London | Hybrid | Permanent | Up to £100k | January start
Big ideas. Brilliant storytelling. Still close to the craft.
We're working with an ambitious independent creative agency looking for a copy-led Creative Director to join its senior team in January.
This is for someone who has grown into creative leadership without losing the thing that got them there in the first place – a love of ideas, words and great storytelling.
You'll lead the creative thinking across major client relationships, finding the organising idea behind a brief and turning it into work that can live across content, social, film, digital, experiential and integrated campaigns.
And you'll still make things.
You'll write. Concept. Shape narratives and scripts. Get into the deck. Partner with Art Directors and Designers. Challenge the work. And help talented creative teams make good ideas considerably better.
The role
You'll be a senior creative voice within the agency, working closely with Strategy, Client Services and Production from the earliest stages of a brief through to final delivery.
You'll take complicated business and audience challenges and find the simple, compelling creative thought at the heart of them – then build ideas capable of travelling across channels, audiences and formats.
Alongside the work, you'll lead and develop creative talent, build trusted relationships with senior clients and play an important role in new business and the continued development of the agency's creative offering.
This is a relatively lean environment, so we're not looking for someone who wants layers of people between themselves and the work. You'll have genuine influence, but you'll also be expected to roll your sleeves up.
We're looking for
An established Creative Director – or potentially an exceptional ACD already operating at this level – with a strong copywriting and conceptual background.
You'll ideally bring:
- A strong portfolio of conceptual, integrated creative work.
- Excellent copywriting, storytelling and narrative skills.
- Experience developing brand platforms, organising ideas and content ecosystems, not simply one-off executions.
- The ability to turn complex messaging into simple, engaging creative.
- Strong understanding of contemporary social and content.
- Experience across multiple channels including film, digital, social and experiential.
- Hands-on involvement from concept and scripts through production and delivery.
- Experience leading and mentoring multidisciplinary creative teams.
- Confidence presenting to and challenging senior clients.
- Commercial awareness and experience contributing to pitches and account growth.
Above all, you'll have high standards for the work and the ability to bring others along.
Why this one?
It's an opportunity to have considerably more influence than you might get within a larger network.
You'll work directly with the agency's senior leadership, have a genuine voice in shaping the creative product and help build the next stage of the agency rather than simply inherit an established department.
So if you're already a Creative Director but want to get closer to the work again – or you're an ACD who's effectively doing the job and ready to make the step – this could be a really interesting move.
Permanent | London hybrid | Up to £100,000 | Starting January