Junior Art Director, Social

Job description

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients. We are looking for an ambitious Creator. As a Creator at Kettle, you'll own the full arc of social content — from the spark of an idea to the final frame. You'll concept, pitch, shoot, art direct, produce, edit, write, and animate. All of it, for a legacy American clothing and accessories retailer. We're not looking for someone who does one thing well. We're looking for someone who does everything incredibly well — and has the aesthetic and experience to prove it. **Candidates should have:** - 1-3+ years of experience creating content for brands, agencies, or both — with a portfolio (can be a website or your IG) that shows range, craft, and a genuine point of view - A demonstrably strong aesthetic — your Instagram, TikTok, or portfolio should speak for itself before you say a word - Deep passion for fashion, style, and consumer culture; you follow the space closely and it shows in your work - Hands-on production skills: you're comfortable behind a DSLR camera or your phone, in a prop shop, and on a set you built yourself - Proficiency and experience in editing (Premiere Pro), graphic design (Adobe suite), some motion graphics (After Effects), deck design (Figma, Keynote) - The ability to write — not just captions, but ideas: concepts, scripts, creative rationale - Experience presenting and selling creative to clients; you can walk a room through an idea and make them believe in it - A collaborative instinct. You’re comfortable receiving feedback on your ideas, pivoting, taking other's ideas and running with them, brainstorming, and receiving creative direction from your leads **We’d like to know that you can:** - Conceive original social content ideas for our fashion client — and help sell them through directly to clients with confidence and creative conviction - Own production start to finish: prop, style, and art direct shoots; operate camera; capture stills and video; and deliver polished, platform-ready content - Edit your own footage — short-form video, Reels, TikToks — with a sharp eye for pacing, rhythm, and visual storytelling - Write copy that is on-brand and platform-specific: captions, scripts, on-screen text, deck copy, and anything else the idea needs - Assist in developing multi-platform content systems — not just one-offs, but cohesive creative content series concepts that works across multiple social platforms - Collaborate with strategists and creative leads to translate briefs into creative concepts that resonate - Stay ahead of platform trends, aesthetic shifts, and cultural moments in fashion and lifestyle — and bring that fluency into every brief *The target range of compensation for this role is $60,000 - 75,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.*