Do you love working with the world’s leading lifestyle, entertainment, sports, automotive and luxury clients?

Are you driven by Creative innovation?

Are you a Creative team looking to do things differently?

If you’re reading this and thinking “yes, yes, YES!”, we might be looking for you.

Our client is an award-winning digitally focussed marketing agency for some of the world’s biggest and best clients and they’re looking for the next brilliant minds to help take their Creative activity in the UK to the next level.

This Creative team will work across the core client creative output on UK platforms, ecosystems and channels. You’ll lead and respond to briefs in strategic, exciting and innovative ways – knowing the best methods to inspire creative excellence out of the brief, plus the strategic, content and design teams around you. From brief to pitch to delivery, you’ll concept, create, collaborate with and deliver, bold creative strategies and content rollouts – producing best-in-class campaign activity.

Your book will be filled with campaign work for entertainment brands, and you’ll be immersed in digital culture, pop culture, and know what’s resonating, right now, at a local level.

You’ll be the client contact for these exciting campaigns, lighting up a room (or Zoom) with your energy and personality, whether it’s pitching creative for a shiny new brand or product, developing the creative activity for the year ahead, or checking in with the client mid-way through production to problem-solve, influence and make sure the work being delivered is to the highest standard.

Key Responsibilities:

Pitch / campaign management and delivery; concepting, creating and making the pitch / creative development process from start (initial conversations/ brief) to finish (i.e. WINNING & DELIVERING!). Creating and curating award-winning, innovative and brave platform-first creative proposals.
Creative execution of active projects. Working with the planning, content, design and client teams on each project, you will provide creative ideation and execution over active projects and work within your region, making sure we are delivering the best work possible, and ensuring client satisfaction to increase the chances of the agency receiving more and more exciting briefs, while retaining the projects already won with the world’s best brands.
Develop original campaign concepts to take integrated digital content briefs (from social to display, DOOH to digital experience) in new and exciting directions.
Collaborate with strategy, production and project management to deliver your creative vision to the high standards.
Inspire everyone with your reference points. You’ll possess the very latest cultural reference points – from tech to fashion, music to film, photography to platform trends and beyond.
Mentor those around you. Developing our Creative talent – nurturing the younger talent within the team.

Our client is a multinational gaming company focussing on sports betting, casino and lottery games. They have eight offices across Europe, The Middle East and Africa. They are seeking a new Lead Designer to work across their digital output on their lottery team.

This position would be perfect for an experienced Middleweight Designer within the Entertainment or Lifestyle industries who’s looking to take the next step and lead a team. If you have a few years under your belt and want to lead, manage and develop a team working within an incredible market, apply today.

Reporting directly to the Head of Design & Brand, a Lead Lottery Designer will create and art direct both print and digital marketing assets across the clients range of lottery products – Fixed Odds Lottery, Jackpot Lottery, Rapid & Instant Games – as well as take an active creative role in Product & POS branding, CSR projects and Business Development proposals.

The Lead Lottery Designer will have input in and uphold the creative vision of the Head of Design & Brand as well as consulting with other Lead Designers, Heads of Departments and Senior Marketing Managers to advise on any creative and strategic approaches to marketing functions. They will ultimately hold design authority and responsibility for the area in which they lead.

A Lead Designer must focus on creating outstanding assets for a variety of channels, participating in larger creative tasks and projects. They will continually develop new design concepts and initiatives to elevate the design quality as well as the systems and processes in place to deliver them.

A Lead Designer will also manage a small team of designers, continually assessing the need for additional headcount, resources and tools to ensure the demands of the business are met.

