Art Director

Our new Art Director has it all…

Those striking visual concepts behind campaigns that win hearts and minds. The integrated marketing expertise to adapt their art to Reddit or TikTok, as comfortably as storyboarding film or masterminding outlandish out-of-home experiences. A passion for their craft that means being as fastidious when kerning copy as they are directing on big shoots.

If this sounds like you, we’re prepared to give you the creative freedom and partners to deliver work you are truly proud of. You’ll collaborate with a team of writers, designers, filmmakers, editors and developers, who love the work and crave award wins as much as you do. Because that’s what it takes to be a creative at Blackbridge.

We’re classically inspired and digitally relevant

Your inspirations should be diverse – from classical art to the latest technologies – and you know how to tune a great idea to work in digital and analogue spaces. Your hunger for new and exciting should be relentless when looking for styles, trends, artists and collaborators to work with. You will ignite that fire in your colleagues as you brainstorm concepts, because you know there are a million exciting ideas to have, and with thought and craft some of them could be amazing.

Of course, there are times when our clients, as ambitious as they are, will crush your soul along with your big idea. Sometimes the budgets or timings will be a challenge. It happens everywhere. But dust yourself down, because tomorrow the right brief will come along, and when it does, we know how to back it with all our creative might. As we continue to outdo ourselves, over and over again.

Why Blackbridge?

With countless industry awards to our name, we really are pushing the boundaries of employer branding – a constantly growing and currently booming area of marketing. What we do is every bit as creative and innovative as consumer advertising, but with an added sense of self-worth. Because we aren’t selling sodas; we’re helping people find and build their futures with world-renowned brands like Amazon, Rolls Royce and the NHS.

Even better, this is what it feels like to be a holistic creative. Building brands from scratch and managing campaigns from end to end. You can’t be content working on one, and only one, client. But you’ll love working here. Nice people usually do. We’re close-knit and know how to enjoy ourselves in and around the creative hub that is Spitalfields, London. And whilst all the perks here are pretty sweet, the most important thing to know is that we’re an employee-owned agency – so you’ll earn a share of our profits after 12-month’s service.

Please include a link to, or PDF of, your folio with your application.

Requirements

• Conceptual mind that that thinks in holistic creative terms, not just pictures
• Experience in originating multi-channel marketing campaigns within a creative agency environment
• Digital and social-first approach to concepts
• Visual flair to produce considered and exciting visual identities
• Hands-on craft to produce client-ready visuals and production-ready designs and assets
• Strong skills in Adobe CC
• Passion for producing award-winning creative
• Experience conceptualising and directing film and motion work

Benefits

• The chance to become a co-owner of Blackbridge after 12 months
• 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)
• Hybrid working (3 days in the office per week)
• An extra 1.5 days of leave over the Christmas period
• Enhanced parental leave
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured
• Birthday gift voucher and long-service awards
• Quarterly massages in the office
• Regular speaker events and workshops