Creative Art Director and Copywriter

Job description

Are you brimming with ideas? Able to express them fluently in pixels and ink? Love the craft of art direction, design and copywriting? Can you collaborate and take the team on a journey, sharing brilliant ideas executed with craft and care?

We’re looking for someone exceptional, visionary and dedicated to taking our creative offering to the next level.

Working alongside the Creative Director, Production, Founders and wider team, you will be intrinsic to the success of our agency. You’ll be guaranteed to learn new things and set yourself up for a career that is future proofed and visionary.

You’ll build successful ego free, working relationships with internal teams and contribute to new business opportunities. You will be supporting the wider team on the successful and ongoing delivery of clients’ advertising & media campaigns. You will cover an array of disciplines within the role including branding, offline, digital, web, social, TV, audio, promotions, partnerships and sponsorships. 360 asset concepting, creation and delivery.


Creative Capabilities:

This is a hybrid creative role. You’ll be given the opportunity to be involved from the insight and strategy stages, all the way through concepting, media planning and execution. We are looking for someone with copywriting and art directing experience.

Specifics:

Understanding of how brands are built, behave and play out creatively

Ability to create options of creative thinking that fluently traverse all media - print, film, audio, digital, social, TV and new technologies

Hands on ability to create presentations and materials in presentation platforms.

Ideally be proficient in using Adobe Creative Products (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AFX, etc).

Manage multiple projects across multiple clients.

Present creative to clients and on pitches.

Be able to think in words, communicate in powerful, long and short copy

Be able to brief, work with and oversee designers, photographers, directors and partner co-creators

Be a good communicator, have excellent project and time-management skills and the ambition to take on more responsibilities

Use research and insights to inform creative

Develop relationships with key partners outside of the agency

Deep interest in wider popular culture - art, music, fashion, politics, dance and anything that can help us think outside of the creative agency echo chamber. We want to create work that populates popular culture and maybe doesn’t feel like advertising at all


Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required:

We are looking for you to come in and help our business grow. You should already be very familiar with agency life, culture and working - with a few years experience of working hands-on with clients to deliver outstanding ad campaigns. We want to draw on a wide range of your experience including:

Good people, organisational and analytical skills.

Good problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and execute effective solutions.

Strong attention to detail.

Proactive attitude to try and improve the creative work and/or the delivery of campaigns.

Work well under pressure and thrive in a busy agency environment.

Create strong and effective internal and external partnerships and collaborate across the business. Listen and value the opinions of others.

Focus on the efficient, accurate and timely delivery of client projects.
Take ownership of personal actions and outcomes.

Embrace change; maintain an open mind and be flexible and adaptable in the face of ambiguity and change.

Proactively seek opportunities to increase knowledge, skills and abilities.
Monitor and pursue growth opportunities to enhance expertise and drive career development.

Demonstrable interest and passion for all things media and marketing-related.

The Package

In addition to a competitive salary (DOE) we’ll give you everything you need to operate at the top of your game:

Full IPA & BIMA Membership

Ongoing dedicated training budget

Regular agency socials (non-compulsory!) and all the perks of agency life

Self-development funding for life, not just as an aip employee

Mentoring scheme

Access to hospitality at a Premier League football stadium

Headspace subscription

Healthcare benefits

Flexible working

Unlimited holiday

London and Brighton offices - but work wherever you are at your best

Midweek lunch budgets

Access to a world-class research suite including Nielsen, Similarweb, WARC, IPA, BARB, SEMrush, aipAware, YouGov

Access to aip's business library - if we don’t have the book you want to read (unlikely!), we add it to the bookshelf.

The Agency

About our agency:

Anything is Possible.

We believe this so much, we made it our brand. And it’s core to our creative outlook.

Anything is Possible is not your traditional agency. We fuse the best in creative with smart media buying, and a fluent understanding of the application of new technology. We’re a new kind of ad agency, specialised in data-driven, integrated communications, media planning across all digital and offline channels, and end-to-end creative services.