Manager of Creative, Snap
Arcadia
This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs
4-5 days a week in office
Social media & camera company
Open for applications
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs
4-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
Role
Who you are
- Skill in leading and inspiring diverse creative teams that deliver exceptional ideas and thinking
- Ability to foster trust and credibility with senior-level executives in and out of Snap
- Ability to generate new business, responsible for ideas and creative work, and competently presents pitch
- Skill in strong business acumen and strategy, with the ability to develop and execute strategies that align with the company's vision and goals
- Skill in communication and relationship-building, capable of building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, partners, and vendors
- Ability to craft compelling pitch materials and strategy documents to gain executive alignment
- Skill in building strong deck writing and dynamic presentations
- Experience managing high-functioning teams across creative disciplines
- Experience across Augmented Reality projects and designs
- Ability to possess an entrepreneurial spirit and be a self-starter with a deep sense of accountability, creativity, resourcefulness, and a desire to collaborate
- 8+ years of creative experience in a business setting with at least 3+ years in creative leadership roles
- An excellent portfolio that spans digital, experiential, retail, product/service design, and storytelling
- Demonstrated creative success in leading collaborative multi-functional teams, including project planning, to winning a number of industry recognized awards
- Leadership experience across global markets
- Ability to travel 20% across regions
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Manager, Creative Arcadia to join the Arcadia Team at Snap Inc
- The Manager, Creative at Arcadia Creative Studio is tasked with leading and inspiring creative teams to design cutting-edge augmented reality (AR) applications for Snapchat and Spectacles that address real-world challenges and elevate user experiences
- Central to this role is a deep understanding of consumer behavior and a commitment to continually evolving how technology interacts with and enhances daily life
- As a conceptual thinker, the Manager, Creative grounds every idea in cultural relevance and innovative thinking, ensuring that each solution is fresh, impactful, and avoids conventional approaches
- Delivering award-winning work, both individually and through collaboration with teams, is a primary goal
- In this role, the Manager, Creative is instrumental in shaping Arcadia’s creative vision and driving transformative business outcomes
- This includes building and leading high-performance teams with specialized AR expertise and ensuring that all projects meet high-priority objectives while delivering measurable value at a rapid pace
- The role requires being hands-on and client-facing, establishing trust with clients and stakeholders while managing complex, high-stakes projects effectively
- Advocacy for diversity, inclusion, and open dialogue is a core responsibility, infusing these principles into team dynamics and client engagements to foster a creative and inclusive environment
- Position Arcadia Creative Studio as a leading force in the industry through innovative and boundary-pushing creative work
- Provide creative leadership across all accounts and act as a strategic and conceptual leader on projects, setting professional standards for the team and department
- Be hands-on and client-facing, trusted to deliver high-priority projects that create meaningful value at a rapid pace
- Utilize storytelling skills to simplify complex AR concepts and make them easy to understand using data, copy, art, and technology
- Contribute to strategic development of a well-defined creative brief and additional briefing documents, and work directly with clients when necessary
- Collaborate with other departments to establish strategic and creative approaches for assignments, and work with tech teams to find opportunities for innovation
- Review creative ideas for their distinctiveness, relevance, and effectiveness, and work collaboratively to refine and improve concepts to deliver the highest standards
- Lead by example to inspire creative colleagues to generate world-class, pioneering ideas that conceptualize innovative solutions
- Creatively lead new business or partner pitches, responsible for ideas and creative work, and merchandise the team's functional expertise and achievements to relevant stakeholders
- Drive innovation across the organization, promoting a culture of creativity and collaboration that leads to the development of new products, services, and solutions
- Serve as a public ambassador for Arcadia, communicating the studio's story and the stories of partners
Our take
Snap is the social media giant that owns Snapchat, a social media mobile app released in 2011. Created to serve as a more emotive communication form than texting, the app has gained mass popularity, reaching upwards of 400 million daily users worldwide.
After rejecting a billion dollar acquisition from Meta (then Facebook) in 2013, Snap has found itself in competition with the social media giant, particularly with Instagram. Despite this, the company has marked a place for itself in the ever competitive social media space through developing features like a Discover tab, augmented reality lenses, in-app games, ads and monetisation options, as well as launching its paid service, Snapchat+.
Snap has so far not earned an annual profit since going public in 2017, but as Snapchat's user base has continually increased it has nearly closed the gap. Like other tech companies it suffered in late 2022 due to a surprise drop in advertising revenue, but has been rebuilding to its former trajectory since then. Given Snapchat's lasting popularity amongst young people, further success appears likely.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2016
$1.8bn
SERIES F
Mar 2015
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Paid maternity, paternity and family caregiver leave
- Adoption, surrogacy, infertility and fertility preservation benefits
- Backup child care coverage, caregiver assistance and digital maternity care support
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance and AD&D insurance
- Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HSA and HMO options
- Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
- Vision coverage, including LASIK benefits
- Gym perks and discounts
- Team fitness classes, hikes and races
- Sports leagues
- Cooking and nutritional workshops
- Generous time off and leave programmes
- Meditation and yoga classes
- Emotional and mental health support programmes and apps
- Social gatherings, team outings and volunteering programmes
- Speaker series, classes and subscriptions to educational programmes
- Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega Backdoor option!)
- Rocket Lawyer memberships
- Financial education programmes
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap's long-term success!
- Have a teammate going through a tough time? Lend them a hand through our internal Snap-a-wish programme! We'll work hard to make sure they get the support they need.
Company values
- We Are Kind - We solve problems through action, make high-quality decisions and think with a strategic mindset
- We Are Smart - We solve problems through action, make high-quality decisions and think with a strategic mindset
- We Are Creative - We gracefully manage ambiguity, cultivate innovation and demonstrate an insatiable desire to learn
Company HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
Articles
Leadership
Evan Spiegel
(CEO)Graduated from Standford with a BS in Product Design.
Bobby Murphy
(CTO)Studied Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford.
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