Senior Creative

As a Senior Creative you are experienced in your craft with great imagination and leadership qualities. Storytelling and good design skills are essential components of creating beautiful and engaging work.

Working alongside the Project Director, interpreting and translating briefs into creative visions that fulfill our internal creative ambitions, meeting our clients’ objectives and inspiring audiences.

Main Responsibilities

• Distill project information into a narrative to successfully tell the story across simpler deliverables.
• Create narrative structures for clients to sign off.
• Champion understanding of the production process across multidisciplinary projects.
• Concept and Direction for mid level and larger scale standalone projects.
• Play an active role with the Creative Director and Project Director with larger scale projects.
• Be an active participant with client presentations taking the lead from senior creatives.
• Manage and mentor team members on projects, always ensuring to lead by example.
• Present concepts to clients.
• Alongside the producer manage client expectations and successfully negotiate client demands.
• Understanding the commercial aspect of each project in relation to ensuring creative decisions are taken on time and within budget.

Character Traits

• Demonstrates intellectual and creative rigour, with a passion to develop in the role.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly to clients
• Flexible can-do attitude. Adapts well to changing priorities.
• Ability to have a positive impact on others and communicate openly and directly to individuals or groups at all levels.
• Sets standards of behaviour and acts as a leader and role model.
• Takes decisions which have a substantial impact on the achievement of production and quality objectives.
• In depth knowledge of technical and creative aspects of the work and ability to reconcile these
• Ability to understand conflicting viewpoints and resolve issues.
• Ability to manage time effectively.
• Confident and decisive, a problem solver.
• Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively.
• Strong attention to detail, high quality standards.
• Enthusiastic about learning and sharing with team-mates.
• Help to foster an atmosphere in which creative innovation can take place.

Qualification/ Experience

• Demonstrable senior experience with a creative agency or production environment.
• Previous experience of leading teams, both directly and indirectly.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative suite, with a focus on moving image, including editing.
• Experience directing CG & animation.
• Adaptable to different creative approaches and styles.
• Experience with film and photography shoots.
• Knowledge of standard softwares and workflows to achieve creative goals and express vision to the production team.

Outcomes

• Creative overview of all projects in charge of ensuring that the S/O creativity is at the heart of every project and true to the ECDs vision.
• Communicating the developing creative vision to the client and getting them on board with Squint/Opera’s preferred concept.
• Improved team skills, participating in regular creative team meeting.
• Communicating the creative vision clearly to the production team.
• Accurate estimation of time required for projects.

About Squint/Opera

Squint/Opera is a design studio that brings together media production, digital technology and design to articulate, promote and execute the big ideas. We have studios in London and New York, and an international portfolio of clients including BIG, UNStudio, the Empire State Building, Heatherwick Studio, and the V&A.

We value pioneering attitudes, collaborative work and dedicated, generous individuals.