Studio/Creative Lead

Talent Realised; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Realised is seeking a Studio Creative Lead to head a new in-house studio for a well-known Australian retail brand. The role is hands-on, overseeing intake, priorities, workflow and quality on every outgoing asset.

You will shoot, edit and produce alongside the team, and act as the main interface with brand and media agencies to ensure briefs land clearly. On-site in Sydney, permanent role with a lean, AI-enabled workflow.

Qualifications

• Senior creative or design leadership experience in retail or fast-moving multi‑channel environments.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and Figma; ability to shoot and edit when needed.
• Experience using AI production tools for imagery, video and voice.
• Experience managing studio workflows using Monday.com.

Responsibilities

• Run the studio day to day, intake, priorities, workflow and service levels.
• Create, produce, shoot and edit with the team during peak periods.
• Be the studio’s main interface with Head of Marketing and agencies to ensure briefs land clearly.
• Build and manage the freelance bench and offshore support.
• Coach and develop a team of 4 and document playbooks.
• Own performance reporting on turnaround, cost and volume.

Skills

Senior leadership

Retail experience

Multi-channel

Shoot & edit on demand

AI production tools

Team coaching

On-brand storytelling

Workflow management

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Monday.com

Job description

The Company

Reporting to the Head of Marketing The Studio Creative Lead sits at the head of a brand new in-house studio for an Australian retail name you know and love, the kind you've bought something from more than once over the years!!.

The studio is lean and AI enabled, spanning campaign rollout, retail, catalogue, social, digital and video photography across Australia and New Zealand, and works inside the business alongside the marketing and digital team rather than sitting apart from it.

What you'll actually be doing

You’ll run the studio day to day, intake, priorities, workflow and service levels, and own brand and quality on everything that leaves it. This is a hands‑on seat too, you’ll create, produce, shoot and edit alongside the team, especially at peak, and you’ll be the studio’s main interface along with the Head of Marketing and the brand and media agencies so briefs land clear. You’ll build and manage the freelance bench and offshore support, coach and develop a team of 4, and document the playbooks that keep the studio's capability shared rather than stuck in one head, while owning performance reporting on turnaround, cost and volume.

What you’ll bring

• Senior creative or design leadership experience, agency studio or in‑house, ideally in retail or another fast‑moving multi‑channel environment
• Strong personal craft across the Adobe suite and Figma, with the confidence to shoot and edit when the week demands it
• Working fluency with AI production tools for imagery, video and voice, and a real appetite to build a studio around them
• Experience running traffic and workflow in a tool such as Monday.com, holding service levels under retail pace
• High standards held calmly under pressure, a generous approach to coaching, and the judgement to know when to push back and when to let the work go

What’s in it for you

This is a leadership seat with real teeth! You’ll have four direct reports, a studio whose culture and capability you get to build from the ground up, and a direct line to the Head of Marketing so your thinking shapes how creative gets made, not just how fast it moves. You’re backed by a freelance bench and offshore production support for the surges, so peak never lands on you alone. It’s on site in Sydney with its own photography studio, full time and permanent, with a business behind it that people already know and trust.