Social Director

About the role

Akcelo is an independent Brand Experience agency delivering powerful brand experiences that people love. We are seeking an influential and strategically minded Social Director to lead social for one of Australia’s biggest brands.

Key responsibilities

• Set the social agenda for major client partners, providing authoritative strategic counsel that drives brand relevance, audience connection and business impact.
• Build trusted senior client relationships, acting as their advocate within Akcelo while constructively challenging briefs and identifying new opportunities for growth.
• Lead, mentor and inspire a high‑performing multidisciplinary social team across strategy, creative, community and content production.
• Champion social‑first, culturally relevant and creatively ambitious work, ensuring social is embedded from the earliest stages of brand and campaign development.
• Turn audience behaviour, social listening and performance data into clear strategic recommendations that influence creative, channel and business decisions.
• Establish best‑practice social operations, standards and ways of working that enable consistently excellent delivery at pace.
• Champion social across Akcelo, raising capability across disciplines and shaping how the agency thinks about culture, creators, content, community and platforms.
• Play a leading role in new business, thought leadership, PR, award entries and agency positioning, helping build Akcelo’s reputation as an authority in social.

Required profile

• 12+ years’ experience in senior social roles, ideally within a creative, social or advertising agency.
• Demonstrated experience setting social strategy and leading complex, multi‑channel social ecosystems for major brands.
• Proven ability to build, lead and develop high‑performing teams across a range of social disciplines.
• A confident senior client leader, able to build trust, influence decisions and present a clear point of view to executive stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of social platforms, audience behaviour, internet culture, creators, social intelligence and emerging technologies.

What we offer

• Flex Fridays
• Gym memberships
• Free breakfast
• Regular social events
• Annual ski trips and more