Creative Lead
Location: GB, LND, 
Department: Creative
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Media Production
Function: Art/Creative
Company profile: As augmented reality jobs go, one at Blippar is hard to beat. We are a rapidly expanding creative startup at the forefront of a brand new industry, so working here offers real opportunities to shape an innovative technology and the way in which people use it.Because of this, we like working with imaginative people who think outside the box, and we love people who throw the whole box away and build something completely new. Our bright, open, centrally located offices are energetic environments bursting with collaborative ideas and boundless enthusiasm.Aside from being part of an exciting, driven, super-friendly team that will nurture your talents and help you grow, at Blippar you’ll find plenty more tangible benefits, including weekly free lunches, evening drinks, and Olive, the office dog.You’ll also be working intimately, from the start, with some of the world’s biggest brands - from Coca Cola and Nestle to Conde Nast, P&G and Jaguar.As a young, growing company spearheading the exciting augmented reality industry, the biggest perk of all is the creative control you’ll be afforded, whether you’re part of the design, tech, commercial or marketing teams. After all, we think our people are amazing, so we want them to stick around.
Description: As Creative Lead, you will have a responsibility for delivering on client accounts and projects, as the creative ‘linchpin’. You’ll be expected to lead and deliver fantastic digital design work yourself, and to represent our creative output toclients and prospects. You will also work closely with the Creative Director to help drive up the standard of design andcreative direction across the business.You will have a deep understanding of the digital environment, you will think strategically, be an inspiring and generousleader, and a creative person in every sense.FormResponsibilities:BrillianceYou will oversee multiple projects with an unrelenting creative ambition to make sure that our output is the best it canbe - never letting anything out of the door that isn’t right. You will be responsible for helping to realize the over-archingvision for our client’s digital products and services. You will help to cultivate brilliant and compelling ideas that areinspired and justifiable. You will have an inbuilt ability to assess creative concepts and clearly communicate creativedirection to others. You will challenge inappropriate ideas, solutions and strategies. You will be obsessive about pixel-perfection, brilliant interactivity and timely delivery. You will make others around you creatively better - by consciouslyteaching them, and by unconsciously inspiring them.Tell StoriesYou will tell engaging stories, about the work, about the process and about our company. You will be enthusiasticabout the transformative impact of Blippar, the possibilities it creates and curious about what others are doing with it.You will police and defend the quality of the work as it moves from concept to design and through to delivery. Youwill be able to guide the client towards the right solutions, by forming compelling, logical and informed argument;recognizing which battles to fight and which to flex on.You will work with project managers to time-plan and cost projects and sell or justify this to clients.Play niceYou will motivate and manage other team members - by getting involved. You will roll your sleeves up and get into thepixels, developing your own craft as well as guiding and teaching others.You will bring innovation to the ways that we work, and help to create an environment for creative thinking to flourish.You will collaborate widely with all departments and contribute to the creative process, leading and following in equalmeasure.The businessYou will regularly meet and present to clients, and you will be able to sell your creative vision compellingly andpersuasively.• Establish relationships via the Business Development and Account Management teams with key clients andprospects as a creative authority• Help ensure that clients and prospects know they are dealing with a highly creative organization wheneverthey engage us - that they feel the presence and impact of that creativity at every touch• Stay actively involved in clients goals and relationships, so you are in demand• Establish relationships via the Business Development and Account Management teams with key clients andprospects as a creative authority• Help ensure that clients and prospects know they are dealing with a highly creative organization wheneverthey engage us - that they feel the presence and impact of that creativity at every touch• Stay actively involved in clients goals and relationships, so you are in demand• Build relationships with the other disciplines and represent creativity - fight to keep creativity at the very core of• Balance creativity with commercialism - build your conscious appreciation and understanding of departmentalgross margin, utilization, project profit, etc. so you can work them to serve creativity- You will take direct line-management responsibility for a growing team• You will assist with recruitment and coach and mentor your direct reports• You will organize and run performance appraisals, and input into salary negotiations/reward managementwith the creative director. You will have experience of performance management, not shy away from difficultconversations and be able to deal with any discipline situations with grace
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