Creative Lead

Brand Warrior; Adelaide; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Brand Warrior in Adelaide is seeking an experienced Creative Lead to own creative across our South Australian agency. You’ll lead brand identities, packaging, websites and campaigns, working hands-on with clients and our close-knit team.

You’ll collaborate with Marketing, Content and Sales, mentor junior designers, and shape creative direction across wine, tourism, hospitality and lifestyle brands. The role offers Barossa HQ or North Adelaide office bases with one work-from-home day per week.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio demonstrating excellent design and conceptual thinking.
• Significant professional experience in graphic design, branding or a multidisciplinary creative role.
• Excellent typography, layout and attention to detail.
• Brand identity and brand system experience.
• Packaging and print-production experience.
• Experience designing and building websites, ideally in Wix and/or Shopify.

Responsibilities

• Develop brand identities, visual systems and brand guidelines.
• Design wine labels, packaging and print-ready artwork.
• Create campaign concepts and creative.
• Design publications, presentations and marketing collateral.
• Design and build websites using Wix and Shopify.
• Create digital, website and social media assets.
• Lead creative direction for photography, videography and content shoots.
• Develop concepts, shot lists and visual direction for content.
• Contribute hands-on to photography, videography and content creation where appropriate.
• Take creative projects from brief and concept through to finished execution.
• Maintain a high creative standard and provide quality assurance across our work.
• Contribute creative thinking to campaigns, pitches, workshops and client projects.

Skills

Branding

Graphic design

Typography

Brand identity

Website design

Multidisciplinary creative

Print production

Photography direction

Video direction

Client management

Collaboration

Tools

Wix

Shopify

Job description

Great creative. Strong thinking. Real ownership.

Brand Warrior is looking for an experienced, hands-on Creative Lead to own creative across our South Australian agency.

We’re a close-knit team working across wine, tourism, hospitality, retail and lifestyle brands. Our creative work is broad and varied — one week you might be developing a new brand identity or wine label, the next building a website, designing a publication, developing campaign creative or directing a content shoot.

This is a senior role, but definitely not one for someone who wants to step away from the tools.

You’ll bring ideas to the table, do the work yourself, and collaborate closely with our clients and team to achieve the best outcome.

What you’ll do

Develop brand identities, visual systems and brand guidelines

Design wine labels, packaging and print-ready artwork

Create campaign concepts and creative

Design publications, presentations and marketing collateral

Design and build websites using Wix and Shopify

Create digital, website and social media assets

Lead creative direction for photography, videography and content shoots

Develop concepts, shot lists and visual direction for content

Contribute hands-on to photography, videography and content creation where appropriate

Take creative projects from brief and concept through to finished execution

Maintain a high creative standard and provide quality assurance across our work

Contribute creative thinking to campaigns, pitches, workshops and client projects

About you

You may already be a Creative Lead, or you might be an experienced Senior Designer, Senior Creative, Art Director or Brand Designer ready for greater ownership.

You’ll bring:

A strong portfolio demonstrating excellent design and conceptual thinking

Significant professional experience in graphic design, branding or a multidisciplinary creative role

Excellent typography, layout and attention to detail

Brand identity and brand system experience

Packaging and print-production experience

Experience designing and building websites, ideally in Wix and/or Shopify

An understanding of digital and social environments

The ability to take projects from brief through to finished execution

Confidence managing multiple clients, projects and deadlines

The ability to present and explain creative thinking clearly

An understanding of how creative supports broader marketing and commercial objectives

An understanding of photography, videography and content creation is important. Hands-on capability behind the camera and experience creating short-form video content would be highly regarded.

Experience across wine, food, tourism, hospitality or lifestyle brands would also be an advantage, but isn’t essential.

How you work matters

Creative capability is important to us. So is how you work with people.

At Brand Warrior, Creative doesn’t operate in isolation. You’ll work closely with Marketing, Content, Sales and our clients.

We’re looking for someone who brings strong creative judgement while remaining curious, open and genuinely collaborative. Someone who can advocate confidently for a creative direction, but also listen, ask questions and recognise when another perspective can make the work better.

Our clients know their businesses and brands. Our team brings expertise across different disciplines. We believe the strongest creative outcomes come from bringing those perspectives together.

Strong opinions, lightly held.

About Brand Warrior

Brand Warrior is an independent South Australian marketing, sales and creative agency.

We’re a team of eight working with a diverse portfolio of brands across wine, tourism, hospitality, retail and lifestyle.

As a small agency, you won’t be one creative among many. You’ll have real ownership of Creative, work directly with our Founder & Director and senior team, and have the opportunity to influence how our creative capability develops.

The role can be based primarily from either our Barossa HQ or North Adelaide office. We offer flexible working arrangements, including one work-from-home day per week.

If North Adelaide is your primary base, we’d love you to spend regular time with the wider team at our Barossa HQ.