Conceptual Creative

Craft; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance grows by a day each年

Dedicated budget for culture: shows, g

Hybrid working: three days a week in a

Job summary

Craft Agency Ltd. in Manchester is a brand engagement studio that turns strategy or messages into live experiences that move a brand’s own people.

This role focuses on ideas, shaping big ideas from a messy brief into workshops, immersive events, or campaigns, and guiding them from spark to on-site delivery with producers.

Expect about 80% live experiences and 20% campaigns, with hybrid working three days a week in the studio and occasional international travel.

Qualifications

• Early in your career, perhaps a year in or a few.
• Background in design, art direction, or related field.
• You can bring references and defend an idea in critique.

Responsibilities

• Uncover the big idea from a messy brief and shape it into a workshop, immersive event, escape room, or campaign.
• Lead concepts from spark to on-site delivery, collaborating with producers.
• Balance is roughly 80% live experiences and 20% campaigns, ensuring thoughtful execution.

Skills

Creative thinking

Idea development

Concept critique

Education

Design / Art direction background

Job description

This is a Manchester brand engagement studio working with household‑name banks, airlines and global life sciences companies. But not the work you’d expect. Their remit is internal – turning a client’s strategy, vision or set of messages into live experiences that genuinely move a brand’s own people. Recent delivery has taken the team to New York, Atlanta and Japan.

The Role

This is a role built around ideas, not execution. You’ll find the big idea hiding in a messy brief and shape it into something people can walk into: a workshop, an immersive event, an escape room, a campaign.

Work splits roughly 80% live experiences, 20% campaigns, so you’ll take concepts from the first spark through to on-site delivery, working closely with producers who bring ideas of their own. What matters most is clever thinking and taking real ownership.

The Package

£30,000 – £45,000
Hybrid working: three days a week in the studio
Occasional international travel for on-site delivery
Holiday allowance grows by a day each year
Dedicated budget for culture: shows, galleries and events

The Person

You’re early in your career – perhaps a year in, perhaps a few. You might come from design, art direction, or somewhere less conventional entirely, like theatre.

You already seek out interesting things unprompted and bring references to the table without being asked. You can hold an idea up in a critique and defend it. Live events experience helps but isn’t essential; great thinking is.