Main Responsibilities

? Hold design authority and responsibility for the area in which they lead

? Lead and manage a small team of designers, mentoring and coaching them where necessary

? Manage day-to-day workload and delivery of cross-channel marketing assets

? Work closely with the Head of Design & Brand to deliver and document design vision

? Propose and continually develop new concepts and creative solutions

? Actively participate in larger tasks and projects, leading creative

? Responsible for quality control, always policing brand guidelines and visual style

? Create and implement systems, templates and processes that increase efficiency

? Manage stakeholder relationships and take part in key product/marketing meetings

? Potentially manage additional freelance/3rd party relationships to meet demands

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

? Degree or Masters in Design related subject (e.g. Graphic Design)

? 5+ years experience in the design field

? 2+ years experience as a Middleweight Designer within Sports, Casino or Lottery ideally

? Highly proficient in Adobe CC and relevant design software

? Strong design skills across a range of media (both digital and print)

? Ability to meet deadlines, manage and collaborate with a small team

? Strong communication skills with the ability to build strong stakeholder relationships

? Additional animation or 3D skills a plus

? Lottery, betting or gaming knowledge is beneficial, as is experience of the African market

? Additional fluency in French or Portuguese languages is advantageous

Our client is a well established skincare brand, specialising in organic, vegan and sustainable products. They have an exciting opportunity for a new Graphic Designer to join their growing team.

Reporting to the Creative Lead and working closely with the Brand Marketing and Ecommerce Teams, this Designer role will be responsible for managing daily graphic design projects including digital and print media graphic design projects.
This is a fast-moving department supporting all areas of the business. If you enjoy creative problem solving and a variety of work – this could be the role for you!

What you will be responsible for:

? Managing projects to deliver creative outputs for online and printed media, ensuring consistency across all brand and campaign tasks, such as web, email, social, search and packaging. Working on multiple design projects at any one time.

? Working with the Marketing Director and Creative Lead to generate design direction and new ideas for creative content.

? Managing style guides and design direction documents to ensure consistent execution across all channels.

? Working directly with a range of internal stakeholders from Marketing, Sales, NPD and Ecommerce.

? Working with external suppliers such as printers or wholesale accounts.

? Developing and supporting junior members of the team.

The must haves:

? Proven in-house experience in a junior to midweight design role.

? Graphic design qualification with a good working knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premier, XD and Acrobat.

? Strong design skills across print, digital, web design and motion graphics/video.

? A strong creative eye and detail-oriented – ensuring artwork is delivered to an extremely high standard, consistently and error-free.

? Be able to meet deadlines in a fast-paced changing environment.

Our client is a well-established and quickly growing cosmetics brand seeking a smart, ambitious and dedicated Senior Video Editor who meets challenges with new ideas and enthusiasm, has a natural inclination towards leadership and has extensive and impressive experience in video editing within the beauty industry.

Are you comfortable managing creatives and making sure the quality of the content produced meets the highest standards? Are you able to juggle multiple projects at once? Are you a professional video editor and motion graphic designer? Do you know Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve 17, and Final Cut like the back of your hand? If so, we want to hear from you!

The Role

Your key responsibilities will include:

Work with the Video Production Manager and the Content coordinators to understand and digest the vision for the deliverables (BAU + launch content + Ads + Engagement led shows for YouTube)
Support Video Production Manager during all phases of production: Creative, Pre-Production, Production, and Post Production, focusing on Post Production
Edit and assemble recorded raw footage into a suitable, high quality finished product. The material may include camera footage, dialogue, sound effects, graphics, animations, and visual effects
Post produce 10+ videos per week in line with company standards
Help sourcing music, sound effects, and stock footage from various licensing sources
Edit licensed or custom music tracks to fit the flow, vibe and pace of the videos
Create sound design and mix/master audio for videos where needed
Work with the Design team to create motion graphics such as lower thirds, on-screen text, logos, and more complex animation
Manage the work of the Junior Video Editors and provide feedback, checking quality of the footage, subtitles accuracy, editing techniques, sound and colour grading
Work with the studio project manager on video shoots to make sure all footage is captured, saved and archived properly and ready for post-production, according to schedule.
Manage the office NAS server once set up, make sure all footage is backed up and correctly labelled.

