Lead Creative

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom DEPT® Full time

**JOB DESCRIPTION: Lead Creative**

**WHO ARE WE?**

The bigger picture**: DEPT® **is a pioneering technology and marketing services company that creates integrated end-to-end digital experiences for brands such as Google, TikTok, eBay, ASOS, Zoopla, Twitch, Patagonia and many, many more.

Our team of 4,000+ digital specialists across 30+ locations on five continents deliver pioneering work on a global scale with a boutique culture. We live and breathe our _'big enough to cope, small enough to care'_ ethos, providing an inclusive, supportive and an exciting place to accelerate your career.

This position sits in our **advertising** service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands' business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include ASOS, Just Eat Takeaway, Twitch, TikTok, and The White Company.

**JOB PURPOSE**:
Creatives at DEPT® come up with ideas that capture audiences' attention, ideas that inspire behaviour change and that people want to share - not gimmicks, but campaign ideas that make a real difference to our clients' businesses. Our Creatives work with all areas of the business and are responsible for framing ideas grounded in strategy.

Our creatives are specialists in change, get bored easily and are proactive in looking for new solutions to even the oldest of problems. We need someone who understands our client audiences', who can put themselves in their shoes to create work that exceed expectations, who understands that brands are competing for consumers' attention and have at best a couple of seconds to inspire some sort of interaction.

**KEY RESPONSIBIL**ITIES**:

- To produce great creative work collaboratively with the creative and design team
- Delivering on-brand on-brief work from within their client pod
- Collaborate closely alongside other Creatives and designers within their client pod
- Be hands on in delivering and driving ideas from within the creative team
- To report and escalate creative needs on a project by project basis to HO/CD
- Be aware of and respond to current advertising and media trends and pop culture
- Use your experience and ideas to contribute to the development of our creative process
- Present work internally and externally to an excellent standard
- Stay up-to-date with industry development such as NFTs, the Metaverse and new social platforms
- Come up with and present ideas that stand out from the crowd and will deliver against objective
- Research customer behaviour and trends

**SKILLS AND PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE**:
Essential:

- Solid experience as a Creative at an agency or inhouse team at a senior or midweight level
- Have created a broad portfolio of work
- Copywriting or art direction experience
- Experience with digital marketing, understanding its potential and its limitations
- Excellent creative presentation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with high attention to detail
- Ability to react quickly within a fast-paced environment
- Ability to remain focused under pressure and work under tight deadlines
- Ability to work within a team as well as with clients
- A love for learning new things, platforms & mediums

**HEALTH, WELLBEING & BENEFITS**:

- Possibilities to do what you do best and to develop your skills further with training development and certifications
- A flexible, hybrid working policy
- The choice of medical healthcare providers (Bupa or Medicash)
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off each year
- Company pension scheme
- EAP scheme
- Ride to work scheme
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Buddy Program: You will be paired with a 'Buddy' to help you through your first weeks' at DEPT®
- Annual trip to the DEPT® Festival in the Netherlands: a chance to meet other people in DEPT®, see great talks from industry leaders, and have an all-expenses-paid weekend of fun
- Global Annual DEPT® Cares Day which cadets can donate their skills to support local charities
- Other soft benefits including, refreshments provided in the office and a social calendar with weekly and monthly events on a team and agency level

**DEPT® **is committed to making a positive impact on the planet and since 2021 has been Climate Neutral and B Corporation certified.

At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.

Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.

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