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Art Director @ Independent Growth Agency
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Art Director Opportunity at a Fast-Growing Creative Agency
A fast-growing independent creative agency is looking for an Art Director to help support the Creative Director on pitches and live client work, and shape large campaigns as they scale. Known for their work with corporate, public sector and brand-led clients, including strong finance and fintech accounts, this is a compelling opportunity for an Art Director who has worked on agency accounts to craft client work from end-to-end. In this role, you won't wait years for creative responsibility, you'll have it immediately. This is a growth hire, and will bring ambitious drive and follow-through to add senior creative support to a busy, expanding team.
Key Responsibilities
- Concept alongside the Creative Director on account pitches, campaign ideas, brand activations and identity work
- Art direction across brand and campaign, spanning social, identity and content
- Help bring ideas to life visually, with enough design craft to execute hands-on when needed
- Build campaign assets for social and digital, with a growing OOH presence
- Create presentations and pitch decks that sell concepts, and present them directly to clients with confidence
- Work across a mix of B2B briefs and broader brand/public-facing campaigns
- Collaborate across creative, PR and moving-image projects where needed
- Make things happen, film, content, whatever it takes to bring an idea to life
- Use AI tools proactively to accelerate ideas and explore creative possibilities
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Skills & Experience
- 3-5 years of experience at an ad agency, brand agency or creative agency environment
- A portfolio showing both conceptual thinking and design craft across B2B, corporate or commercially minded clients
- Campaign experience across branding and social, OOH a bonus
- Finance or fintech experience would be a strong advantage
- Comfortable working with designers using motion, film or content creation
- In-house backgrounds will also be considered where the pace, ambition and creative standard are right
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Personal Attributes
- A conceptual thinker who can help shape how campaign ideas come to life from the outset
- Someone comfortable getting hands-on and rolling their sleeves up where needed
- Confident in client-facing presentations and able to contribute from day one
- Brings a fast-paced, ambitious mindset with the energy to drive a growing team
- Proactive and a maker- finds ways to make things happen instead of waiting for others
- Excited by autonomy, responsibility and the chance to make a visible impact in a growing independent agency
Role Details
- Salary: £40,000 - £50,000
- Location: Central London
- Office Days: 2-3 days per week in office
- Start Date: ASAP
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