. But we are interested in more than just best-in-class insights; we strive to offer every employee cutting-edge career development with a generous helping of fun.