Our Client, an award-winning global Creative Advertising Agency, known for producing beautiful, innovative work, is recruiting for an Account Director to work on a Global Retail Brand. They have been appointed to the global roster as a lead retail agency, responsible for strategy, execution and delivery. As a new, high profile account on one of the world’s most recognisable brands they are looking for the very best of retail specialist talent.

The Role

They ideally need a Retail Account Director with demonstrable experience working with blue chip clients. A successful candidate will have a proven track record of managing big budget (£1m+) large scale accounts as well as comprehensive experience of managing teams at Account Director level.

Account team members are expected to lead in their specialism whilst possessing the ability to execute, critique, and collaborate alongside the partnership with confidence inclusive of DRTV, OOH, Press, and digital.

You’ll be expected to understand client business and provide specialist in-depth understanding of retail and shopper whilst knowing how to support other communication disciplines within the Partnership. As a fully integrated account, the account requires a tight collaboration with the wider partnership team and the ability to demonstrate thought leadership both internally and with client.

We’re looking for people with a can-do mind-set, passion for strategy and delivering best in class creative, combined with a fun, positive outlook on the industry.

Preferable Skillsets:

• Global Retail experience
• Experience in establishing an account team
• Experience setting up account ways of working and processes
• Experience working outside of the U.K.
• Foreign language.

Our client – an award winning creative global Advertising Agency is currently ecruiting for an Global account Manager to work on an international high profile Retail account. They have been appointed to the global roster as a lead retail agency, responsible for strategy, execution and delivery. As a new, high profile account on one of the world’s most recognisable brands they are looking for the very best of retail specialist talent.

The Role

We are looking for a motivated, ambitious Global Retail Account Manager preferably with experience working with blue chip clients on global account. A successful candidate will have a proven track record of being a key lynchpin within a team, working independently, running projects independently , running the day to day logistics of an account.

Account team members are expected to lead in their specialism whilst possessing the ability to execute, critique, and collaborate alongside the partnership with confidence inclusive of Digital, OOH, Press, and TV.

You’ll be expected to understand client business and provide specialist in-depth understanding of retail and shopper whilst knowing how to support other communication disciplines within the Partnership. As a fully integrated account, the account requires a tight collaboration with the wider partnership team and the ability to demonstrate thought leadership both internally and with client.

We’re looking for people with a can-do mind-set, passion for strategy and delivering best in class creative, combined with a fun, positive outlook on the industry.

I am looking for a Web Developer for a client of mine based in EC1.

Skills

• Strong grasp and passion for front-end development.
• Knowledge of Content Management Systems such as WordPress.
• Has touched on some PHP or other server-side language.

Ambition

• Maintain a working knowledge of new web technologies.
• Interested in gaining more experience in backend development.

Experience

• At least 2 years’ experience in a professional development environment.
• Have planned and implemented entire projects from design to launch.
• Worked on collaborative projects with designers, developers and clients.

What you’d be doing
The projects they work on are split between feature-driven products, and content-driven websites.

Every member of the team has a keen interest in what makes for a compelling user experience, and a successful online business. You’ll share this passion for products and the web, and want to contribute to the team’s ideas regardless of which project you’re working on.
Implementing designs and interactions
Working closely with the design team you’ll help turn deliverables into functioning responsive templates using HTML, SCSS and JavaScript. We have been developing our best practices over time and look for you to join them in progressing and following them in all of your work.

Front-end fanatic
With every day introducing a new standard, framework and build tool you are keen to keep yourself informed and make good choices on what to use and when. You are performance and accessibility minded and always focus on the user when making decisions.

Creativity
Somewhere between design and front-end is where you add your magic. There are always opportunities for you to introduce finishing touches to an interface – be it animations, clever interactions or SVG wizardry.

WordPress
Their chosen tool for content-driven projects is WordPress, you will be supported by the backend developers throughout these projects but an understanding of this CMS and PHP would be beneficial.

JavaScript
You’re interested in venturing deeper into the world of JavaScript than jQuery and may have already done so.

It would be an advantage to have links to any accounts on GitHub, BitBucket, etc and be able to talk through your code using a computer during the interview.

Senior Designers at this tier one client have a proven track record in designing websites and digital experiences. They live and breathe the Internet and are passionate about solving problems with design. They love crafting experiences and looking at things in new ways and pushing boundaries.

Qualities the candidate should exhibit

• A passion for UI, interaction design and the opportunities it affords in the many customer touch points that exist.
• A solid understanding of traditional graphic design principles for digital media.