Requirements

The key skills and experience required for this role are:

Significant, demonstrable experience editing for social media and web
In depth knowledge of creating video content for specific platforms such as social media, web and ads in the beauty industry.
In depth knowledge of video editing, colour grading, rough cuts and sound design to advise the team if/when required to drive innovation.
Knowledge of Data Wrangling and labelling knowledge with the ability to follow in-house rules
High level of proficiency in Premiere Pro, After Effects and DaVinci Resolve. Additional knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite (Audition, Character Animator, Cinema 4D. Photoshop, Illustrator) is desirable
Strong sense of typography, colour and composition is beneficial.
Experience working with G-Suite, Asana and Slack

Benefits

As well as this fantastic opportunity, there are a number of other perks of the job, including:

25 days holiday
Flexible working with core working hours
Pension Scheme
Vitality Health Scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Enhanced family friendly packages
Welcome new starter stack gift and swag
Company discount for yourself and friends and family

Our client has a global team of multidisciplinary designers. They provide experience strategy, user research, product design, interaction design, and communication design to both their international client base and internal company initiatives.

Their work spans channels, mediums and industries and is concerned with the full customer journey along with finding the optimal marriage of feasibility, viability and desirability when it comes to solving problems in that journey.

As a UX designer, you’ll be involved in the end-to-end design process: from research and strategy to execution and delivery and should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

The role

We understand that UX Designers are often “T-shaped” with their core skills spread along a spectrum. For this role, we are looking for a Senior UX designer whose leaning is towards experience/product strategy, generative user research and new product development, although there is an expectation that you will have a solid competence across all areas of UX design, such as information architecture, interaction design and evaluative user research.

This opportunity is based in either their UK office in The Shard, London or their Manchester office, with the option to work 40% of your time remotely. They are looking for a self-starter with lots of digital knowledge and energy, who has a strong vision but enjoys enabling others to contribute to the design process.

Responsibilities include:

Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team
Plan and estimate the right process to reach project goals and client objectives.
Lead and execute the appropriate level of research suitable for each project, and report on your findings and recommendations
Plan and run qualitative research activities such stakeholder interviews, user interviews and other forms of user research.
Synthesise research into actionable insights, concepts and solutions
Facilitate stakeholder and design team workshops
Develop personas, journey maps and storyboards to capture and communicate user behaviours, motivations and goals
Define information architecture with sitemaps, user flows, and components mapping
Model interactions through process diagrams, task flows and interaction diagrams as needed
Create sketches, wireframes and working prototypes as needed to articulate design direction
Present concepts and ideas to clients
Mentor and coach more junior team members

Requirements

Excellent design portfolio showing process and outcomes
Minimum 2 years of work experience in a similar senior role
Degree in design related field or equivalent work experience or training
Clear UX design process
Experience designing for the web (responsive) and mobile applications
Experience designing digital products
Experience conducting user research studies and synthesising results
Ability to sketch and explore alternative solutions quickly
Familiar with usability heuristics
Good working knowledge of core interface and interaction design principles (typography, grids, hierarchy, mobile first, responsive, patterns, platform conventions, accessibility standards and so on)
Ability to create intuitive and engaging UI screens and user flows
Solid experience of a variety of design and prototyping tools, especially Figma
Familiarity with core web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS and so on)
Ability to prioritise your own workload and perform effectively to tight deadlines
Ability to communicate your ideas clearly and confidently to peers, team leaders and clients
Comfortable receiving constructive feedback
A flexible, positive, solution orientated, can-do attitude
Agency experience a bonus
Experience with remote (moderated and/or unmoderated) user testing platforms a bonus
Benefits

Private Healthcare Plan
Pension Plans
Life Assurance
Leave Package
Work From Home
Training & Development
Employee Assistance Programme – Counselling
Childcare Voucher Scheme

Our client has a global team of multidisciplinary designers. They provide experience strategy, user research, product design, interaction design, and communication design to both their international client base and internal company initiatives.

Their work spans channels, mediums and industries and is concerned with the full customer journey along with finding the optimal marriage of feasibility, viability and desirability when it comes to solving problems in that journey.

