Senior Creative- Agency in Belfast

Location: Belfast

Contract: Full-time | Permanent

Salary: Competitive

Are you a highly creative designer looking to make a real impact within a fast-paced, integrated agency environment? We're partnering with an award-winning creative full service agency that is looking to appoint a Senior Creative / Designer to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of its creative offering. This is far more than a traditional design role; it's an opportunity to influence creative direction, elevate studio standards and help deliver outstanding integrated campaigns across a diverse client portfolio.

Working alongside talented teams across strategy, digital, PR, media and events, you'll help develop bold creative concepts that deliver real commercial results while mentoring junior creatives and helping to shape the agency's creative future.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Creative / Designer, you'll take ownership of projects from initial brief through to final delivery, producing high-quality creative work across advertising, branding, digital, social media, events, PR and integrated marketing campaigns. This is a strategic appointment designed to strengthen senior creative capability, enhance creative thinking across the business and support continued growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead integrated creative projects from concept through to artwork, production and final delivery.
• Develop compelling creative concepts and campaign ideas that solve client challenges.
• Produce exceptional creative work across branding, digital, print, social media, presentations, outdoor advertising, events and campaign assets.
• Partner with strategy, digital, PR, media and client services teams to develop innovative integrated campaigns.
• Help establish and maintain high creative standards and efficient studio processes.
• Contribute to pitches, proposals and client presentations with strong visual storytelling and creative direction.
• Mentor and support junior designers, helping develop their skills and confidence.
• Keep abreast of emerging creative, cultural, digital and advertising trends, bringing fresh thinking into the studio.

About You

You'll have a proven track record of delivering high-quality creative work within an agency or similarly fast-paced marketing environment, backed by a strong and varied portfolio. You'll also bring:

• Extensive experience creating integrated campaigns across brand, digital, social, print and presentation design.
• Exceptional design skills across typography, layout, branding, art direction and visual identity.
• Experience managing multiple projects, stakeholders and deadlines simultaneously.
• The ability to move seamlessly between creative strategy and hands-on design execution.
• Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience with Figma, motion design, digital design, AI-powered creative tools or content creation would be highly advantageous.

Desirable Experience

• Integrated campaign work spanning PR, events and experiential marketing.
• Strong art direction skills across photography, illustration, motion and content creation.
• Experience developing creative routes, mood boards, visual concepts and presentation decks for pitches.
• Knowledge of UX/UI, motion graphics, video production and AI-supported creative tools.
• Previous mentoring or coaching experience within a creative team.

Personal Attributes

• We're looking for someone who is passionate about producing creative work that is both visually outstanding and commercially effective.
• Able to think strategically while remaining hands-on with design and production.
• Proactive, solutions-focused and always looking for ways to improve creative output.
• Curious, adaptable and committed to continuous learning.
• Comfortable working within a collaborative, ambitious agency environment.
• A confident team player with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Company pension
• Life insurance
• Minimum of 24 hours of CPD training each year
• The opportunity to work on exciting integrated campaigns for a diverse client portfolio
• A collaborative, creative environment where your ideas and expertise will make a genuine impact

If you're a passionate senior creative looking to shape exceptional campaigns, influence creative direction and join an ambitious, growing agency, we'd love to hear from you.