Art Director - Contract

Blackbridge; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

25 days' holiday

Employee Assistance Programme

Health Cash Plan

Enhanced parental pay and leave

Company pension scheme

Job summary

Blackbridge in London is seeking an Art Director to lead bold campaigns and craft visually striking concepts for diverse brands. You will guide creative direction across campaigns, collaborate with writers, designers and developers, and oversee production from concept to delivery.

The role is a 3-month fixed-term contract with potential extension, based in our Spitalfields hub and operating on a hybrid model (3 days in the office, 2 days at home).

Job description

Our new Art Director has it all…

Those striking visual concepts behind campaigns that win hearts and minds. The integrated marketing expertise to adapt their art to Reddit or TikTok, as comfortably as storyboarding film or masterminding outlandish out-of-home experiences. A passion for their craft that means being as fastidious when kerning copy as they are directing on big shoots.

If this sounds like you, we’re prepared to give you the big name clients and partners to deliver work you are truly proud of. You’ll collaborate with a team of writers, designers, filmmakers, editors and developers, who love the work and crave delivering stand-out creative as much as you do.

We’re classically inspired and digitally relevant

Your inspirations should be diverse – from classical art to the latest technologies – and you know how to tune a great idea to work in digital and analogue spaces. Your hunger for new and exciting should be relentless when looking for styles, trends, artists and collaborators to work with. You will ignite that fire in your colleagues as you brainstorm concepts, because you know there are a million exciting ideas to have, and with thought and craft some of them could be amazing.

Of course, there are times when our clients, as ambitious as they are, will crush your soul along with your big idea. Sometimes the budgets or timings will be a challenge. It happens everywhere. But dust yourself down, because tomorrow the right brief will come along, and when it does, we know how to back it with all our creative might. As we continue to outdo ourselves, over and over again.

Why Blackbridge?

With countless industry awards to our name, we really are pushing the boundaries of employer branding – a constantly growing and currently booming area of marketing. What we do is every bit as creative and innovative as consumer advertising, but with an added sense of self-worth. Because we aren’t selling sodas; we’re helping people find and build their futures with world-renowned brands like Skyscanner, TJX and SIemens.

Even better, this is what it feels like to be a holistic creative. Building brands from scratch and managing campaigns from end to end. We hope you’ll love working here. Nice people usually do. We’re close-knit and know how to enjoy ourselves in and around the creative hub that is Spitalfields, London.

Right now we are excitedly busy and need your enthusiasm and skills to help out on an initial 3-month fixed-term contract. There is potential for the contract to extend beyond the initial three months, and the hope will be the good times keep rolling and, won over by your talents, we drop to one knee and ask you to become a full-time partner here.

Our benefits are competitive and intended to help make your life a little easier:

• Being employee-owned, we have a colleague appointed representative (Partner Councillor) who gives us the chance to voice our opinions on various elements of the business in an open and productive manner
• A work-life balance is important to who we are, that's why we have a hybrid work policy, with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
• We have regular socials and events to give us the chance to make genuine friendships and connections outside of the workday. Activities we've had in the past include quiz nights, karaoke, drinks at various Central London pubs/bars and The Cube
• 25 days' holiday with 1.5 days gifted over Christmas
• Our Employee Assistance Programme is available to you 24/7, which offers mental health support through courses and counselling sessions
• Health Cash Plan – claim back costs for everyday healthcare (dental, optical, prescriptions, physiotherapy, etc.), plus access to a wide range of discounts
• Enhanced parental pay and leave, so you can settle your family in, enjoy the early days and maintain your sense of financial security
• You’ll have access to our company pension scheme, helping you save towards your long-term financial wellbeing