As a UX designer, you’ll be involved in the end-to-end design process: from research and strategy to execution and delivery and should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

The Role

We understand that UX Designers are often “T-shaped” with their core skills spread along a spectrum. For this role we are looking for a Senior UX designer whose leaning is towards product design, interaction design and usability. Although there is an expectation that you will have a general competence across all areas of UX design, such as experience strategy, generative research and content strategy.

This opportunity is based in either their UK office in The Shard, London or their Manchester office, with the option to work 60% of your time remotely. They are looking for self-starters with lots of digital knowledge, energy and enthusiasm to join our expanding team.

Responsibilities

Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team
Plan and estimate the right process to reach project goals and client objectives.
Facilitate stakeholder and design team workshops
Conduct evaluative research activities such as heuristic analysis, competitive analysis and behaviour analysis
Plan and run moderated/unmoderated usability tests
Synthesise research into actionable insights, concepts and solutions
Define information architecture with sitemaps, user flows, and components mapping
Model interactions through process diagrams, task flows and interaction diagrams as needed
Create sketches, wireframes and working prototypes as needed to articulate design direction
Present concepts and ideas to clients
Create design mockups and style guides
Brief UI designers and Developers
Mentor and coach more junior team members

Skill Requirements

Excellent design portfolio showing process and outcomes
Minimum 2 years of work experience in a similar senior role
Degree in design related field or equivalent work experience or training
Clear UX design process
Experience designing digital products
Experience conducting user research studies and synthesising results
Ability to sketch and explore alternative solutions quickly
Familiar with usability heuristics
Possess brilliant layout, colour theory, typography skills and, sharp attention to detail
Good working knowledge of core interface and interaction design principles (grids, hierarchy, mobile first, responsive, patterns, platform conventions, accessibility standards and so on)
Ability to create intuitive and engaging UI screens and user flows
Experience creating bespoke Design Systems
Solid experience of a variety of design and prototyping tools, especially Figma
Familiarity with core web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS and so on)
Ability to prioritise your own workload and perform effectively to tight deadlines
Ability to communicate your ideas clearly and confidently to peers, team leaders and clients
Comfortable receiving constructive feedback
A flexible, positive, solution orientated, can-do attitude
Agency experience a bonus
Experience with analytics software (GA, Hotjar, Crazy Egg etc) is a bonus
Experience with A/B, multivariate testing tools (Optimizely, Google Optimise etc) is a bonus

Requirements

Excellent design portfolio showing process and outcomes
Minimum 2 years of work experience in a similar senior role
Degree in design related field or equivalent work experience or training
Clear UX design process
Experience designing for the web (responsive) and mobile applications
Experience designing digital products
Experience conducting user research studies and synthesising results
Ability to sketch and explore alternative solutions quickly
Familiar with usability heuristics
Good working knowledge of core interface and interaction design principles (typography, grids, hierarchy, mobile first, responsive, patterns, platform conventions, accessibility standards and so on)
Ability to create intuitive and engaging UI screens and user flows
Solid experience of a variety of design and prototyping tools, especially Figma
Familiarity with core web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS and so on)
Ability to prioritise your own workload and perform effectively to tight deadlines
Ability to communicate your ideas clearly and confidently to peers, team leaders and clients
Comfortable receiving constructive feedback
A flexible, positive, solution orientated, can-do attitude
Agency experience a bonus
Experience with remote (moderated and/or unmoderated) user testing platforms a bonus

Benefits

Private Healthcare Plan
Pension Plans
Life Assurance
Leave Package
Work From Home
Training & Development
Employee Assistance Programme – Counselling
Childcare Voucher Scheme

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Creative Director (Art Direction)

London – Hybrid working

The ideal candidate will be digitally-centric in their approach and hybrid in their creative thinking with a strong conceptual background encompassing brand as well as direct advertising.

