Post Creative Strategist

We’re VaynerMedia! VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers. As the Modern Agency of Record, it understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results. Founded in 2009, by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. VaynerMedia is part of the VaynerX family of companies.  

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture.

The PITCH.

Well, now we’re looking for someone who lives and breathes social media even more than us. Do you know all of the latest trends? Memes? And TikToks? Maybe you’ve dabbled in the world of influencers? Believe in the power of social media and community management to change hearts, minds, and drive sales? Love the hustle of fast-paced, hyper-growth agency life? Thrive in a role where you can bring ideas to life on billions of screens? Cool. Then let’s talk.

This exciting opportunity of a full-time role based in Amsterdam will allow you to collaborate with the local team as well learn from the experts globally. You will manage and drive our strategy expertise and someone who is familiar with the Dutch landscape. 

Are you based in Amsterdam? Or maybe someone aspiring with a can-do attitude? Do you wanna geek out on the world of media and creative advertising agency?

Here’s where you come in…

• Ongoing monitoring of brand social channels & relevant online conversations looking for highest impact opportunities to engage (including proactive identification of conversations & communities strategically and creatively relevant for the brand)
• Internal and external briefing, specifically covering influencers and creatives
• Continuous active listening on brands currently tracking every follower interaction: comments, responses, DM’s
• Researching and analyzing brand and cultural trends and their relevance to our clients and creative campaigns 
• Willing to go beyond basic tracking to analysing and drawing hypothesis, including providing a daily digest of observations + recommendations, to produce creative briefs
• Use third party tools to manage brand’s pages
• Read every comment across all social posts, and respond to consumers across these channels, maintaining a consistent brand voice across these conversations, and using the opportunity to engage followers, probe further insights, or advance brand goal
• Follow proper escalation systems, as needed, for followers with negative feedback.
• Seek opportunities to insert the brand in social conversation, whether around relevant trending topics/news or engaging with social influencers/celebrities/other brands

We treasure Personality and Experience yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what WE KNOW as a success:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Dutch and English
• Bonus points if you consider yourself to be an expert in popular culture
• Consider oneself a Social Media “know it all” and have experience working across a variety of social platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, etc.
• Can combine creativity and analytics with the ability to convert into a story
• Innate curiosity and ability to adapt + be flexible, whether with new tools, platforms, processes, etc. 
• Any experience using the following social listening tools is a plus but not mandatory.
• Any experience putting together presentations in written form using google slides
• Candidates must be authorised to work in the Netherlands

What you SHOULD KNOW about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class.