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Creative Director – Brand

1 year ago

Creative Assembly is looking for a Creative Director to join our Brand team based at our studio in Horsham, in the heart of West Sussex.

In this new role, the successful candidate will be responsible for leading creative services and direction in support of all franchise title marketing campaigns.

Flexible working at Creative Assembly includes hybrid, fully remote within country of employment for eligible roles, and in-studio. We recognise that there is no one-size-fits-all approach and empower our teams to define the working patterns which work best for them, which may mean different things for different teams and roles and at different times.

This role can be hybrid or in-studio. This role cannot offer fully remote working. Further details can be discussed during the recruitment process.

Key Responsibilities

Passionate and driven about the audio-visual design space, you will lead a number of creative teams in providing brand design, support and asset origination for brand and marketing campaigns across the Creative Assembly portfolio.

Responsible for the creative marketing output of a new internal service and consultancy group within the wider Brand team, your leadership, management, and keen design eye will support dedicated title Brand Managers and marketing teams on each of our franchise titles.

We’re looking for an experienced creative lead, with both team management and consultation skills. Able to be at home mentoring an extended team of highly creative professionals and providing fresh and innovative thinking around design executions across a variety of assets and media.

Ensuring consistent, high-quality standards, driving best practice, and pushing our campaigns and design elements into new spaces, you’ll likely have a long personal history of being deeply involved in the creative process and have a proven track record of building and managing talented teams and relationships.

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

Collaborate with Brand Managers and Directors to help define the brand design and creative asset elements that go into connect our games with our players
Work across a variety of teams producing a variety of asset types – from graphic and brand design to advertising campaigns, trailers, video and live stream execution
Manage and grow your creative teams; understand their skillsets, develop personal plans and training opportunities, and mentor and coach your senior staff
Plan resourcing to budget and time, meet the demands of a busy roadmap and know when to say no and how to say yes
Foster productive and essential relationships across the brand marketing and game art teams to leverage the look and feel of our titles and create distinction
Understand and champion the target audience of your teams’ output; be the voice of the player and the brand strategy in our design executions
Devise and support key processes and practices; seek efficiencies, opportunities for your teams to shine and areas to innovate.

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

Essential

First hand commercial design experience, preferably in an entertainment or FMCG sector
Experience and skillset in conceptualising and ideation, ability to convert strategic messages into effective communication campaigns across a variety of media
Team leadership of multi-disciplinary teams; directing and managing creative staff
Clear understanding of modern design processes and requirements across multi-channel marketing campaigns
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across disciplines, with product, technical, marketing, and commercial stakeholders
Proactive and process-driven approach to working with stakeholders to identify requirements and support execution
Ability to prioritise and deliver to deadline, motivate teams and individuals and put people and their experiences first.

Desirable

Experience working with agency or other multi-disciplinary creative service environment
Advertising, promotional acumen and demonstrable experience of collaborative working across multiple stakeholders
Experience working in or alongside a video game publishing organisation and an understanding of platform-holder and typical third-party relationships
Keen gamer and voracious devourer of cross-cultural influences of all sorts
Project management experience or qualifications.

About Creative Assembly

It’s an exciting time to be a part of our craft-led studio as we push boundaries, creating deep and detailed experiences that last.

Our teams are diverse from across the world, from trainees to industry veterans who constantly challenge us and make sure we are striving for the best within our games and our studio life. We are united through our shared values of Quality, Focus, Teamwork, Respect and Trust and we win awards for our culture and our people-centric approach, having won a Best Place to Work Award for six consecutive years. We invest in our people, the studio, and our projects. We are a company that’s secure and safe – you don’t need to worry about job security at CA.

We’ll give you the creative freedom, tools, support, and development to achieve your potential.

Our studios are based in Horsham, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria, including several bespoke state-of-the-art audio suites and a dedicated motion capture facility.

We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:

Flexible working: hybrid, fully remote within country of employment for eligible roles, and in-studio working
Work from Anywhere for a temporary period each year (restrictions apply such as VISAs)
Enhanced holiday allowance, maternity and paternity breaks, flexibility with our core hours, and no-notice holidays
Bespoke relocation package for you and your dependents, with support throughout the process from our dedicated Relocation Specialists
Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening
Generous holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, and all UK Bank holidays
Annual discretionary studio bonus
Join our award-winning education and social responsibility programme; the Legacy Project, as an industry ambassador to mentor and educate others
Defined career development pathways and personalised training support including SEGA Dev Day, internal masterclasses, prestigious creative workshops, on-site training with renowned specialists and global conference attendance
Opportunity to join our Diversity and Inclusion Network – an employee-led group
Season ticket travel loans and cycle to work scheme with free bike servicing and discounted car valet service on site
Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
Free breakfast in the studio every day - toast, bagels, pancakes, cereals, yoghurts, fresh fruit, smoothies, juices, milkshakes and more in our fully stocked kitchen
Wellbeing support with an employee assistance programme and onsite confidential sessions
In-studio heavily subsidised massage therapy
Discounts for home technology, travel insurance, corporate gym membership, cinema tickets, holidays, trips out and Ikea vouchers, and many local businesses including estate agents
Studio parties for you and your family; such as our Summer Festival, Christmas Party plus a separate Children’s Christmas Party. We also have Cinema days and wrap parties for game releases
Studio community activities such as life drawing, creative writing, Pilates, Walking Challenges, Couch to 5k, basketball, game and movie evenings, board game club, 5-a-side football, CA Choir, Sword fighting (yes, sword fighting) and loads more.

Our studio sites have disabled access. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Create Your Profile — Game companies can contact you with their relevant job openings.

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