Experience and core skills

• Design experience working in an agency environment
• Ability to manage time effectively and work to deadlines
• Good verbal and written communication skills and a passion for presenting
• Take ownership for projects and demonstrate leadership
• Fluency in common design software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Sketch)
• Develop a strong collaborative relationship with other disciplines
• Helpful, approachable and easy to deal with
• Team Player, as well as able to work independently
• Prototyping and UI motion skills (Principle, Marvel)

Brand and strategic skills

• Experienced in working with well-known UK brands and translating them into a range of digital experiences
• To demonstrate a full understanding of your client’s brand values, guidelines and a sensibility for how to push boundaries and evolve brands.
• To be aware of the strategic objectives and commercial implications of each project and offer solutions that fulfill the needs and fit budgets

Design and technical skills

• To take ownership for key projects
• To produce stunning design and well crafted user-centred experiences
• The ability to think strategically and translate campaign, brand, service and product requirements into creative solutions
• Have a clear understanding of interface, product and service design across many different digital touch points
• Knowledge of modern design methodologies and processes for complex systems, sites and applications delivered across desktop and mobile
• To contribute to new business pitches, producing outstanding design quickly and efficiently

Creative Agency looking for a mid-weight designer with a love of all things beauty with skills in motion and layout.

This role is to boost our team with Graphic Designer / Creative who can help tell stories through imagery, motion graphics (on-screen motion graphics and/or stop motion), and photography. The role will see you working alongside the rest of the creative team but primarily on an international beauty brand so an interest in hair, fashion and beauty is essential.

Solid creative thinking, problem solving and a love for social media are also heavily valued within this role. We are a passionate, proactive and close design team, brimming with talent, enthusiasm and banter. We’re looking for someone who loves what they do and will bring their own brand of spark, vim and vigour to the agency.

DAY-TO-DAY ACTIVITIES TYPICALLY INCLUDE

• 2D animation (onscreen and/or stop motion)
• Bringing products to life through creative photography
• Delivering storyboards and visual concepts
• Create visual material for online and offline consumption
• Creative thinking to a brief, on your own or as a team
• Proactive development of a brand from a design strategy perspective
• Liaising with fellow team members, client service and community teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conceptualise a brief from issue through to artwork and implementation
• Meticulous visuals and finished assets delivered on time, consistently on brand and in a cost-effective manner
• Liaise with other heads to deliver projects as a team
• Ensure you understand the requirements of the brief and explain how the visual meets the client strategy
• Stay up-to-date with social platforms and industry trends
• Ad hoc duties as required by the company.

KEY SKILLS

• Intrapreneurial, with a team-player approach and a can-do attitude to go with it
• Passionate
• A solid knowledge of a range of social platforms
• An in-depth knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects.
• Product photography and a dab hand at compositing
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Good communication skills
• Proactive problem solving
• A proven experience of creative in an agency environment is useful but not essential.

We are currently looking for a Mid-weight Digital Designer that has an interest in APP product design. This role is woking for an exciting new start up (2 years old) that has already won huge financial backing and grown over the last year hitting the London market by storm. For their next phase my client are looking to crack the Paris and New York markets. The team comprises of 4 other designers that cover UI, UX, Product and graphic design. The ideal candidate will be able to put their hands to each discipling: User Interface, Usability and pixel perfect design and have a love for creating innovative APPS.

An exciting opportunity for a talented Mid-weight motion graphics designer with a demonstrable depth of experience and passion for creative branding.

My client is a relatively new agency. It was born out of the integration of a group of four established agencies: digital, promotional (Advertising), PR and Med Ed.

After a move to Soho, it’s now time to completely rebuild the Creative Department. Whoever joins will be a key figure in helping to shape the culture and beliefs, so this is one of those rare opportunities when you can really make a difference.

ATTRIBUTES & BEHAVIOURS
Innovative; Strong interest in multimedia and interactivity; Takes responsibility and ownership; Generates novel ideas and solutions; Proactively questions the status quo; Great attention to detail; Balances speed and accuracy in delivery of tasks; Gets involved early; Delivers with passion.

ROLE
This position offers a high level of autonomy and ownership across a wide variety of clients and projects.

Projects are many and varied, with the agency seeing a significant rise in digital and film-based content over recent years.

As you would expect, the work is fast-paced, with demanding deadlines you will need to hit while constantly pushing levels of craft.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
My client are looking for a Creative Team with medical experience, whose portfolio demonstrates outstanding conceptual thinking, immaculate execution, with multiple examples of ideas that communicate effectively across digital platforms.

You will most likely come from a well-respected advertising agency, where you will have worked on multiple campaigns for mainstream brands.

The appeal of this role is in joining an agency that is committed to, and understands the value of, creativity. But moreover, provides an environment where the creatively talented can make work that has the power to bring meaningful change to people’s lives.

Please apply now with your cv and portfolio

We are working with a fantastic small product design agency based in Clerkenwell to source for a Digital Designer. You will be excited by product design and although UI centred, have a solid understanding of UX fundamentals and the research and wire-framing process. Working from lovely bright offices, they have a diverse range of clients and also work on their own products.

This is a lovely role for someone looking for a smaller agency environment, with plenty of autonomy. For the full brief please get in touch.