Creative Manager

The Role

We're looking for a passionate and talented Creative Manager to join our brilliant Marketing team at Not On The High Street for a 6 month fixed-term contract.

The ideal candidate will be a confident leader of small creative teams and from a hybrid Designer/Art Director background. You'll be experienced in concepting big ideas for campaigns, producing content across a range of digital channels (including motion/video formats), art directing shoot and editorial content whilst executing engaging design ideas across the customer journey.

We're open to candidates from both in-house and agency environments, ideally you'll have around 8 years+ of creative experience.

We're looking for a creative who loves retail, collaboration and innovation. You'll also be passionate about managing people; guiding them with infectious creativity and helping to develop their skills and experience whilst also working with the wider team to instil creative ideas throughout our business.

Who you are

• A hybrid visual creative skilled in both Art Direction and Design.
• You'll have a strong portfolio showcasing conceptual, design, and production work, ideally for retail brands.
• You're able to turn briefs into cohesive campaigns across multiple channels.
• You can balance team leadership with hands-on design and creation.
• You're passionate about digital-first and mobile creativity; the majority of our customers shop on mobile so we're looking for someone who is digital/social-minded with pixel-perfect execution.
• Creative with solid production knowledge, collaborating closely with Producers for timely delivery.
• An inspiring team leader focused on mentorship, growth, and collaboration.
• A confident communicator who sells ideas and articulates strategic thinking.
• Highly organised and detail-oriented; skilled in managing workflow, budgets, and projects.

• Lead and inspire the Creative (Art Direction/Design) team, reporting to the Brand & Creative Director.
• Develop the big creative campaign concepts each quarter with the Copy Manager and Brand & Creative Director to inspire our customers to shop with us and our amazing small brands.
• Collaborate daily with the Copy team to design, animate, and execute campaigns across all channels (video, social, CRM, site, app, PR, print, experiential).
• Oversee our shoots — plan visuals, art direct on set, and support production to ensure smooth delivery.
• Support the Brand & Creative Director with department budget management.
• Work closely with wider teams across from around the business including PR, Social, Paid Media, Retention, Commercial and Tech/Product to help launch campaigns, initiate trade-driving ideas, spark engagement with our customers and encourage loyalty.

Technical skills:

• Exceptional creative technical skills; proficient in Figma, the Adobe creative suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro), Google Suite.
• Technical understanding of shoot planning and onset art direction including shoot equipment, lighting, sound.
• Experience of line management of small teams and passionate about people growth.

Human skills:

• Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Creative thinker able to generate innovative ideas and are naturally positive.
• Strategic thinker with problem-solving skills.
• Great team player, supportive and empathetic.
• Thoughtful leadership, ability to influence up and down.
• Naturally motivated to share creativity and brimming with ideas, always there to inspire those around them.

Don't meet every single requirement? No problem. Your strengths, passion & fresh perspective could be just what we're looking for - so we encourage you to apply

Our perks

It's super important to us to make sure everyone feels safe and looked-after, which is why we've got a wide range of benefits in place. From supporting you and your loved ones with healthcare to cheeky 'just because' gifts, we're here for you.

We've got a ton of good stuff for everyone - like private medical insurance, a health cash plan, an electric vehicle scheme, mental health platform access, cycle to work scheme, and a 20% discount on our website. To find out more about what we offer, have a look here.

We've also worked very hard to come up with a set of policies to support our people in any situation- like medicalised leave, menstrual leave, and primary carer leave.

Full-time NOTHS-ers get 25 days of holidays each year (plus bank hols), as well as having the opportunity to work from anywhere for two calendar months a year. Did someone say beach holiday?

How we work

Here at NOTHS, we embrace a remote-first approach to work, recognising the value of flexibility and the diverse talents that remote teams bring to the table. Our remote work culture is designed to empower our employees, foster collaboration, and create a community that transcends physical boundaries.

Under this framework, all of us operate remotely, convening as teams at regular intervals that suit each team best. These gatherings serve various purposes, including ideation sessions, hackathons, or simply fostering valuable face-to-face interactions.

Every quarter, we hold a Get Together and the whole company meets for a fun-filled day (with no shortage of food) with some special guests... our small brand Partners

Want to find out more? Take a look here.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

DEI is really important to us and that's why everyone's welcome at Not On The High Street – whoever they are, whatever their background.

We are committed to embracing and encouraging our employees' uniquenesses- whether this is in age, people with disabilities, ethnicity, family structures, gender, LGBTQ+ identity, lower income backgrounds, race, religion, the intersectionality or all/any of these and other aspects making us who we are. We take pride in treating all of our employees fairly and we want our people to feel respected, valued and recognised within the workplace.

As part of your application, you'll be asked to complete an optional demographic survey to help us learn more about who wants to work with us. Responses will only be used to help us figure out how to make our team even more inclusive and attract more brilliant people to join us

We'll also ask whether you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to the interview process should you need them and you can answer this question should you choose to in the application phase.

Apply to join Team NOTHS

Our recruitment processes are fully remote, taking advantage of the wonders of modern-day technology.

We'd love to hear more about you, your experience and why you want to join our team.

Good luck

We are Not On The High Street

We're here to help customers discover amazing products for all of life's needs; whether they're looking for a gift or something for themselves. We provide small brands across the UK with an engaged customer base, expert business support and ready-made tech and data infrastructure.

We're home to 5,000+ phenomenal small creative brands that we are proud to call our Partners. So we're doing all we can to shine a light on these dynamic entrepreneurs, waving the flag for small businesses and generally championing their socks off.

We are looking to build on this momentum to drive our business to the next level. And that's where you come in.