Head Social Thinker

Thinkerbell is looking for an amazing Head Social Thinker to join our Thinkers and Tinkers. This role can be based in either our North office (Sydney) or our South office (Melbourne)
HOW YOU’LL CREATE MEASURED MAGIC
What the hell is a Thinker? We’re glad you asked. A Thinker is a strategy-account-servicey type of person who often comes from a background of adland, or media agency, or brand strategy, or social, or earned, or from the coffee shop down the road, but is really really smart. They ask a lot of questions and listen very carefully for the answers. They’re problem solvers and punctual, and know how to drive business results. They can manage processes and are business minded and they know how to get shit done.
THE TASK AT HAND
As a Head Social Thinker you’ll play a huge part in helping our clients identify how social can play a role in changing behaviour or building brands - whether it’s organic, earned, shared and paid. You'll be known as a safe pair of hands both for your direct reports but also across the agency. You’ll be integral in helping to grow our business across all things social media. You’ll have an analytical brain, know how the algorithm works, build and keep relationships with the social platforms, a love for communications and a keenness to work hand in hand with our Head Tinkers and other discipline Media Thinkers as part of our integrated creative media offering.
You'll have three big things to do:
1.COMMUNICATIONS, CONTENT AND STRATEGY You'll oversee your integrated squads with social and communications strategy development, implementation and paid implementation (with our media team). This will start with understanding your client’s business inside out, having an interest and understanding of marketing science and behaviour change principles (and if you don’t know these, an interest to learn!). You’ll champion the Thinkerbell product and provide thought leadership to the agency. You’ll also be integral in the development of social and owned content, and planning across online and offline channels. You know how the algorithm works to get our brands into culture. You’ll have a curious mind looking for ways we can optimise and improve our work, alongside other brilliant leaders in the business across Brand, Earned, Owned and Paid.
2.PROJECT LEADERSHIPYou’ll oversee squads, bringing your expertise across retainers and projects. You'll have excellent attention to detail, be able to spot road bumps from a mile away and know how to keep the squad on track. You’ll also be commercially minded, ensuring work is delivered on time and on budget. You’re a leader and mentor to other Social Thinkers in the agency.
3.ALCHEMY, INTEGRATION AND COLLABORATIONWe don’t do silos at Thinkerbell, which means you’ll be expected to think outside your craft (social and owned). Our Alchemy Model is so important, as we bring so many elements of our business together, to identify the role of social and use it in the right way. We want to hear your creative ideas, we’ll want you to drive alchemy and integration. Eg: Bring an Earned Thinker or a Paid Thinker into a Social project if it’s the right thing to do and foster this mindset across the squads you lead. You’ll take a collaborative mindset into everything you do, never solving a problem in isolation and integration will be your middle name.
LIFE AT THINKERBELLThinkerbell represents the coming together of scientific enquiry and hard core creativity – or as we like to call it, ‘Measured Magic’. We are an agency of Thinkers and Tinkers and have extensive experience in the worlds of media (paid, owned, earned, and shared), research, strategy, and creative execution. We have helped some of Australia’s best known and most loved brands find their inner magic.
We promise to push you out of your comfort zone, and nurture your inherent brilliant qualities at the same time. The Institute of Measured Magic is our training and development program where we keep brains sticky with internal and external tailored training throughout the year. We also develop personal Measured Magic Indicators (MMIs are our version of KPIs) to ensure everyone is growing in their role and beyond.
We kick off every week with Measured Mondays, our all agency, super-wip and finish every Friday at 4pm with Magic Hour, where we get creative and weird together.
On top of your regular leave, everyone also gets a Mind Expansion Project per year, up to 5 consecutive days of extra leave per year for you to expand your mind and explore something new (that is something you wouldn’t normally do and something you’ve never done before), and then share back your experience with the agency. Pretty interesting eh? What would you do?
WHAT TO DO NOW Click 'Apply Now' and we will be in touch.