Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We're home to market-leading brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music.

We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content – in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Your Home, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus.

We also have an award-winning content agency that works with major charities, brands and membership organisations to help them tell their stories and engage audiences better – in print, video, and online.

In our agency team, we create commercial campaigns and native content for a wide range of external partners, helping to win and deliver significant revenues every year. Our campaigns run across both our own and client channels, delivering fantastic reach and brand awareness in digital, print and video. Our agency is also an incubator for new brand launches and partnership opportunities, a place to explore new audience engagement ideas.

We’re now looking for a Creative Lead to shape and champion our commercial content, from initial brainstorm to campaign wrap up. We’re looking for an experienced agency creative or marketing-focused art director who can come up with exciting concepts from client briefs, deliver great creative outputs, and really get to grips with how to engage an audience. Crucially, we want someone who thinks from a partnership perspective, generating ideas that really deliver for our clients.

You’ll work with both internal and external marketing briefs, so you need to be able to flip between the two, responding to clients’ needs and helping us develop our own new propositions. A lot of your time will be hands-on design, across a wide range of formats. You’ll turn your hand to branding, publications, illustrations and infographics, social media posts, animations, photography and videos.

One of our values is ‘Curiosity’, and as Creative Lead you would be responsible for putting that value into practice with consistent research and understanding of new trends, creative innovation and marketing inspiration.

It’s going to be fast-paced, with multiple projects on the go and collaboration with cross-functional teams. So it’s crucial you can bring others with you – clients, colleagues and partners – inspiring them with ideas that are both creatively exciting and grounded in insight. You’re a storyteller at heart, and you’ll be able to deliver at a high level in both written and verbal form to clients at a senior level.

For a full list of responsibilities, please see the job description.

Essential:

• Good working knowledge of Adobe Creative suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Able to interrogate and understand a creative brief, in line with business objectives including lead generation – discussing requirements, understanding target audiences
• Be comfortable delivering creative vision and execution across branding, publications, film/video, animation and campaigns
• Provide art direction and photo/video shoot direction where required
• Good team working skills, keen to foster a collaborative creative environment where ideas are shared, and norms are humbly challenged
• Persuasive and articulate when it comes to directing or presenting, inspiring confidence and trust in colleagues
• Hands on and self-motivated. Willing to work outside flexibly to get the job done

Preferred:

• Experience in an advertising or marketing agency environment as a Midweight or Senior Designer
• Knowledge of After Effects and Figma
  

We respect and value differences. We believe that when people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives work together, we can create the most value for our people, readers, customers, and society. If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with everything listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may still be a good fit for this or other roles.

We’re striving to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and to ensure our content is representative of all our audiences. We have established five internal D&I network groups to help our people feel supported and included, and to provide an open environment for people to network, mentor and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences. If there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please do let us know at [email protected].

Flexible and hybrid working

We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work, and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office.

Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year.

We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies.

Company benefits include

• Pension contribution matched to 5%
• Season ticket loan
• Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
• Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
• Social committee, regular in-house learning events
• 4x life assurance

Our values

We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world.

We have an ambitious and robust sustainability strategy, which includes a zero-to-waste, renewable-energy-fuelled office at Eagle House, the complete removal of single-use plastics from our supply chain, and a roadmap to be fully carbon neutral by 2030.

To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we recently co-created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are:

• Be kind
• Always curious
• Be the best we can be

Apply today to take the next step in your career with Our Media - click the apply button below to submit your CV.

Please note, we review CVs on an ongoing basis and may close the role early due to high interest, If you're interested in joining us, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible!