Associate Creative Director

<p><br /><strong>Associate Creative Director</strong> <br /><strong>Job Summary</strong> <br />Ready to step into creative leadership without waiting years for the title to catch up with the work you're already doing? <br />Major Players is building a select talent pool of Associate Creative Directors, Senior Art Directors and senior conceptual creatives for upcoming leadership briefs within marketing, employer branding and communications agencies. <br />We're looking for visually led creative leaders who combine bold conceptual thinking with excellent craft. Experience leading and inspiring teams, alongside a willingness to drive innovation through AI-enabled workflows, is essential. <br />These opportunities involve leading integrated work across multiple channels, shaping creative standards and helping multidisciplinary teams produce their best work. <br />There is scope for rapid progression, with direct exposure to senior agency leadership.</p> <p><br /><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead and art-direct integrated creative work from concept to final delivery.</li> <li>Set high standards for ideas, design and craft, providing clear, constructive direction.</li> <li>Manage, mentor and motivate a multidisciplinary creative team.</li> <li>Champion practical, responsible uses of AI across ideation, image-making, motion, prototyping and production.</li> <li>Contribute creative thinking to strategy, planning, EVP development and organic client growth.</li> <li>Shape new-business responses, lead the creative element of pitches and present confidently to clients and senior stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Skills &amp; Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>A strong art direction or design background, with a portfolio of conceptual, multi-channel campaign work.</li> <li>Evidence of the thinking behind your work, including the brief, your role, the central idea and its execution.</li> <li>Experience line-managing, coaching or developing creative people.</li> <li>New-business experience, ideally including ownership of a pitch from brief to presentation.</li> <li>Hands-on curiosity about AI tools and a considered view of their role in the creative process.</li> <li>Strong storytelling, presentation and stakeholder-management skills.</li> <li>Employer brand or recruitment marketing experience would be useful but is not essential. Applications are encouraged from conceptual creatives working within brand, integrated and creative agencies.</li> </ul> <p><br /><strong>Personal Attributes</strong></p> <ul> <li>Ambitious and ready to grow into broader creative leadership.</li> <li>Generous, motivating and skilled in developing others.</li> <li>Refined visual taste; ideas-led, with close attention to craft.</li> <li>Experimental and optimistic about new creative technology.</li> <li>Calm when balancing several clients, projects and priorities.</li> <li>Comfortable collaborating in person and acting as a visible face of the agency.</li> </ul> <p><br /><strong>Salary &amp; Benefits</strong></p> <ul> <li>Roles ranging from £55,000-£80,000, depending on experience.</li> <li>Clear progression route towards Creative Director.</li> <li>High level of influence over the agency's creative direction and culture.</li> <li>Access to significant briefs across a varied client portfolio.</li> <li>Close collaboration with an established in-house film and production capability.</li> </ul> <p><br /><strong>Location &amp; Workplace</strong></p> <ul> <li>London, with hybrid working and regular office collaboration.</li> <li>Flexibility for regular in-person collaboration with the creative team and client meetings.</li> </ul> <p><br />If you would like a confidential chat about these opportunities or your next career move, please connect with Keely Kritz via LinkedIn, sharing your experience and availability.</p> <p><br />Major Players is the UK's leading marketing and creative talent agency. Over the last three decades, we've consistently championed our people and communities. As a proud B Corp™, we are committed to improving diversity, equity and inclusion within the industries we serve, creating impactful and sustainable change for our partners, candidates and employees.</p> <p><br />We offer equal opportunities to all candidates regardless of race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, age or any other protected characteristic, as required by applicable law. For further information about our DE&amp;I commitments, please visit: www.majorplayers.co.uk/diversity-equity-inclusion/ <br /> </p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/a2VlbHkua3JpdHouNzA1NjUuMTM4MTNAbWFqb3JwbGF5ZXJzLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">