Design Management Team Lead

1 week ago


London, United Kingdom MediaCom Full time
EssenceMediacomX exists to radically improve the value and relevance of advertising for the benefit of brands and consumers. Our office sits within the legacy Essence building on Oxford Street. Our clients include some of the world’s leading brands and businesses including Google, ITV, Airbnb, BT/EE, The Financial Times and L’Oréal to name a few. Part of GroupM, Essence is majority-owned by WPP, the world’s leading creative transformation group.
About Creative Futures
Creative Futures is a different kind of creative team. We work in unison with our media teams combining creative, data, technology and paid media to make work that connects with culture - executing on every channel through advertising campaigns and brand partnerships.
In the UK, we are a team of 45 strategists, creatives, designers, developers, video editors, producers and partnership specialists.
We are part of the global Creative Futures network that has produced these campaigns in recent years:
Elsewhere, we launched Pixel 8 with Google across EMEA on social and display, created award-winning social assets for the Tokyo Olympics, and produced the launch of The Financial Times new app, FT Edit.
You’ll be responsible for leading, inspiring and growing a passionate and talented design and video team. You’ll ensure best practice and creative excellence in every aspect of delivering work to our clients.
You’ll be working across multiple clients and projects and will ensure the smooth delivery of work on time and on brief. You will be responsible for managing the design processes, articulating clearly your design direction and supporting this with ‘hands-on’ involvement.
You’ll be able to easily develop good working relationships with our clients, shaping their understanding of our design practice to both broaden and deepen our remit. You’ll foster strong relationships internally, across the Creative Futures team and the wider agency (presenting updates and work case studies).
You’ll work closely with the conceptual team demonstrating creative flair, versatility and imagination in developing ideas into powerful visuals. You’ll generate design solutions and ideas that respond to each client’s needs and will ensure that our work is meticulously aligned to brand guidelines - challenging these if appropriate.
You’ll have a keen sense of curiosity, a professional attitude and patience, as you help develop junior members of the team, contributing your thoughts and ideas.
This role will be managing a team of three and reports into the Creative Director. 8+ years of hands-on design experience at agencies
A passion for all things digital design
Experience working across a wide range of digital channels and formats from display and social to DooH and video graphics
Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, lllustrator, AfterEffects) Sketch/Figma. Experience working across digital ad campaigns, producing design assets and key creative deliverables for projects and pitches
Your presentation skills and storytelling are second to none as you explain and rationalise your design solutions to clients - presenting to both internal and external stakeholders where appropriate
A solid conceptual approach to explore creative ideas before design
Personal interest in current design trends and new ways to improve
able to follow through on projects and/or issues
EssenceMediacomX, part of GroupM, is a global data and measurement-driven media agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. Our office sits within the legacy Essence building on Oxford Street. Our clients include many exciting brands such as Google, ITV, Airbnb, BT/EE, NBCUniversal and L'Oréal to name a few.
We do this by employing the world's very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today's digital marketing landscape. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
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