Art Director

• Develop and articulate a creative vision that aligns with business growth objectives and marketing strategies
• Lead the ideation, creative development, and execution of all new business pitches, agency branding exercises, and marketing initiatives
• Ensure all creative concepts align with client needs, industry trends, and the agency’s long-term vision
• Ideate, manage and produce pitch and marketing videos, taking video scripts and concepts from internal stakeholders and developing into emotive and engaging content
• Oversee and mentor a cross-functional creative team, fostering a collaborative environment to deliver innovative solutions
• Lead brainstorming sessions and creative reviews, providing constructive feedback and direction to team members
• Manage team workload, timelines, and resources to meet business and project objectives effectively
• Partner with the New Business team to craft compelling pitches that win clients and showcase the agency's unique strengths
• Direct the development of pitch materials, presentations, large scale pitch theatre, experiential design, and marketing collateral that support new client acquisition
• Collaborate closely with account and strategy teams to ensure creative solutions are grounded in consumer insights and brand goals
• Oversee the creative strategy for all agency marketing campaigns, ensuring they reinforce brand identity and position the agency as an industry leader
• Lead the creation of multi-channel marketing campaigns that engage prospects and enhance brand awareness
• Stay informed on emerging industry trends, competitive landscapes, and new technologies to ensure creative work remains innovative and forward-thinking

Creative Director – Growth Team

• Inspiring and leading your team by setting an example of great 'hands on' design solutions
• Mentoring a team of creatives
• Creatively leading and presenting all of your projects
• Guiding and influencing workflow
• Seeing jobs through from concept to print
• Leading briefings and design critiques
• Challenging senior creative team members with innovative and inspiring thinking
• Briefing illustrators, lettering artists and general suppliers
• Art directing photo-shoots

Design Director – 12 month FTC, mat leave cover

• Lead K3’s design studio to deliver on-brand, high‑quality creative that converts.
• Shape the design system, align with stakeholders, and boost performance.
• Manage creative output across the K3 portfolio, ensuring brand consistency and quality.
• Oversee the creative roadmap, manage capacity, and maintain the design system and asset library.
• Research design trends and competitor creative to keep output fresh and effective.
• Partner with brand managers and marketing heads to craft multi-channel campaign creative.

Creative Manager

• Oversee project management team and ensure client satisfaction
• Facilitate delivery of projects across various media
• Manage resource allocation and ensure timely project delivery
• Establish and maintain client accounts and relationships

Creative Services Director

• Define and lead the creative vision for the branded content business across print, digital, video, social, experiential, and emerging platforms
• Champion innovative storytelling and creative excellence that differentiates the organisation in the marketplace
• Establish creative standards, processes, and best practices that elevate the quality and consistency of commercial work
• Ensure all branded content aligns with audience expectations while meeting advertiser objectives and protecting editorial integrity
• Lead strategic ideation for high-value RFPs, proactive opportunities, and integrated marketing campaigns
• Translate business challenges into compelling creative concepts that connect brands with audiences through authentic storytelling
• Collaborate with Sales and Commercial leadership to develop winning pitches that drive revenue growth
• Present strategic recommendations and creative concepts directly to senior clients and agency partners
• Oversee the in-house creative and design studio responsible for visual design, campaign development, presentation design, motion graphics, and creative production
• Ensure efficient workflows, resource planning, and creative quality across simultaneous projects
• Drive continual improvement of creative operations, processes, and collaboration
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a multidisciplinary team of approximately ten creative strategists, designers, art directors, writers, and producers
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing creative culture
• Provide coaching, performance management, career development, and succession planning
• Recruit and retain exceptional creative talent while building team capabilities for evolving client needs
• Partner with Editorial leadership to ensure commercial storytelling reflects the quality and values of the publication
• Collaborate with Marketing, Audience Development, Research, Production, and Analytics teams to develop integrated client solutions
• Work closely with Sales leadership to support business development, key account growth, and strategic partnerships
• Serve as the senior creative voice across the commercial organization
• Build trusted relationships with senior marketers, agencies, and strategic partners
• Lead creative presentations, workshops, and campaign reviews
• Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging platforms, AI-enabled creative tools, audience behaviors, and innovations in branded storytelling
• Represent the organization at industry events and within the broader creative community

Group Creative Director

• Help to refine and sculpt the artistic vision of the game alongside our Art Director and Head of Creative
• Collaborate across teams to ensure the art direction complements gameplay
• Lead and mentor our team of talented artists, giving regular feedback and check-ins on the work produced
• Work to grow the team’s overall capabilities, maintaining and fostering a healthy culture that means everyone is hungry to be class leading across all disciplines.
• Ensure we are delivering quality and consistency regarding the artwork we are creating for our projects
• Communicate and celebrate art progress alongside highlighting risks and concerns looking to optimise the maximum potential of the team

Associate Art Director

• Manage and drive the innovation strategy for AI and Digital Design
• Set the HR AI and automation strategy
• Define and evolve the HR AI architecture
• Shape the AI vendor strategy for HR
• Act as a visible enterprise leader for AI in HR
• Build capability across HR and improve AI literacy
• Design and operationalise AI governance for HR
• Monitor key metrics such as adoption rates and customer satisfaction

