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Lead/ Mid-Weight Creative
Creative (AI Specialist)
About the Role
This position is based in our Marketing & Technology service office in London. At DEPT®, we combine data, technology, creative, and paid media to solve brands’ core business problems and drive revenue through a diverse range of digital marketing solutions, including:
- Social media
- Influencer campaigns
- TTL adjacency ads
- Augmented reality
- AI-driven innovations
We serve high-profile clients like eBay, easyJet, Just Eat Takeaway, and PepsiCo.
This is an opportunity to work with our AI-focused clients, producing broad-ranging creative outputs from routine BAU responses to high-stakes in-person workshops and global productions. A dynamic portfolio showcasing versatility and experience across these domains is essential.
You will collaborate with a cross-functional creative team—including designers, producers, and strategists—to deliver impactful, award-winning work. With senior stakeholders across the UK and US, your communication and presentation skills will be critical to fast-paced, client-facing delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Your role demands both creative ingenuity and business acumen:
- Develop award-winning ideas that engage audiences and align with brand objectives while meeting constraints of budget, deadline, and campaign integration.
- Collaborate with the accounts team to ensure smooth monthly production workflows and client handoffs.
- Stay current with media trends, pop culture, and emerging tech (e.g., AI image generation, generative workflows).
- Present work internally and externally with polished diligence; attend and contribute to client-facing creative sprints and in-person workshops.
- Shape new business pitches to support agency growth and expand into cutting-edge platforms.
- Mentor fellow creatives and drive performance through culture-building efforts (networking events, skill-sharing, positive environment).
- Fostering a detailed, perfectionist approach—ensuring work meets the highest standards.
- Champion innovation and experimentation, pushing boundaries through new tech (e.g., AI tools like Imagen*, VR, AR).
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Requirements
Critical qualifications:
✔ AI-native mindset: A genuine passion for AI’s role in advertising/marketing and interest in exploring its limits.
✔ Startlingly broad portfolio: A history of mixed frameworks spanning AI, technology-driven campaigns, social engagements, or experimental formats.
✔ Creative rigor: Unflinching eye for detail, whether fine-tuning pixel work or aligning to a client’s voice.
✔ Team-collaborative: Buy-in to a community-driven model, where generosity of knowledge and lift-as-you-climb ethos matter.
✔ Technologically fluent: Experience with a range of platforms (creative/paid media) alongside understanding of AI-generated assets.
❗ Must-do tech characteristic: Proficient in Figma; AI-powered visual generation (e.g., for ads/archetypes) preferred.
Minimal requirements:
- A knack for exploration and experimentation—curiosity is currency.
- Desire to mentor others, help creating a positive atmosphere.
Benefits
Beyond do-good culture and awesome clients: 📌 Culture-inspired advantages:
- Flexible hybrid work (work where you thrive).
- Freebie bike-to-work scheme and green travel incentives.
- Two healthcare providers (Bupa and Medicash) to choose from.
- 25 annual paid days + birthday and bank holidays off.
- Pension, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and generous parental leave policies.
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🤝 Growth:
- Pathways to certifications and skill-upscaling tailored to your career trajectory.
- Global DEPT® Cares Month: Volunteering time to partner charities (skills + in-kind support).
💡 Our mission: We exist to "Pioneer tomorrow"—helping brands like yours and the diverse people who build them scale ambition and grow skynetwork. Here, there’s little steadship: progress moves fast, tangled into our three core tenets:
- Better Together → performances and professional growth feed off a shared lean-to.
- Relentlessly Curious → we nudge toward new horizons.
- Get Sh*t Done → transformation keeps stress tempered.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At DEPT®, we pride ourselves on: 🔹 Accessible applications: We believe many people don’t apply because they doubt their fit—or those in underrepresented groups self-filter. If you passed this brightline check to some degree? Consider reaching out! 🔹 Reasonable adjustments: From testing in varied environments (study space or employee accompaniments) to our relaxed interview jargon questionnaire process, we’re here to notify us where your process can shine your light more brightly. 🔹 Proud commitments: Review [our culture efforts](link placeholder) and adjust as necessary—we honour bold figures in their own way at DEPT®.
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