Senior Art Director, Brilliant Creative Agency (Maidenhead, UK)
Are you a visionary Senior Art Director with a passion for crafting unforgettable brand experiences? A brilliant creative agency is seeking a talented individual to join my client's team in Maidenhead. This hybrid role requires three days in the office and 2 days working from home.
The agency, they specialise in creating physical and digital events that transform consumers into brand fans. With 20 years of marketing expertise, they partner with clients to deliver insight-led creative and engaging brand experiences across various sectors, including FMCG, health and beauty, luxury goods, retail, and technology. My client's work blends creative flair, technical know-how, and commercial awareness to produce standout consumer experiences in both digital and retail spaces.
The Role:
As a Senior Art Director, you will be instrumental in leading, creating, developing, and delivering award-winning solutions for my client's diverse client base. You'll support my client's Creative Directors in ideating, developing, designing, and delivering creative solutions, primarily for my client's experiential clients. This role requires a deep dive into projects, meticulously crafting experiences, narratives, and details that make them truly special, working closely with my client's visualizers and design team to bring your ideas to life.
You will also:
* Lead on projects, collaborating closely with senior team members, strategists, and my client's Creative Production Director to achieve commercial and creative objectives.
* Keep internal departments and project leads updated on progress.
* Support new business pitches, producing outstanding creative concepts that help to inspire and procure new clients.
* Enrich my client's agency's capability of delivering creative solutions in the experiential world, OOH and at times in a retail environment.
About you
* A passion for experiential with at least 5 years’ experience, ideally in a similar role within a live activation/experiential-focused agency, including retail experiential, possibly theatre design.
* A demonstrable understanding of integrated work, translating brands beyond their advertising campaign and product into different channels.
* Fluency in In-Design, Illustrator and other Creative Suite programmes, as well as MS Office.
* The ability to blend commercial awareness with passion and creative flair.
* Instinctive brand awareness and demonstrated experience of pushing boundaries and evolving brands.
* An openness to learn, collaborate, inspire and innovate.