Creative Lead

Wild is looking for a Creative Lead to play a key role in shaping the visual identity and creative direction of their brand.

Overview:

• Full-time position
• Language: English
• Location: London, UK (Hybrid)
• Salary: not applicable
• Applications closing: until filled

Job Description

We’re looking for a Creative Lead to join our in-house creative team. We’re looking for someone who has cut their teeth with some brilliantly creative brands or agencies, with a strong background in idea generation, art direction and design.

As Creative Lead at Wild, you will play a key role in shaping the visual identity and creative direction of our brand. You’ll work closely with the wider brand and marketing team, performance team & product team. An attitude to push yourself to succeed in a multi faceted role within an often fast paced and highly creative environment is a must.

Responsibilities

Reporting into the Head of Creative, your main focuses will be:

• Creative ideation – you’ll translate briefs into effective creative ideas, inspiring the team with innovative ideas for paid social, CRM, campaign aesthetics and brand awareness projects which deliver a bold and impactful message
• Innovative and on brand design work across a plethora of platforms; paid/organic social, CRM, OOH, offline retail media
• Manage, lead and inspire the design team across digital and print collateral
• Art direction across brand, design and photography to ensure our content lives up to our bold and engaging aesthetic
• Development of our retail and DTC packaging to ensure our customer experience is consistent with our bold aesthetic, whilst informative enough to communicate our products
• Design for our physical products, analysing current trends and outputting them into product case designs
• Creative strategy – alongside our Head of Creative you’ll bring a data lead approach to new product and new market growth

Benefits:

• 25 days holidays + bank holidays + 9 extra remote working days
• Hybrid working, 3 days a week in our shiny new London office
• 4% Company Pension
• Mental wellbeing support through Spill
• Private healthcare through Vitality
• Weekly early finishes and social events
• Annual L&D budget
• Free breakfast
• Free & discounted Wild products
• 2 x team volunteering days and 2 x personal volunteering days

Role Requirements

Please note that we welcome applications from candidates who may not hit every single bullet point on the lists below – if you’re passionate about our mission and feel you have relevant skills and experiences to add value to this role, please submit an application!

• 7+ years of experience within a creative team
• A strong ability to translate briefs into effective, bold, creative ideas
• Thorough experience with design for a range of channels and formats including packaging, CRM, paid/organic social, print media, OOH
• Thorough experience within art direction
• Experience in managing and mentoring, to develop the careers of our design team
• A proactive, collaborative, can-do attitude with a strong and determined work ethic
• Expertise within the Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, plus ideally Figma
• Rock solid organisational skills to ensure the teams briefs are hit on time, within an often face paced and reactive environment
• A guardian of the tiniest of details

How to apply?

To apply for this role, please fill in the application form.

At Wild, we know that diversity drives innovation and creativity. We are committed to creating and maintaining a workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to bring their most authentic selves to work. We recognise that diversity goes beyond visible differences such as race, gender, age, and ethnicity, and encompasses a broad spectrum of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. Individuals from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply!