Senior Creaive Designer & Art Director

Wellcom London is looking for a senior creative leader with a strong design foundation to help shape, lead and elevate creative work across the agency. You’ll be a trusted creative voice, leading key briefs, influencing client relationships and setting the standard across multidisciplinary teams.

Based in Clerkenwell with our creative team, you’ll report directly to our Head of Creative and work closely with our Head of Production. You’ll lead work from concept through to execution, partnering with our world-class production talent and multidisciplinary teams to deliver distinctive, beautifully crafted work across a diverse client portfolio.

We’re craft-first and passionate about delivering exceptional work across a wide range of mediums and channels. You’ll love creating bespoke projects and campaigns and will be equally comfortable owning and steering the creative from pitch through to execution or collaborating with agency creative teams. It’s varied, fast-paced and ideal for someone who thrives on solving different kinds of creative challenges.

You’ll be endlessly curious, resourceful and energised by finding better ways to do things. You’ll embrace AI, emerging technology and new tools, exploring how they can strengthen ideas, improve the creative process and push the work forward.

The ideal candidate will be a proactive and collaborative creative leader with a strong design background and an instinctive understanding of how words and visuals work together. You’ll bring strong creative judgement, remain calm under pressure and continually push for better. You’ll be equally comfortable leading from the front or collaborating as part of a wider team, moving seamlessly between concept, art direction and execution.

What will you be doing?

• Support the Head of Creative with Leading and directing project teams across design, CGI, copywriting and digital production, setting the creative standard from brief to through to delivery.
• Take ownership of elevating creative quality across teams, ensuring the work is consistently distinctive, strategically sound and beautifully crafted.
• Develop compelling creative concepts for campaigns where needed that align with the client objectives and brand guidelines
• Shape and co-lead creative strategy across key briefs, ensuring ideas are relevant and executable
• Lead and contribute to pitches and new business opportunities, shaping creative responses, presenting ideas and building confidence with clients.
• Guide clients with clarity and honesty, balancing their needs with strong creative thinking.
• Remain hands-on across the creative process, from scamping an idea and concept development through to toolkits and final delivery
• Set and uphold the creative bar across disciplines, providing decisive direction , clear feedback and effective mentorship to designers, copywriters, CGI artists, developers and AFX artists to craft and maintain a high level of creative output.
• Have a thorough understanding of the digital advertising space and champion digital-first creative thinking across DOOH and emerging formats, ensuring concepts are built for the channel rather than adapted into it.
• Oversee creative development across print, video, web and multimedia, maintaining quality and consistency throughout.
• Be collaborative, strategising with internal team members to anticipate challenges, assess solutions, identify alternatives and make recommendations.
• Act as a senior creative partner to clients, enhancing briefs constructively and identifying opportunities to strengthen the work, and deepen the relationship.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices, apply these proactively to our ways of working and processes
  

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience leading complex, multi-channel creative work from concept through to delivery / Extensive experience in creative leadership, preferably within a creative design or digital creative environment
• Experience directing multidisciplinary creative teams and influencing senior stakeholders
• Confidence operating as a senior client-facing creative partner
• Strong creative judgement and the ability to make high-level decisions independently
• Experience mentoring and developing creative talent
• Commercial awareness tbc,
• Confident presenting and defending creative thinking with clarity, while remaining open to collaboration
• A great communicator who can translate creative ideas for non-creative or technical audiences.
• An Adobe Creative Suite and Figma pro
• Good understanding motion design, video editing, and best practices held within those disciplines.
• Passion for innovation and a keen eye for detail
• Open, thoughtful, and confident enough to be flexible which in turn means you are kind, collaborative, and ego-free because when ideas can flow free, the work is stronger.
• Most importantly, you're empathetic. It’s a skill that helps you manage up, manage down, and works to make sure both your clients and your team are feeling really genuinely positive about working with wellcom.
  

Our Benefits

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working
• Your birthday off
• Christmas closure
• Death in service (4x your salary)
• Employee assistance programme
• Enhanced maternity or paternity leave
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle-to work scheme
• Mental health support
• Dog friendly support