Senior Creative Director (Mat Leave)

PrettyGreen is seeking a Senior Creative Director (Mat Leave) from November 2025 to join our award-winning team.

We’re a global fame-making agency on a mission to deliver creative communications that positively impact people, planet and performance. We believe that in an ever-changing world, fame and fortune favour the brave – and we’re looking for someone brave enough to help us create it.

For 17 years (since Red Bull gave us Wings), we’ve built fame-worthy ideas that shape culture, solve real problems and spark conversations – everywhere from the front page to For You pages. Whether it’s bold PR, game-changing influencer work, culturally sharp social content or unmissable brand experiences, we get people sharing and keep people talking.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a strategically sharp and creatively fearless Senior Creative Director to join our central Studio team on a maternity cover basis. The Studio sits at the heart of our agency, made up of planners and creatives who power bold, culturally relevant work across our three divisions – PR, Influencer, and Experiential – as well as leading creative direction on new business and agency marketing.

This is a key creative leadership role, responsible for developing and directing standout creative that earns attention in the real world and online. You’ll partner closely with planning and client teams to ensure our ideas are insight-driven, creatively brave, and delivered to the highest standard.

Ideally, you’ll bring 5+ years’ experience in a similar role, with a track record of developing work for well-known consumer brands . Experience in earned-first campaigns is a must.

SENIOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR job description:

You are the Senior Creative Director for your clients and in new business pitches, are responsible for senior counsel creative direction for your clients and the agency.

Day to day responsibilities include:

Creative Strategy

• Working in partnership with the planning team to translate a comms strategy into a creative strategy and filter

Creative Concepting

• Directing the creative team to develop / filter creative concepts answering client briefs in line with client’s brand guidelines / objectives
• Culturally in tune. You know exactly what is going on in the world and where your concepts can jump on these cultural trends and zeitgeist moments

Selling Creativity

• Strong presentation writing and direction (New Business & Clients)
• Strong and confident presentation skills – pitching ideas to clients – existing and prospective
• Strong creative briefing skills for creative partners designers, producers, artworkers etc
• Be a creative thought leader for the agency, through profiling, awards judging, commentary etc.

Client Servicing & Campaign delivery

• Client servicing and management around creative delivery / senior creative counsel
• Creative adherence to the A is for All Framework
• Advise on external creative suppliers

Agency Brand & Innovation

• Work with the Brand Director to ensure creative consistency on agency Less Ordinary positioning creative output

Team & Time Management

• Confident managing internal creative delivery teams from conception to completion, giving clear direction & accountabilities
• Understand the commercials and plan your / team time accordingly for profitable delivery – hours / fees / overservicing

WHO WE ARE:

We live by five values that we take incredibly seriously

• WE ARE BOLD
• EVERYONE IS CREATIVE
• TRUSTED TO DELIVER
• WE ARE ALLIES
• LIFE IS SHORT

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION & BELONGING COMMITMENT:

At PrettyGreen we support, celebrate and thrive because of our differences and are proud to be:

• A leading DE&I employer as judged by PR Week in the PR Week Pay Gap Survey
• Investing 3%+ of our net profit back into industry DE&I initiatives.
• Sign up to the Halo Code to end school & workplace hair inequality by protecting and celebrating black hairstyles.
• Founding Partner of the Brixton Finishing School, now in its seventh year.
• People Like Us active founding supporter & sponsor.
• Recognised as a top 10 Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2024
• DE&I PrettyGreen Board to guide and support us in our journey.
• Sunday Times Best Places To Work Award

Our company value ‘We Are Allies’ benefits our employees, our clients and the work we produce, and we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. In all our company policies and throughout our recruitment we hope to create a company that creates fairness and celebrates uniqueness. The Company is committed to equal opportunities in its employment practices, including vacancy advertising, recruitment, training and promotion, terms and conditions of employment and reasons for termination.

When hiring we do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, nationality or any other characteristic covered by the law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. The principles of non-discrimination and equality of opportunity also apply to the way in which staff treat visitors, clients, customers, suppliers and former members of the Company.

ESG COMMITMENT Proud to Be B-Corp

• We’re celebrating the ultimate recognition of our commitment to balance creativity for good with commercial performance.
• Since 2008, we’ve realised our mission to deliver creative communications that positively impact people, planet and performance.
• PrettyGreen Group is 100% carbon neutral across all central business operations and we measure our carbon footprint. We use the TRACE events platform to track, avoid & offset carbon in all production.