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Creative Lead
Location: Notting Hill, London
Salary & Benefits: Competitive salary + benefits
About Us
At Simmer, we’re on a mission to make healthy eating effortless. We create chef-made, high-protein meals inspired by global flavours—making nourishing food accessible for busy people every day.
What began as £10 worth of ingredients and family recipes has grown into one of the UK’s fastest-growing businesses. In both 2025 and 2026, The Sunday Times named Simmer as the 5th fastest-growing company in the UK.
While we’re proud of this achievement, our focus is squarely on what’s next—a profitable, founder-led business that aims to reshape the healthy eating industry. We’ve scaled through product excellence, data-driven performance marketing, and an unwavering commitment to our customers. Now, we’re advancing our vision: we don’t just want to build a great food company—we want to create a brand people choose, share, and remember.
We remain a lean, agile team, where collaboration is shared across all levels. Whether it’s strategy, execution, or decision-making, great ideas can come from anywhere—and those who join us have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
We’re ambitious but refuse to take ourselves too seriously. There’s still so much to build, and we believe we’re only at the beginning.
The Role
We’re seeking a Creative Lead to shape Simmer’s next creative chapter—one who thrives in building, not just maintaining. This means combining creative direction, production, and operational thinking to define not just the work we create, but how we bring it to life effectively.
You’ll partner closely with our founders, Head of Brand, and Growth team to develop platform-native, culturally resonant, and commercially effective creative. You’re the type of person who craves meaning—you notice what others miss, collect inspiring work, and understand why audiences stop scrolling, engage, or remember a campaign.
Your comfort spans campaign production, performance ads, creator collaborations, and production workflows. Equally, you’re pragmatic—turning your creative vision into results-driven output without compromising quality or speed.
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Ultimately, we’re looking for a builder who wants to create a creative function they’ll be proud of in two to three years.
What You’ll Do
Creative Execution
- Design culturally relevant, platform-specific, and high-impact creative.
- Lead execution across:
- Paid social
- Organic content
- Website
- Campaigns
- Packaging
- Founder-generated content
- Product launches
- Elevate quality and consistency across all our touchpoints.
End-to-End Production
- Own production from concept to delivery, including:
- Planning
- Budgeting
- Location/talent/freelancer bookings
- Managing photographers, videographers, editors, and stylists
- Leading in-person and virtual shoots
- Ensuring high-quality output at pace.
Build Our Creative Function
- Opportunity: Shape Simmer’s creative capabilities for sustainable growth.
- Create scalable, efficient systems—instilling clarity without adding inefficiency.
- Develop and nurture a trusted freelancer network (production, design, motion, editing).
- Continually refine quality, speed, and output.
Performance Creative
- Treat creative as a critical growth lever, collaborating with the Growth team.
- Refine and iterate creative using data, A/B testing, and audience insights.
- Distinct focus on work that earns attention and drives commercial results—not just aesthetics.
Protect & Evolve the Brand
- Champion quality and challenge generic work, raising the bar.
- Ensure every customer interaction—matter it’s a Meta ad, founder narrative, podcast, or campaign—feels distinctively Simmer.
What We’re Looking For
Where experience matters:
- Proven expertise in creative production, branded content, D2C, or content creation, preferably within fast-moving consumer brands, agencies, or studios.
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What matters more: We’re not just looking for a creator—we want a builder. Candidates who have:
- Shaped systems—whether it’s a creative function, production workflows, freelance networks, or a better way to bring fulfil work to life.
- Exceptional creative judgement and a keen visual eye.
- Equally strong in brand storytelling and performance marketing.
- Experience with social-first content and campaigns of all scales.
- Confidence in end-to-end shoot management (pre-production to delivery).
- Ability to simplify workflows without adding bureaucracy.
- Highly adaptive, organised, and resourceful—Thriving under pressure.
- Proactive, problem-solver, who acts on opportunities.
- Founder-oriented mindset—comfortable pushing decision-making.
- Extroverted intelligence in spotting potential without waiting for direction.
Ideal candidates share a builder’s mindset and a bias towards action—Someone who envision what’s yet to exist and enables others to build it.
Experience in ex.
- Founder-led D2C, wellness, lifestyle, fashion, creator-enabled, or sports brands is bonus, but not essential.
Why Join Simmer?
This is your chance to help define Simmer’s future before it’s too late.
- Work close to the founders from day one—with ownership and impact from the start.
- Join at a critical stage—where you’ll elevate the creative function and turn ideas into industry-leading work.
- Scale with one of the UK’s fastest-growing consumer brands, in an environment that’s as culturally vibrant as it is commercially focused.
- An excitement of building—where your contributions create lasting change.
We’re seeking ambitious thinkers who love working fast, moving smart, and leaving their mark. If you want to build a legacy while scaling a brand that’s redefining healthy eating, we’d love to meet you.
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