JOB OVERVIEW
We’re looking for an Associate Creative Director to lead the creative output on some of our biggest accounts.
This is a role for a creative leader who loves social and understands that the best social ideas have creators at the core of them. You’ll sit at the intersection of brands and culture, bringing a sharp eye for both brand and creator.
You’ll have deep experience developing big social campaigns and always-on brand social content, with a clear understanding of what makes ideas stand out, travel and cut through.
You’ll see the potential for social to go beyond the feed, with experience across channels such as experiential, OOH and wider integrated campaigns. You understand how to take a strong idea and make it work in different spaces, without losing what makes it distinctive.
You’ll help drive the thinking, elevate the output, and help the team to get to better work faster.
This role sits between making and leading. You’ll set the tone for what good looks like through your own work, whilst also directing and elevating the work of the team.
You’ll have an appreciation for both the conceptual and the executional.
You know how to take a brief, dissect it, and translate it into clear, actionable direction. You partner closely with Strategy, Client Services, and Production to shape the response, then lead your team through execution. Ensuring the work is culturally relevant, emotionally resonant, and built to perform.
As part of this role you’ll partially oversee a team of in-house creators, ideating and producing social first content at the speed of culture.
You’ll have a strategic mind helping to identify opportunities and empty spaces others might miss in collaboration with the strategy team.
You’ll be fluent in the language of the internet, aware of trends, memes and viral moments and know how and when to capitalise on those for our clients.
You also have experience working with creators, and understand how to collaborate with them in a way that elevates both the idea and the output.
Our creative north star is simple. Reject the comfortable, do the unexpected.
WHAT DOES GREAT LOOK LIKE?
Creative Thinking
You’ll be the main creative thinker on BDBs largest and most complex creative briefs. Developing social-first, creator led ideas, rooted in culture.
You’ll be expected to develop and articulate compelling and original creative solutions for these projects with full autonomy.
Shape ideas that are designed to live natively through creators organic channels, brand channels and across platforms
You’ll know how to collaborate with talent to build content worlds, not just one off posts
You’ll be expected to understand and be able to develop creative ideas on three levels; executional, conceptual and business-level
Play a key role in pitching and winning new business
Present and defend creative work with clarity and confidence
Creative Direction, Leadership & Mentorship
You’ll qualify briefs for the creative team, ensuring the projects are set up for success. Interrogating briefs to identify unseen creative opportunities.
You’ll set creative direction and coach other team members to develop the best creative ideas they can, competently identifying core ideas within their thinking and guiding them with further development.
You’ll manage a team of diverse creatives on a day to day basis, discussing career progression, objective setting, and where necessary having difficult conversations situations to improve performance.
You’ll advocate for creativity and creative effectiveness, establishing yourself as a clear voice of authority for executional and conceptual creativity. This will involve proactively sharing great creative work with the global BDB team, and empowering everyone to achieve better creative ideas.
Client Relations
Act as senior creative voice with clients, building strong, trusted relationships
Present work with clarity and confidence, bringing clients along the creative journey
Business & Commercial…