Creative Director
Insight + Art + People = Creating the beautiful.
We usually respond within two weeks
What you will do
- Work closely with our Chief Product Officer and Director of Social, Creative and Influencer to determine overall direction and execution, shaping our creative vision and delivering transformative results
- Act as the liaison between the creative team and other departments to ensure alignment on goals and priorities to unlock bold, integrated campaign solutions
- Uncover creative opportunities throughout the business, collaborating with strategy and activation teams to inspire effective and seamless applications of creativity in channel
- Work with our product, growth and marketing teams to secure dream clients and deliver thought leadership
- Lead project costing exercises, balancing budgetary constraints with innovative solutions
- Translate business objectives into actionable creative strategies that resonate with target audiences
- Create and oversee the development of fresh and bold executions (from video to PR to social)
- Support the other content-led services, such as Digital PR, Digital Experience and Social to deliver stand-out ideas and visuals
- Coordinate with external partners, agencies, and freelancers to augment internal capabilities when necessary
Requirements
- You have experience as a Design / Creative Director or similar in a leadership role in a fast-paced, performance marketing creative environment
- You have experience in creative development and production
- You have lead and mentored multidisciplinary design teams, fostering collaboration and professional growth
- You have an exceptional portfolio showcasing a range of successful campaigns and innovative projects
- You understand design principles, storytelling, and branding across multiple mediums
- You’re experienced in liaising with clients and cross-functional teams, ensuring cohesive and impactful outcomes
Diversity & Inclusion
Journey Further takes pride in creating an environment where everyone can be themselves. This starts with recruitment.
We pledge to make our roles as open as possible and to provide equal opportunities to everyone that is kind enough to give us their time. All recruitment decisions we take will be based solely on the positive skills and behaviours that applicants display and absolutely nothing else.
We do not discriminate based on any personal characteristic, we are a people first agency and we care about and celebrate individuals.
If something is important to you, it's important to us. If you have a particular need during the application process or during your time at Journey Further, please let us know.
- Department
- Creative
- Locations
- Leeds, Manchester
- Yearly salary
- £60,000 - £77,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
Perks & Benefits
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Flexibility
We understand that everyone works differently, so we provide them the freedom to work how they want, when they want and where they want. No role is ever fully remote as we want people to be spending time with one another in person – however, we will support you in making sure you are supported in what ways of working suit you best.
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Experience
Work alongside one of the most experienced digital teams in the industry, and collaborate directly with clients at some of the world’s largest brands and high-growth startups, including Virgin, Sky and Oddbox.
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Trust
We believe in giving ambitious people incredible autonomy in their work. You’ll have the freedom to tackle complex problems and the support of some of the talented people in the industry to do so.
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Wellbeing
We actively care for our team’s physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
We run various company initiatives to help promote physical wellbeing – yoga, running club, 5-a-side football to name a few.
We believe in taking a proactive approach when it comes to all our people’s mental wellbeing. As such we have partnered with experts (Vitality and Chakra Corporate) that our people can turn to.
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Learning
Through our Learn Together sessions, Book Club and Podcast, we learn from the best minds in the world and apply the most valuable insight to the work we do and how we run the business.
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CSR
CSR is a key priority for the business. We’re currently working on how we can make a lasting, positive impact on the world around us. Recent initiatives we are proud of include our cycling challenge for Breast Cancer Now, our donation to PhysCap and Jon’s campaign to support local food banks.
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Benefits
Our benefits package is constantly evolving. In the UK it currently includes:
- Pension matched up to 4%
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Private medical insurance
- Personal health fund
- Home working allowance
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and Christmas shutdown
- Unlimited unpaid holiday
In the US it currently includes:
- 401k matching
- Subsidized Medical, Dental & Vision
Company Life Insurance - Enhanced Maternity & Paternity cover
- Flexible and Remote working
- 25 days paid time off plus all federal holidays & office closure between Christmas and New Year
- Unlimited unpaid time off
About Journey Further
Journey Further is a performance marketing agency working with the world's leading brands and fast-growth start-ups. We blend strategic thinking, creativity, digital channels and experimentation to create the performance brands of tomorrow.
Creative Director
Insight + Art + People = Creating the beautiful.
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