Creative Director (Copywriter)

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. Identify, understand, and overcome commercial and internal challenges to inspire and deliver effective solutions that consider the holistic needs of the brand.
• Contribute to the strategic development of a well-defined creative brief and any additional briefing documents, speaking with clients directly where necessary.
• Contribute thought leadership and team leadership to the conversation of the Writing practice. This is particularly important in this time of AI writing. Have a POV on the place and importance of human crafted writing and its value to clients.
• Lead by example to help build an inspiring, fun, and high performing creative culture.
• 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.
• Inspire clients with opportunities, growing partnerships organically through both ideas and successes.

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/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 (visual and written) experience.
• 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.

Preferred

• POV on the place and importance of human crafted writing and its value to clients.
• Experience 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.
• Experience in, and enthusiasm for, creating digital platforms and products from brief to delivery and beyond.

Benefits

• AKQA is committed to developing wellbeing and supporting our team's life choices. We provide an extensive range of benefits.
• We believe great work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. We've adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.