London, UK
Mid-weight creative strategist
at Universal Design Studio
Universal Design Studio and Map Project Office are hiring a mid-weight creative strategist to join their team in Farringdon, London.
We’re looking for an experienced mid-weight creative strategist to join our growing vision and strategy team. As a mid-weight creative strategist, you are an integral, client-facing member of both Universal Design Studio and Map Project Office. You enjoy working across brand, experience, space and product, clearly communicating your thought processes and helping to shape the visual direction of the project alongside designers, project leads, design directors and creative directors across both studios.
You are someone who enjoys interrogating cultural shifts, discovering exciting insights, seeking fresh inspiration and evolving unique visual direction. Building and visually narrating the initial creative process, you develop inspiring creative direction with evocative storytelling and compelling delivery.
You approach each project independently, with confidence, exploring and developing ideas iteratively and clearly communicating your thought process to the team and client.
You prepare and take ownership of presentations and are confident in presenting work directly to clients. You actively contribute to internal project team meetings, kick-offs, wash-ups and design reviews as relevant, reporting to project leads and creative directors.
Open-minded and inquisitive, you engage passionately with every aspect of studio life, influencing studio culture, motivating others and guiding junior vision and strategy team members to develop their creative and leadership capabilities, whilst sharing your skills and experience with the wider studio teams. When necessary, you participate in education outreach.
Key responsibilities:
- understand moves in contemporary culture and identify the key challenges these pose
- define unique positioning for brands navigating a constantly shifting landscape; excite and challenge them
- creatively problem solve with a future-focussed approach
- define brand, experience and design strategy for brands
- develop creative worlds and bring them to life through inspiring storytelling
- communicate concepts, both physically and digitally
- collaborate with and support the design teams to realise the vision through concept and design development
- help run collaborative workshops and hold interviews with stakeholders and consumers
Skills, behaviours and attributes:
- the ability to work independently and as part of a team
- a desire to work collaboratively across both studios and design teams
- experience working within creative teams
- a positive and proactive attitude
- to clearly and concisely communicate your thought processes
- to excel in creative storytelling
- a willingness to learn and be open to feedback
- the ability to inspire and motivate those around you
Benefits and other information
Competitive salary and attractive benefits package offered for employees, including Bupa healthcare, generous holiday allowance, flexible start/finish times, enhanced pension contribution, access to Bupa dental plan, Babylon Dr app, Lifeworks well-being platform, retail discounts, CycleScheme, train season ticket loan, short term employment breaks, generous enhanced parental leave policies, emergency time off for dependents, recruitment referral bonus, regular learning events and socials, quarterly studio wide creativity day, time to attend industry events, free breakfast.
Hybrid working employees have the flexibility to work a mix of in the studio and at home, working a minimum of 3 days in the studio and up to 2 days from home. Wednesday and Monday are anchor days, where everyone comes into the studio. Additionally, the option to request to work remotely for up to 2 weeks per year.
Application process: We want you to have every opportunity to shine and show us your talents – please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the assessment process works for you.
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