You’ll be joining a team in Central London and in this autonomous and fast-paced environment, you’ll be expected to draw upon your experience and know just how to get on with things first time – especially on longer-form content projects

You will lead and drive the creative excellence for an exciting and awarded client.
You’ll be responsible for advertising activity across all integrated channels – taking in online platform, direct mail, email, display, web, social, press and OOH.
You’ll be able to demonstrate a strong grasp of both brand building and direct response principles and have an entrepreneurial mindset to make the most of the opportunities that present themselves in an on-site environment

You’ll have honed your craft across a wide range of sectors and brands – with particular depth in media or culture a plus.
Your book will show notable large scale conceptual campaigns supported by solid sales-driving activity, performance marketing.
Experience of inspiring product focused advertising would be an advantage.
Your work will be beautifully crafted, regardless of channel, and you will have a track record of award wins.

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Location: Hybrid/Shoreditch, London

Hours: Full-time

Summary:

My client is seeking an exceptional creative visionary to lead their

growing team located throughout EMEA. With deep knowledge of integrated retail experience, this role will lead the creation of music, messaging and visual experiences for global brands in their physical spaces. The successful candidate will ideate and define, conceptualise and implement creative strategy, ideas and inspiration for a broad range of client partners across all retail, hospitality and service verticals.

The ideal candidate must possess the ability to discover, process and communicate a deep understanding of brand DNA, customer behaviour and the physical environment to curate the perfect audio soundtrack or digital experience for a client’s business. While they must ultimately demonstrate significant creativity in the job, he/she must also demonstrate discipline and a strong corporate acumen, interacting regularly with internal executives and a variety of clients and internal teams across multiple verticals and sectors.

Working with global and national brands on a daily basis, this role will communicate and evangelize the value of experience. Our clients expect the creative team to transform their brand vision into an immersive audio, visual or digital experience for their end customers. We are looking for an outstanding individual to guide our efforts throughout EMEA and in partnership with our other global efforts.

About you:

You have led a creative team in market at a retail experience firm, major commercial radio group or at an award winning agency and will have multiple creative roles on your CV, ranging from Copywriter to Senior Producer, Music Supervisor to Art Director.

You not only have the creative experience to lead, inspire and curate, but you are equally digitally fluent in content management systems, production tools, content licensing navigation and industry best practices.

You are passionate and knowledgeable about all genres of popular music and pop culture. You are highly skilled in creating, producing and presenting ideas for commercial radio, podcasts or digital audio campaigns. You will also have created concepts for social, OOH, TV, print or web and have a keen eye for what works visually.

You can lead sessions to brainstorm and conceptualise, bring insight to our team and offer inspiration to your colleagues and clients. You already have numerous examples of turning a client’s brief into an audio, visual or digital masterpiece and are well versed in successfully presenting and nurturing your ideas all the way from concept to execution.

You will be expected to understand and embrace the minutia of detail across multiple brands, audiences and platforms, have a willingness to embrace change, be an innovator and be relentless in the pursuit of incredible brand experiences.

Responsibilities:

This position will be directly responsible for the creative direction, ongoing review and optimisation of client campaigns across a wide portfolio of EMEA clients, including:

· Creative thinking and the ability to generate award winning ideas through collaborative and individual working

· Work closely with in-house teams to bring your ideas to life across all platforms

· Set priorities, handle multiple objectives in constrained time frames and interact decisively and diplomatically

· Act as an internal expert for all things creative from music curation to messaging and digital signage

· Present creative concepts to clients, agencies and brands in person and remotely

· A natural copywriter, able to jump in and bring a brief to life when needed

· Lead and mentor creative teams

Experience & Ability Requirements:

· Minimum 10 years related agency or relevant media experience with a strong portfolio of work across a variety of clients and sectors

· Minimum of 5 years experience managing a multi-disciplined creative team

· High degree of experience fulfilling creative and operational aspects of success

· A thorough understanding of brand identity and how to connect music, voice, image & brand

· Strong leadership skills

· Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

· Comfortable in presenting creative concepts to clients in person and remotely

· Perfect understanding of the English language. Fluency in a 2nd language is desirable.