Director of AI – Digital Design

• Assume Technical Lead role on projects
• Undertake Project Director roles where required
• Promote staff development through training and personal development
• Ensure compliance with corporate standards
• Develop client relationships with key Water Company clients
• Deliver drainage design and support leadership development

Drainage Design Specialist – Associate Director

• You'll own everything that shapes how the world sees Fanvue, from brand identity and campaign creative to PR, performance ads, and owned channels.
• You'll report directly to the founders with full ownership of the creative function.
• Define Fanvue's brand from the ground up: visual identity, voice, positioning, and the guidelines everyone else builds from.
• Concept and art-direct multi-channel campaigns across social, video, paid, and out-of-home.
• Own narrative and PR: media relationships, the story we tell, and how we position Fanvue publicly.
• Build performance creative that converts across paid social and search, judged on results.
• Make marketing and product feel like one brand, with design-system thinking across both.
• Run owned channels: editorial, social, video, and thought leadership.
• Hire and lead a multidisciplinary creative team.
• Direct external agencies when it's the right call, and know when to build in-house instead.

Creative Director

• Support the CEO and COO of a global Asset Manager to achieve 20% cost reduction across their global operations
• Review of current and design of future operating model to support the ambitions of the business strategy of a large pension fund manager
• Scaling-for-growth review of the current state operating model and design of the future state of a large US-based asset manager
• Design of an operating model for a new Fund Services business, bringing together a leading UK Depositary and Luxembourg-based ManCo business
• Design of the operating model to support the launch of a new sovereign wealth fund targeted to replace fossil fuel incomes
• Design and implementation of an operating model to support the pan-european legal entity structure of one of Italy’s biggest asset managers
• Design of the operating model of a new Southeast Asian state investment fund targeted to provide capital for future infrastructure investment

Director – Operating Model Design, Asset & Wealth Management

• Own the insight, the concept, and the visual vision for campaigns and shoots
• Direct the shoot creatively: cast and select talent, find and brief influencers, and decide the look, the props, and the set
• Own customer interviews and testimonials end to end, from casting to concept
• Coordinate with product and operations on big launches, like a new country or a hardware drop
• Brief the social strategists
• Carry every concept from the first idea to the final frame

Art Director – Campaigns

• - Champion the sharing of creative work and inspiration both internally and externally
• - Identify and develop skills within the team through training and mentorship
• - Lead client-facing presentations with excellence in communication
• - Deliver impactful pitches and strategies that influence client outcomes
• - Provide constructive feedback on design work and guide projects towards creative excellence
• - Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to achieve optimal results for clients

Design Director

• Define, direct and elevate design across the Creative Studio.
• Lead some of our most ambitious and strategically important projects while helping raise the creative bar across the wider studio.
• Mentor and develop Lead Designers, strengthen team capability and influence the evolution of our creative output through your standards, leadership and taste.
• Take ownership of a key area of creative innovation or capability, helping shape how our Creative Studio grows in the future.

Freelance Design Director

• Own and evolve the GW visual identity across all touchpoints — print, digital, social, motion and experiential
• Define and maintain the brand design system: typography, colour, iconography, grid and motion principles
• Set and document the guardrails that let the wider team produce on-brand work independently and at pace, acting as the final checkpoint on consistency
• Build and manage a library of templates, components and reusable assets in Figma, InDesign and After Effects, designed to speed up turnaround without sacrificing quality
• Champion intelligent reuse of the GW archive — photography, illustration, typography and footage — with workflows to surface and adapt it for new contexts
• Keep asset infrastructure well-organised, version-controlled and accessible to the team
• Lead the design of Gardeners' World Magazine and brand marketing collateral, working closely with the editorial team
• Direct visual output across GW digital platforms — website, newsletter and app
• Ensure design reflects audience segmentation, adapting the visual register for Established Gardeners, New Gardeners and Hobbyists
• Bring genuine fluency in social formats — knowing what lands on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Apple News versus what belongs in a print spread — and translate editorial and seasonal moments into social-first creative that feels native, not repurposed
• Oversee motion graphics, animated social content and short-form video in After Effects
• Work with the social and editorial teams on visual content calendars, deploying design resource where it has most impact
• Line manage a team of designers and motion artists, providing creative direction, mentoring and performance support
• Brief and quality-control work from freelance designers and retouchers
• Foster a culture of creative ambition, craft pride and brand coherence
• Represent design in cross-disciplinary planning and contribute to the wider creative strategy

