Sphere Digital Recruitment Group
Creative Lead
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Studio Lead
Creative & Social Agency | London (Hybrid – 3 days in the office)
£60,000+
We're working with a fast-growing, award-winning social and creative agency that's looking for an experienced Studio Lead to build and lead its newly formed creative team.
This is a great opportunity for a senior creative with a strong social background who knows what brilliant creative looks like and, importantly, how to get a team consistently producing it.
The Role
As Studio Lead, you'll take ownership of the agency's creative output, setting the creative standard across a varied client portfolio. You'll lead and develop the creative team, shape ideas from brief through to execution and build the processes and ways of working for the Studio.
This is a newly created role with genuine scope to build something from the ground up.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading and developing the creative team and wider freelance network.
- Setting, maintaining and signing off creative standards across the agency.
- Shaping and refining ideas across social, campaigns and content.
- Leading brainstorms and creative sessions.
- Working closely with Strategy, Social and Account teams.
- Joining strategic meetings and contributing creative thinking.
- Supporting larger campaigns and new business pitches.
- Mentoring creatives through clear, constructive feedback.
- Building effective processes and ways of working within the Studio.
- Staying close to culture, trends and platform-native social creative.
- Getting hands-on with concepts, copy, scripts and creative direction when needed.
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What We're Looking For
- Significant creative experience within a social or creative agency.
- Experience leading, mentoring or managing creatives.
- A strong creative point of view and excellent conceptual thinking.
- Deep understanding of social-first creative across platforms such as TikTok and Instagram.
- Strong creative judgement and the ability to articulate why an idea works.
- Experience working across multiple brands and briefs.
- A collaborative leadership style with high standards and no ego.
- A hands-on approach and willingness to get stuck into the work.
- Confidence working in a fast-paced, growing agency environment.
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Nice to Have
- Experience building or evolving a creative/studio function.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary creative teams.
- Art direction experience.
- Experience with production, shoots and post-production.
- Experience leading creative on pitches and new business.
If you're a senior creative looking for the opportunity to shape a Studio, lead a talented team and raise the creative bar, we'd love to hear from you.
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