Creative Lead, SPECS, Social

Snap Inc.•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$121,000 - $214,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a member of Snap Inc.’s Creative & Marketing team, the Creative Lead will shape how SPECS shows up across luxury, fashion, design, and culture through distinctive, social-first creative work. This hands-on role requires deep luxury experience, a sophisticated visual eye, and the ability to translate ideas into compelling content across video, designed assets, photography, and other social-native formats. The role calls for meaningful ownership of creative content development and execution, ideally within a luxury house or luxury-adjacent brand or publication. The Creative Lead will take projects from early concepts through production, launch, and iteration, aligning stakeholders and guiding creative direction and execution. The position reports directly to the Creative Director of Social. Snap’s “default together” approach expects team members to work in an office 4+ days per week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in design, marketing, communications, filmmaking, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of relevant experience across creative direction, content production, social, brand, or marketing roles in the luxury space.
3+ years working within a true luxury brand or house, ideally in fashion, beauty, automotive, hospitality, or an adjacent premium category.
Experience developing and directing social-first content across video, photography, design, and other digital formats.
Experience directing on-set shoots and managing production from pre-production through delivery.
Portfolio or body of work demonstrating creative direction, social-first thinking, production leadership, and elevated brand storytelling.
Experience managing creative, production, and/or social agencies and external partners.
Hands-on content creation capabilities across photography, video, design, editing, or social-native formats.
Sophisticated creative eye and strong taste across brand, design, art direction, photography, video, and storytelling.
Ability to develop social-first concepts, treatments, and briefs, then direct execution across formats.
Proven on-set direction and collaboration skills across creative teams, talent, creators, and production partners.
Strong production instincts, including shoot logistics, location scouting, vendor management, budgets, schedules, and post-production.
Strong judgment, organization, and communication skills, with the ability to balance creative ambition, practical constraints, and cross-functional input.

Nice To Haves

Experience at or within a globally recognized luxury house, such as Dior, Chanel, or Jacquemus, or comparable luxury brands and publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Architectural Digest.
Experience managing shoot logistics, including location scouting, crew, talent, vendors, budgets, schedules, and post-production.
Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Keynote, and emerging generative AI tools.
Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite programs, Frame.io, and creative asset management platforms.
Demonstrated ability to take projects from creative concept and treatment through production, post, and final delivery.
Experience working in fast-moving, cross-functional organizations.

Responsibilities

Concept, develop, and direct distinctive social-first storytelling across video, photography, design, editorial, and emerging formats.
Provide art direction for social creative, applying strong visual taste across identity, content, and storytelling.
Lead cross-functional projects from planning through execution, managing timelines, stakeholders, and resources to deliver high-quality social content on schedule.
Direct shoots on set and guide photographers, directors, stylists, designers, creators, talent, and production teams.
Develop treatments and briefs, build alignment, guide production, and protect creative intent from concept through delivery.
Lead production logistics, including schedules, budgets, vendors, crew, locations, permits, talent, and post-production.
Partner with creators, agencies, and external partners, and create or edit content directly when needed.
Translate luxury brand-building into technology and hardware storytelling that balances aspiration, innovation, design, and product.
Apply knowledge of luxury, fashion, design, culture, creators, and emerging formats to develop credible, elevated, and unexpected work for SPECS.