Conceptual Creative

Craft; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Holiday allowance grows by a day each—

Dedicated budget for culture

Job summary

Craft in Manchester is seeking a creative mind to turn strategy and briefs into immersive live experiences, from workshops to campaigns and even escape-room concepts. You’ll own ideas from spark through on-site delivery, collaborating with producers who bring theirs into the mix.

The role centers on live experiences (about 80%) with some campaigns (about 20%). Aimed at those early in their career, the team values clever thinking, ownership, and a passion for diverse, adventurous work

Qualifications

• Early in your career with 1 year or more experience.
• Background in design, art direction, or theatre is welcome.
• Able to critique and defend ideas; live events experience helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Translate briefs into immersive live experiences, workshops, or campaigns.
• Lead concepts from spark to on-site delivery, in collaboration with producers.
• Work primarily on live experiences (roughly 80%) and campaigns (20%).

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

• Hybrid working: three days a week in the studio
• 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.

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