At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead creative direction and develop strategies for impactful campaigns across various platforms.
- Company: Dynamic digital marketing agency in Soho, London with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, private healthcare, flexible working, and generous holiday allowance.
- Other info: Opportunity to mentor talent and contribute to agency growth.
- Why this job: Shape the future of creative output and influence multiple brands in an ambitious agency.
- Qualifications: Seven years of creative experience and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Soho, London with three days WFH
Salary: £70,000 to £80,000
The Opportunity
Our client is an independent digital marketing agency that has grown quickly and is entering an important next phase of its evolution. With an expanding roster of consumer, retail, and lifestyle brands, they are now looking for a Head of Creative who can bring clarity, ambition, and leadership to their creative output. This is an opportunity to shape a creative function almost from the ground up. The agency has strong media, data, and strategy capability already in place. What they now need is someone who can champion creative thinking across the business, strengthen the quality of assets delivered to clients, and ensure that work not only performs commercially but reflects a clear creative point of view.
What You Will Lead
- Creative Direction and Standards
- Setting the creative vision for the agency and its clients
- Developing creative strategies and frameworks that connect brand thinking with measurable performance
- Providing senior sign off across all assets, from concept to final delivery
- Ensuring creative output is fit for platform and optimised for channels including Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Google, and YouTube
- Client Influence
- Acting as the senior creative partner for key accounts
- Presenting ideas, rationale, and insight confidently to senior stakeholders
- Translating business KPIs into clear creative direction
- Elevating client expectations around quality, testing, and experimentation
- Briefing and Delivery
- Leading the briefing process so that creative work is grounded, focused, and commercially relevant
- Collaborating closely with Paid Media and Account Directors to develop aligned and effective creative solutions
- Overseeing content production and ensuring consistent quality across formats
- Team Development
- Establishing an in-house creative function, initially supported by freelancers
- Mentoring creative talent and building confidence across the wider agency
- Introducing processes that scale effectively as the agency continues to grow
- Agency Growth
- Contributing to new business pitches and creative audits
- Helping shape the agency's future creative proposition
- Identifying opportunities to expand creative services within existing accounts
About You
- At least seven years’ creative experience across digital, content, and design
- Experience leading creative for performance driven campaigns
- Strong understanding of how creative impacts media effectiveness
- Confidence presenting to senior clients and guiding decision making
- Experience mentoring or managing creative talent
- A balance of conceptual thinking and hands‑on delivery
- Experience working across international markets, particularly the USA
- A degree in a relevant creative discipline is welcome but not essential
Benefits
- Pension
- Nine day fortnight
- Twenty‑five days holiday
- Private healthcare
- Three days WFH, two in the Soho office
- One flex week each year working from any global location
Interested?
If you are exploring your next step or simply intrigued by the chance to build and shape a modern creative function inside a growing agency, we encourage you to apply directly via this post. It is a rare opportunity to make a visible impact, influence the standard of creative work across multiple brands, and play a central role in an agency that is ambitious, collaborative, and ready for its next chapter.
Head of Creative in London employer: Salt Digital Recruitment
Join an independent digital marketing agency in the vibrant heart of Soho, London, where creativity meets ambition. With a strong focus on employee growth, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the creative function from the ground up while enjoying a flexible work environment that includes three days of remote work and a generous benefits package. This is not just a job; it's a chance to make a significant impact in a collaborative culture that values innovation and excellence.
