Creative Lead
Canon Australia
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Sydney • Australia
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About the role
- Originate creative concepts and campaign narratives that bring Canon’s brand to life across digital, retail, social and experiential environments.
- Lead visual direction and layouts, developing key visuals, templates and asset systems ready for roll out.
- Craft channel-smart headlines and copy that align with brand voice and campaign strategy.
- Champion brand guardianship, working within established brand guidelines while pushing creative to elevate and evolve the brand.
- Brief and collaborate with both internal teams and external creative suppliers to deliver high-quality, integrated work.
- Translate concepts into assets across motion/video, stills, experiential/event collateral, web, email and social content.
- Ensure creative work is aligned to objectives, timelines and budgets, and continuously optimise based on data and results.
Requirements
- A portfolio showcasing conceptually strong layouts, concepts and campaigns across channels.
- Strong background in art direction or design, with the ability to produce polished layouts and creative concepts hands-on.
- Agency-side experience as a mid-senior designer or art director on consumer tech, lifestyle or retail brands, and the desire to move in-house and lead creative from the brand side.
- Strong copywriting craft across headlines and short-form messaging.
- Solid craft of brand systems, templates and visual frameworks, with the ability to build creative that scales.
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and familiarity with creative production workflows across stills, video and digital.
- A confident collaborator, able to work solo while bringing others on the journey – from briefing freelancers to presenting ideas internally.
- A curious, proactive mindset and a passion for turning great creative into measurable brand impact.
Benefits
- Bonus Leave including Birthday leave, Canon Day leave, Kyosei Day
- Flexible working arrangements, where possible
- Training and development opportunities to help you bring your goals to life
- Wellbeing benefits, including everything from discounted health insurance to flu vaccines to confidential counselling
- Canon products offered at discounted rates
- Education assistance to support the cost of any external training that gives you new skills for your job
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
art directiondesigncopywritingcreative conceptsvisual frameworkscampaign strategylayout productionbrand systemscreative optimizationmotion/video production
Soft Skills
collaborationcreativitycommunicationproactivitycuriosityleadershipproblem-solvingadaptabilityattention to detailbrand guardianship