Job Description
Description Digital Creative Director
Job Type: Perm
Salary: up to £95,000
Location: London / WFH 1-2 days a week (After Covid)
Consultant: Rosie Whelan
The Organisation:
Digital Recruitment Company is working with an award-winning creative engagement Agency blending strategy, creativity, and technology to help brands define and deliver their vision.
They have been successfully building clients for over twenty years and ranked one of the highest digital agencies.
They are an Econsultancy Top 100 Digital Agency, Top 100 Design & Build Agency and won the Best Digital Agency at the 2019 Digital Experience Awards.
The Role:
Our client is looking for an inspiring Digital Creative leader to join their Brand experience team.
As a passionate creative thinker, you will lead the creative vision for your clients, bringing together brand strategy, business goals and user insight, to deliver beautifully crafted, category defining, brand experiences.
Their work is diverse in sector and nature and so they are looking for someone who is comfortable and excited at working across channels, someone who takes an integrated ecosystem view of brand experience. You will be working principally across, Digital service design, Digital product design and Digital communications, designing innovative solutions for Mobile, Web and Desktop Applications for customers and employees.
Key Skills:
As a creative visionary you will be a skilled storyteller and presenter, able to communicate your concept and take the team and client with you on the journey.
You will be hands on in approach to setting the creative direction through a range of techniques, including: Workshops, Journey mapping, Prototyping, Visual and Verbal positioning and design. But you will also be equally skilled at delegating and inspiring your team to deliver the solution.
Core Responsibilities:
Leadership and management
- Contribute to the continued success and delivery of the agency and the team’s creative philosophy, objectives and strategies that will lead the creative output for clients
- Guide, inspire and nurture your team and clients with relevant thinking that’s insightful, fresh and challenging
- Show yourself as a confident and approachable leader, building the team through recruitment, discovering young talent and overseeing the induction of new creative team members
- Manage your team’s professional development and run annual reviews as a line manager for Design Director (DD) and Senior Designers (SD). Including setting objectives, organizing training and development plans, and aligning them to the agency and creative team’s ambitions
- Supervise, mentor, motivate, and manage the performance of the creative team to ensure the overall efficiency of the day-to-day progression
- Work closely with the Delivery and Client Services (CS) teams to develop project approaches, build project teams, plan tasks accordingly, and ensure goals and deadlines are met
- Assign, oversee, and review the written and designed outputs of the team and other creative tasks
within a project - Plan and resource creative work and team members on a weekly basis, ensuring the right designers, writers and creatives are involved in the right projects
- Attend and contribute to management and leadership team meetings, creative showcases and team meetings – this will vary for each Creative Director (CD)
- Work collaboratively with the other CDs and Executive Creative Director (ECD), Heads of Departments and Directors (D) to establish and maintain the Rufus vision across the creative team
- Be a line manager to DD and SD
Creative direction and vision
- Apply outstanding creativity with a strong artistic feel and produce quality craft with an unwavering eye for detail
- Display an impressive conceptual and strategic outlook, thinking both literally and laterally to produce original ideas, push creative boundaries and challenge the status-quo
- Willing to always try new ideas and experiment with new tools
- Become the main point of contact for our clients’ creative vision, in line with the creative brief, clearly understanding their goals, needs, and expectations – ensuring the team delivers the best creative outputs aligned to their ambition
- Create and guide the creative concepts by providing guidance in execution and overseeing the concept to completion
- Continuously build and develop the creative excellence of your team
- Communicate effectively with the design team you oversee on a project, leading the creative direction with inspiration, feedback, support, advice, insight and ideas
- Consistently be receptive to and encourage the sharing of different perspectives and ideas from your team, while understanding when to be decisive and defend key design decisions
- Generate ideas that redefine the brand experience, create business and brand transformation, and push the boundaries of where brand and digital ideas meet
