Freelance Creative Director in London

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board. MyEdSpace is an education technology platform that connects the best teachers on the planet with the students who need them the most - wherever they are, whatever their means. Backed by $15m in Series A funding from some of the leading investors in the space, we’re ready to scale - and we want you to lead the charge with us! We’re on a mission to make a world-class education accessible to all. We believe that every child deserves access to quality education, regardless of geography or socioeconomic background, to achieve their dreams and build a brighter future.

This role is about providing senior creative leadership to help MyEdSpace significantly raise the quality, consistency, and commercial impact of its video and design output. You’ll act as a fractional or freelance Creative Director, supporting the in-house creative team by bringing sharper creative judgement, stronger art direction, and clearer strategic thinking. While the team already delivers a high volume of assets that perform, there is opportunity to improve creative quality, diversity of concepts, and production standards. Your focus will be on guiding, coaching the team, and improving the existing operations. This includes helping translate performance insights into stronger creative ideas, setting guidelines for what 'good' looks like, and creating the structure and confidence needed to move beyond BAU output. Helping deliver better creative that drives stronger conversion and paid media performance.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior creative lead for the video and design team, supporting the creative manager with guidance, direction and decision-making.
• Review and benchmark creative output, quality, and team capability to identify improvement areas.
• Raise creative standards across concepts, art direction, and video production.
• Introduce clearer structure around creative testing, development, and experimentation.
• Create practical best-practice guidance to improve consistency and quality over time.
• Coach and mentor the creative manager and team with clear progression milestones.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in a senior creative or creative leadership role.
• Proven experience working with performance marketing teams in a D2C environment.
• Experience overseeing high-volume video and design output.
• Strong commercial judgement and understanding of creative performance.
• Confident advisor and coach, able to guide and mentor teams.

Our values

• PUT INTEGRITY FIRST: Honesty matters. Tell the truth, and be straight-up. Be transparent and do the right thing. This builds respect and reliability for our students, families and team members.
• KNOW YOUR COORDINATES: Understand where you are and where you want to get to. Know your strengths and acknowledge your gaps. Think from first principles. Question things, and never pretend to know what you don’t.
• RAISE THE BAR: Own it and get it done. Do better. Iterate quickly and seek feedback. Deliver real value. Be excellent and lift others up. Share learnings and help your teammates improve.
• LOVE TO BE WRONG: Push boundaries. Be outside your comfort zone. Naturally you’ll get some things wrong and that’s okay. Embrace feedback. Learn from it and get closer to excellence.
• WIN TOGETHER: To achieve our mission, we have to work together. We all have a role to play, so help each other get there. We’re stronger as a team so inspire, support and respect each other.

Why you’ll love working here

We’re a team on a mission to transform education for the better. Joining MES means you’ll be part of something ambitious, fast-moving, and full of purpose. Here’s what you can expect:

• The chance to make a real impact: your work directly shapes the future of education.
• A fast-paced and high-growth environment where ideas move quickly and careers accelerate.
• A collaborative, supportive culture: we’re headquartered in the UK, but we’re a global team with colleagues in 15+ countries, bringing a rich mix of perspectives and energy.