Multimedia Design Director

• Collaborate with the Creative Director, Director of Art, Director of Copy and Head of Creative on key campaign projects and shoots.
• Contribute to the development of creative briefs and campaign responses, working with Creative Directors, Marketing and cross-functional partners to ensure alignment with brand objectives.
• Develop ideas across existing and emerging digital platforms, with an understanding of how creative should adapt across social and digital environments.
• Develop visual territories, mood boards, storyboards and presentation materials that support concept development and campaign execution.
• Present creative work and visual thinking to senior creative stakeholders, responding positively to feedback and refining work throughout the creative development process.
• Lead the creative development of smaller-scale campaigns and campaign extensions where appropriate, whilst supporting senior creative leadership on larger campaign initiatives.
• Lead the day-to-day art direction of assigned always-on campaigns, working closely with retouching and post-production teams to ensure assets are delivered to a high visual standard.
• Support campaign development from concept through to delivery, including visual ideation, shoot execution, art direction on set and post-production across web, email, paid and organic social, video content, TVC and OOH.
• Oversee the creative development of digital marketing assets, working closely with creative, design and marketing teams to ensure consistency across outputs.
• Partner with NPD and Pro Artists to build a strong understanding of new product launches and the core range, ensuring creative work reflects product strategy and storytelling.
• Deliver high-quality creative work, applying both creative judgement and performance insights to support effective campaign execution.
• Explore the use of Generative AI within concept development, campaign extension and creative production workflows where appropriate.
• Stay informed on developments across beauty, photography, design and post-production, applying relevant learnings to creative work and ways of working.
• Support the successful delivery of projects by proactively managing creative actions and maintaining strong communication with relevant teams and stakeholders.

• Champion insight‑led creativity, working closely with strategy to turn cultural, consumer and category insights into powerful ideas.
• Review and elevate creative briefs, ensuring they are inspiring, focused and strategically on point.
• Lead the development of big ideas across experiential, digital, social and retail environments.
• Build compelling presentation narratives that bring ideas to life and excite clients using AI, visualising and 3D to bring these to life in polished and impactful ways.
• Confidently present bold, inspiring creative work to senior clients and in pitch environments.
• Lead and Inspire, mentor and develop creative talent, particularly more junior team members.
• Partner with the Executive Creative Director and Client Development teams to grow and strengthen beauty client relationships.
• Understand and manage creative budgets, time allocation and resource planning.

Creative Director – Beauty

• Provide creative leadership to the design teams to deliver a range of collaterals (i.e., brochures, placemats, illustration, layouts, infographics, on-screen presentations, proposals, microsites, motion graphic content and social media collaterals)
• Produce strategically sound conceptual work and bring it to life through rapid prototyping and storyboard creation and all the way through post-production
• Adhere to EY brand guidelines, meet, and exceed defined expectations in terms of aesthetics, quality, turnaround time, budget and efficiency
• Stay up-to-date with current and future designs, web standards, concepts and industry trends and advocate the same to team members and customers
• Proactively identify opportunities to employ pop culture trends, creativity, executional approaches and techniques to create exceptional user experiences
• Mentor junior team members on best design practices
• Prioritize deadlines and effectively manage multiple creative projects parallelly

Supervising Associate – Art Director

• Own the end-to-end creative process from brief to final delivery, producing high-quality video, motion, design, and event assets aligned to brand standards and campaign priorities.
• Develop compelling storytelling concepts that bring hx's brand, customer success, and product narrative to life across multimedia formats.
• Lead creative direction and production planning for out-of-home and experiential brand activations, coordinating execution for flagship events and priority campaigns.
• Scope and coordinate external creative production partners — agencies, editors, photographers, and specialist freelancers — ensuring quality and delivery against tight timelines.
• Use AI-native tools and industry-standard creative software to accelerate output and maintain creative consistency across a growing volume of work.
• Collaborate closely with the Corporate Marketing team, product marketing, and leadership to turn strategic briefs into launch-ready creative that drives brand visibility and audience engagement.

Multimedia Creative Manager

• Lead the development of big social-first creative ideas across campaigns and retained clients
• Push for culturally relevant and platform-native thinking across all creative output
• Ensure work is built for how people consume content in-feed across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and emerging platforms
• Contribute to pitch work, campaign development and creative innovation
• Lead campaign ideation from briefing through to execution
• Collaborate closely with Strategy teams to translate insights into compelling creative concepts
• Ensure creative work balances entertainment, storytelling and brand objectives
• Champion social-first storytelling and creator-led thinking throughout projects
• Mentor and support creatives across the department
• Provide clear and constructive creative feedback
• Work collaboratively with Production, Video, Edit and Client Services teams to deliver strong work
• Support the growth of a positive, ambitious and creatively driven culture
• Maintain high standards of craft and creative consistency across projects
• Stay deeply connected to culture, trends, creators and platform behaviours
• Bring new creative formats, storytelling approaches and social innovations into the agency
• Help evolve Uncovered’s creative offering as social platforms continue to change

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Creative Director – Growth Team

Design Director – 12 month FTC, mat leave cover

Creative Manager

Creative Services Director

Group Creative Director

Associate Art Director

Director of AI – Digital Design

Drainage Design Specialist – Associate Director

Creative Director

Director – Operating Model Design, Asset & Wealth Management

Art Director – Campaigns

Design Director

Freelance Design Director

Multimedia Design Director

Art Director

Creative Director – Beauty

Supervising Associate – Art Director

Multimedia Creative Manager

Creative Director