Senior Creative / Creative Lead

🎨 Build the Work. Lead the People. Shape the Creative Function.

You've built your creative craft.

Now you're ready for bigger ownership — ideas, people, systems and delivery.

A growing marketing and creative agency is searching for a Senior Creative / Creative

Lead to help lead its next stage of growth.

This isn't simply about producing great work yourself.

It's about making the whole creative function stronger because you're leading it.

We're looking for someone who can:

Set the direction → Delegate → Raise the standard → Build better systems → Deliver.

What You'll Own

💡 Creative Direction

• Turn strategy and business objectives into strong creative direction
• Develop and challenge campaign concepts and visual ideas
• Review design, content, video and campaign creative
• Maintain strong standards across multiple brands
• Present and articulate creative thinking clearly

Great design isn't decoration. It's communication.

👥 People & Leadership

• Delegate based on capability, workload and priority
• Give creatives clear briefs, direction and deadlines
• Review work without becoming the bottleneck
• Coach junior and mid-level creatives towards greater independence
• Identify capability gaps and help raise the team's overall standard

Your success isn't measured only by your own work, but by how good the work becomes around you.

⚙️ Systems & Workflow

Help build a creative operation that doesn't depend on firefighting:

Brief → Resource → Concept → Review → Revision → Approval → Delivery

You'll improve:

• Briefing and creative workflows
• Resource and workload planning
• Review and quality-control processes
• Production planning and deadlines
• Asset and version management
• Templates, SOPs and reusable frameworks
• AI-assisted creative workflows

We want someone who asks:

"Why does this problem keep happening and how do we prevent it?"

⚡ Delivery

Agency work moves quickly.

You'll need to know:

What needs perfection. What needs excellence. What needs experimentation. What simply needs to ship.

You'll identify risks early, reallocate resources when necessary and protect both creative quality and deadlines.

Because great creative delivered too late is still a missed opportunity.

Modern Creative: Hi-Fi × Lo-Fi

You should understand both:

Hi-Fi: Branding • Campaigns • Art Direction • Professional Production • Polished Execution

Lo-Fi: Social Content • Short-Form Video • Performance Creative • Fast Production • Rapid Experimentation

You don't need to personally be the strongest specialist in every discipline.

But you need the judgement to direct and improve the people who are.

Who We're Looking For

Ideally, you have 4–7+ years of relevant creative experience with increasing leadership responsibility.

You should bring:

✓ Strong creative and visual judgement
✓ Conceptual and campaign thinking
✓ Strong typography, hierarchy and visual storytelling fundamentals
✓ Experience reviewing and directing other creatives
✓ Strong delegation and resource planning
✓ Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
✓ Experience improving workflows, SOPs or creative processes
✓ Understanding of social-first and performance creative
✓ Confidence presenting and defending creative decisions
✓ High ownership without needing to control everything
✓ Curiosity towards AI and emerging creative workflows

You may currently be a:

Senior Creative • Senior Designer • Art Director • Creative Lead • Associate Creative Director • Senior Brand Designer. Your title matters less than the level at which you can operate.

What's In It For You?

🎨 Shape The Work
Move beyond execution and own creative direction and standards.

👥 Build Your Leadership Track Record
Lead people, delegate effectively and develop a stronger creative team.

⚙️ Build The System
Have a real voice in how a growing creative function operates and scales.

🏆 Build Stronger Career Capital
Work across different brands, campaigns, platforms and creative challenges.

📈 Build Your Next Leadership Chapter
Grow beyond Senior Creative towards broader Creative Leadership.

Above All...

We don't want a Creative Lead who becomes the system.

We want someone who can build a system where great work gets produced consistently — without everything depending on one person.

Make the work better. Make the people better. Make the system better.

How To Apply

Company and team details will be shared with shortlisted candidates.

Please submit:

1. Resume
2. Portfolio / Relevant Creative Work
3. Current & Expected Salary
4. Earliest Available Start Date

And briefly answer:

You've inherited a busy creative team where deadlines are slipping and senior creatives are overloaded.

What would you diagnose first, what would you change, and what would you delegate?

We want to see your creative work.

But we also want to understand how you lead it.