· Fluent with computers and popular software applications i.e. Google Suite, Adobe Creative Cloud etc.

· Willingness to travel occasionally

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Senior Motion Designer with Cinema 4D – 70k – Hybrid working
Motion Graphics Designer with Cinema 4D

Role Purpose

We are looking for an exceptional motion graphics designer, who can elevate the level of craft across every project you work on. The purpose of this role is to concept and collaborate with creative teams, including Creative Directors, Copywriters and Strategists to deliver famous, effective and award worthy motion experiences for our clients.

Key Accountabilities

Ensure that all motion work is completed to the highest standard
Create renderings, graphics, animations and storyboards that are in line with client projects and remain true to brand
Presenting concepts and creative ideas to internal teams and clients
Supporting the wider team on new business pitches and proposals
Work collaboratively with a talented cross-disciplinary team of creatives, strategists, writers, project management account teams
Stay up to date on current software and design trends to ensure the work incorporates best practice

Person Specification

A portfolio of outstanding motion graphics work, a unique creative vision and point of view on how to push boundaries of creativity
Experience of delivering impactful profile motion projects either agency our in-house
Confident in your creative thinking and can challenge briefs and the status quo
Ability to interact with co-workers effectively and appropriately at a variety of levels, across many disciplines
Ability to interpret feedback, whether from Creative Directors, producers or clients, and make changes to creative work in response to this feedback
Able to offer constructive insights, options and ideas to keep projects moving forwards

Working with us

Joining this agency, you will be part of a creative network, delivering ideas that are brought alive in new ways. Along the way, you will team up with inspiring people across the world and become part of a truly inclusive culture where everyone is given the opportunity to thrive and create the best work of their careers; always learning and always listening to shape ideas, create culture and change behavior. By bringing together the capabilities, experience and relationships of our collective experts, the opportunities for personal growth and development are endless.

Our Values

We believe our work can only resonate in the modern world if the people behind it reflect the modern work. We can only be truly relevant when we create a truly inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. That means – we are tough on the work but gentle with each other. We lead with empathy and are always listening and always learning. We support each other, we cheer for each other, we win together. We celebrate difference as the only way to make the work that makes a difference.

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Motion Designer/Editor 50k – Hybrid working

ABOUT THE ROLE

You are a highly skilled, creative, ‘can-do’, motion designer & video editor that can bring a film to life with panache and style.

The team receives a wide range of briefs from many different clients, so you need to have the ability to flick between styles and formats with ease. The variety also means that you will need the confidence to work with a Producer to extract all key information required from an initial briefing and then bring your own approach to develop an engaging film. You will also be accustomed to working directly with creatives, even with them looming over your shoulder, along with other agency bodies.

Ideally, you will have a record of working with agencies, the ability to work independently on multiple projects under tight deadlines and using the Adobe Creative Suite.

A great understanding of post-production workflows; from initial ingest, through each stage of post, before prepping for mix and grade, along with final delivery in multiple formats is imperative. As is a proficiency in sound design, audio mixing, colour correction, colour grading and the knowledge and eye to find those great shots in their footage research.

We want someone with a passion for what they do with an eye for detail & quality control, who will always go above and beyond to make their films stand out.

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED

· You’ll have a standout showreel demonstrating your editing and motion graphic skills

· Expert knowledge of Adobe Premiere CC – predominantly Premier Pro and After Effects

· Experienced with audio recording, mixing and sound design

· Davinci Resolve – Desirable. Fluency in colour correction and colour grading

· Know how to clock for broadcast

· Experience in creating content for online and social.

· Finger on the pulse with music

· Highly creative, detail-oriented and deadline driven

· Excellent multi-tasking and self-management skills

· Willing to learn & eager to improve

· Confident, energetic & positive

· Bold, brave, someone who is not afraid to give their opinion

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAVE…

· Agency experience