Bow & Arrow, Creative Lead

Creative Lead

Team: Creative

Reports to: Senior Creative Lead

PLEASE NOTE

You must include your design portfolio in your application, which demonstrates your experience in Product Design or similar roles. Please also include five bullet points on why you would be a great addition to the Bow & Arrow team. Your application cannot be considered without this information.

WHY WE ARE HERE

Based in Soho Square, London, Bow & Arrow is an entrepreneurial team of 50+ ‘Genius Misfits’. Guided by a set of core values and driven by a collective desire to make a positive impact in the world through the work we do every day.

We create digital products, services and ventures for game-changing businesses, including BMW MINI, Google, British Airways, Airbnb, John Lewis, The Wall Street Journal and Amex.

Bringing together the sharpest creative, strategic and commercial minds, we work in tight, truly collaborative and high-performing teams to accelerate concepts from idea to market-ready, quicker than anyone else can.

Thanks to a unique partnership with Accenture, we’re able to combine world-class innovation with cutting-edge implementation and create tangible impact with some of the biggest brands in the world.

THE ROLE

Bow & Arrow exists for our clients and is made up of a number of tightly knit, flexible start-up teams. Within that there are two core teams that are experts in our professional disciplines - creative and strategy. As a Creative Lead you are here to apply creative thinking and end-to-end project management to take ideas from conception to completion. You are our client’s energy pack that propels the projects into world-class strategic design solutions, to manage complex workstreams and co-run projects, providing a crucial link between our Creative team, Strategists and our Senior Strategy Leads.

As a Creative Lead you will be:

Working in partnership with Strategy counterpart to lead projects through planning & assigning the creative delivery for each project workstream

Executing world-class, exceptional creative content and ensure all outputs are manifested with the strategic direction

Managing project teams by outlining the project's creative deliverables, clearly briefing Designers and Interns on individual tasks, setting clear internal deadlines and overseeing the completion of each task

Carrying out research and creative discovery to explore and execute world-class concepts, customer experiences and brand identities

Creating and oversee creation of context boards relating to the client’s context: competitors, value, brand assets and guidelines, strengths and weaknesses

Using design to drive impact, create clarity and help enhance the story, narrative or proposition – consistently leveraging the creative process effectively to uphold our high quality of creative output

Clearly communicate and implement the creative process with Designers and Interns. Help overcome roadblocks using case studies or previous experience

Create the project vision, bridging Strategy and Design

Ensuring all outputs and presentations are designed to a high standard of quality, in good time for client delivery

Leading our clients throughout the project – leading client meetings, running workshops & day to day catch ups

Coaching Designers and interns through their day-to-day performance and growth journey on your project, sharing feedback and providing them with a positive learning experience at Bow & Arrow

Running internal initiatives and adding to the culture of B&A, e.g. intern programme, internal events and team meetings and initiatives such ‘high profile’ company videos

Taking on a mentoring role with 1-2 Designers/interns – creating personal objectives and finding opportunities to achieve them, ensuring they have support.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

An absolute must have in every candidate is that they live and truly believe our values of being driven, fearless, striving for better, bringing your authentic self and being generous in all that we do

We look for people with a growth mindset who thrive working at pace with new and complex problems. You’ll love working autonomously as a team, be skilled at navigating ambiguity and adept at challenging your client to think differently

‘Design’ at Bow & Arrow is an equal mix of creative thinking, and creative execution, so you will need to be able to fluidly work across the spectrum of design, doing what it takes and finding ways to help the work land with impact

As a Creative Lead, you will need to have a solid level of craft, good eye for detail and drive to create world-class execution. You should also have a hunger for people development and team collaboration.

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