Creative Developer in Southampton

Lateral is a yacht naval architecture and engineering studio operating at the intersection of engineering, design and innovation. We work with designers, shipyards and owners to develop some of the world’s most advanced and distinctive yachts. Our work is technical, creative and highly collaborative. Our purpose lies in the development and application of knowledge. Alongside the delivery of today’s projects, we generate insight through innovation to inspire future yacht owners to invest in ambitious ideas. Much of what we do is complex and often unseen. It demands not only technical depth, but the deliberate application of creative intent to make that depth understood and compelling.

To support our culture we foster a high-quality and inspiring working environment at our base in Shamrock Quay, Southampton. The physical space serves to elevate our thinking and our output.

Role Overview

This role is for someone who is excited by creative challenge in any form, whether expressed through ideas, words, numbers, images or systems. We are looking for someone who brings momentum, not someone who waits to be pushed. This role is not aligned to a single department. It sits across Marketing, Business Development, Innovation and project activity, creating part of the visual, written and data-driven material that enables those functions to express their work clearly and compellingly. Your output will be diverse.

• One day you might be creating content for social media or developing a 3D model and rendering to communicate a technical idea.
• Another day you might be shaping diagrams, illustrations or structured data to support a proposal.
• You may find yourself embedded in an innovation team, helping to frame and pitch a new concept to a client, then building the narrative and materials to bring that idea to life.
• You might develop presentations, editorial pieces, video content, or experiment with AI agents and code to enhance and accelerate your output or to simply a data based task you are working on.
• You may support the brand’s presence at a yacht show or industry event, rethink part of a company presentation, elevate internal materials, or contribute creatively to the atmosphere of the office itself.
• We even make things out of Lego and have a 3D printer turning 2D ideas into physical form.

In short, you will be an engine of creative execution. Someone who turns intent into artefact.

Who You Are

This role is defined by mindset, not a checklist of hard skills or software experience. The most important capability in this role is the ability to work with people. You will listen more than you talk. You will understand nuance, show empathy, and be able to navigate different personalities and disciplines within a multi national, multi disciplinary team of highly capable individuals. You will know when to ask questions and when to act. In this role, human skills are not soft skills, they are core capability. We recognise that these skills in all of us are imperfect and emergent. You will have the self awareness to reflect on how you operate and see your development as a continuous lifetime activity. We will support you and help you grow.

You will need resourcefulness. If you have read this description and feel intimidated by the breadth of what is described, this job may not be for you. If instead you see a list of things you could learn, and you instinctively know how to go and find the knowledge to acquire those capabilities quickly and intelligently, then you are already demonstrating the mindset we are looking for. You will not wait to be sent on a training course. You will use the tools available to you, including AI, digital platforms and experimentation, to build skill in a rapid and agile manner. You will not allow gaps in knowledge to become barriers to creative intent.

You will need creativity. Not as decoration, but as a way of thinking. You know how to make the technical compelling. You will experiment. You will be comfortable with ambiguity and capable of shaping something coherent from it.

You will need tenacity. We aspire to be excellent, and excellence is often built on unglamorous detail (aka the mundane stuff). Some of our work is inspiring and visible. Some of it is repetitive, technical and unseen. Both matter. If you cannot tolerate the discipline of getting the detail right, this role will frustrate you.

Finally, you will be the kind of person who picks up the rubbish from the floor even if you were not the one who dropped it.

Your Future

Lateral is a company that continually evolves. We do not stand still. We grow with ambition, but at a measured and considered pace. For us, growth is not about size. It is about knowledge, capability and depth. Your future here will not be handed to you in a predefined path. It will be shaped as much by your own drive and contribution as by any formal structure we put around you. Over time, this role is expected to evolve into a broader team focused on the delivery of creative content across the business. This position carries the opportunity to help define the standard from the outset and to grow at the forefront of that development.