- Encourage and introduce varied creative inspiration and exploration, bringing in references from outside of the visual norm (think motion, music, sensory, experiential and language)
- Initiate and champion collaboration across disciplines (UX, Strategy, Copy, Tech, Production and Client Services), encouraging integrated working teams to create and deliver outstanding creative solutions for our clients’ customers
- Ensure the quality and coherence of creative solutions (both visuals and messaging), including interactive and motion designs, are to an exceptionally high standard
- Sign-off on all creative work by CD before it’s handed over to another team (e.g. Development or Production) or to the clients
- Demonstrate a continuous commitment to proactively developing ideas and opportunities for brands, clients and projects
- Keep up to date with the latest developments in the creative industry, looking for new and innovative trends in branding, marketing, design and advertising, as well as technological advances to share with the creative team
- Coordinate and lead idea generating sessions, spearheading new digital innovation, creative technologies and touchpoints
- Lead, maintain and continuously improve the creative process and ways of working
- Create and develop new techniques for promoting brand development and management philosophies – using digital delivery where appropriate
- Lead the presentation of final design solutions, ensuring clients understand the approach, in order to obtain their approval and feedback accordingly
- Work closely with Strategy, CX and UX teams to bring to life strategies, roadmaps, user journeys and personas
- Contribute to creative briefs, statements of work and proposals, including planning and running creative workshops and immersions
- Work with Sales, Marketing and Managing Partners to seek out and unlock new business opportunities
- Speak at external events, contribute to press stories, thought pieces and insight articles
- Help deliver any other key initiatives for the agency.
Operational and commercial
- Demonstrate excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to multitask and manage multiple projects, meetings and workloads – eitheras a hands-on creative or by providing day-to-day creative oversight
- Ensure the execution of all creative work stays within project budgets
- Input accurately into costs and timing estimates and proposals where appropriate
- Communicate clearly and regularly with the Delivery and CS teams throughout a project – providing clear progress and status updates to mitigate risks or delays for the design team
- Develop and share ways to improve the efficiencies of the team (project and creative) with techniques, ways of working and processes
- Recognise and implement the practice of delivering ideas and concepts efficiently and effectively, drawing on the strength of tried-and-tested techniques and approaches
- Understand and work to our ‘ways of working’ framework, approach and delivery processes
- Work with Managing Partners, CS and Delivery teams on developing and delivering account plans for your clients
Applications and software
Essential:
- Proficient in of Adobe Creative programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
- Proficient in of Sketch, Figma or Adobe XD
- Show familiarity with prototyping tools such as InVision, Marvel and Principle
- Demonstrate clear working knowledge and understanding of best practice
user experience and accessibility standards - Display strong working knowledge of word-processing (Microsoft Office) and presentation software including Keynote and Microsoft PowerPoint
Nice to have:
- Experience in video production and motion design, especially After Effects
- An understanding of HTML and CSS
Digital Design Director
United Kingdom, London Design JobsDigital Design Director
Job Type: Perm
Salary: up to £75,000
Location: London / WFH 1-2 days a week (After Covid)
Consultant: Rosie Whelan
The Organisation:
Digital Recruitment Company is working with an award-winning creati...
Digital Designer
United Kingdom, London Design JobsDigital Designer
Job Type: Perm
Salary: up to £40,000
Location: London / WFH 1-2 days a week (After Covid)
Consultant: Rosie Whelan
The Organisation:
Digital Recruitment Company is working with an award-winning creative enga...
Global Senior Graphic Designer
United Kingdom, London Design JobsGlobal Senior Graphic Designer
Job Type: Perm
Salary: £65,000 plus package & 10% Bonus
Location: Nuremberg (Germany) / WFH 2-3 days a week
Consultant: Toby Day
Company
We are working with a world's leading multibillion research, d...
+ Statistics
Google Analytics Google Analytics is an analytics tool to measure website, app, digital and offline data to gain user insights. Yes No
+ Marketing