At a glance
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- London
About the role
- As Creative Director (copywriter) at AKQA London, you will inspire and lead a team of creatives to craft compelling narratives that drive meaningful change.
- Through storytelling, innovation, and problem-solving, you will shape ideas that resonate with audiences and transform their experiences.
- Your role is to push the boundaries of innovative creativity, influencing the future of brand expression and engagement while inspiring some of the world's most forward-thinking companies.
Responsibilities
- Deliver and inspire award-winning work from your team, influencing change through ideas, creativity, and innovative brand experiences across any channel.
- Consistently deliver a number of successful solutions and high-quality work to clients on time.
- Immerse within the client's business to identify, understand, and overcome commercial and internal challenges.
- Contribute to the strategic development of a well-defined creative brief and any additional briefing documents.
- Contribute thought leadership and team leadership to the conversation of the Writing practice.
- Generate useful, usable ideas across all existing and emerging platforms.
- Continually develop practices and processes to inspire, innovate, and harness new ways of thinking - including the use of AI.
- Set creative direction and offer hands-on guidance throughout client team projects.
- Creatively lead new business pitches and competently present pitches.
- Be hands-on from a design craft standpoint using creative programs and emerging AI tools.
Requirements
- Extensive experience working at an Associate Creative Director or Creative Director level in a similar agency environment with a background in Copywriting.
- Demonstrated creative success in leading collaborative multi-functional teams, including project planning, to winning a number of industry-recognised awards.
- Considerable experience of European and Global projects.
- Experience developing and leading client relationships.
- Curiosity and hunger to experiment with new creative tools and ways of working.
- Proven track record generating new business.
- Exceptional information presentation experience, both visual and written.
- Experience in, and enthusiasm for, creating digital platforms and products from brief to delivery and beyond.
- Experience in side-by-side collaboration with UX and development teams and leaders.
- Expert knowledge of user interface, application, mobile, and responsive design, using the latest prototyping and design tools.
Benefits
- Ongoing personal and professional development
- Access to wellbeing support and development
Workplace
- Hybrid approach including required in-office days
Skills
- Copywriting
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma
- AI Tools
- Responsive Design
- Prototyping
- Design Tools
- Interaction Design
