Head of Production

Craft; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Enhanced pension

Job summary

Craft in Manchester seeks a senior creative leader to own the brand’s end-to-end creative strategy, shaping a premium beauty identity. You’ll direct top-tier shoots and collaborations, then edit content in-house for platform-native performance.

You’ll also scale an existing design studio, introducing workflows, resource planning and advanced editing. Collaborating with Growth Marketing, you’ll test creative hypotheses using data to iterate hooks and visuals.

Qualifications

• Nine+ years in design, video production or art direction, likely at CD/Head of Studio level.
• Experience in beauty, cosmetics, skincare, luxury DTC or agencies serving them.
• Proven ability to lead and scale a creative function.

Responsibilities

• Own the brand's creative strategy end-to-end across identity, packaging, digital and campaigns.
• Direct high-end shoots and collaborations; edit creator footage into social-ready assets.
• Build and mature a studio team with resource planning and pipelines; mentor staff.

Skills

Brand strategy

Creative direction

Team leadership

Video editing

Motion graphics

Tools

Premiere Pro

After Effects

DaVinci Resolve

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Figma

Job description

Most Head of Creative roles ask you to choose. Lead the work or make it. Set the strategy or stay in the timeline. This one doesn't.

You'd be building the creative function of a beauty brand. You’ll define the brand's 360° identity from the ground up, and you stay hands-on directing and cutting the work that goes out. Architect and operator.

This is a beauty business operating in the premium end of the market, built around high-velocity performance content. It's still forming its creative identity - which is the point. You'd be the person shaping it.

The Role

You'll own the brand's creative strategy end to end: visual identity, typography, packaging, digital, motion, and the campaign calendar that runs through peak commercial moments and product launches. You'll direct tier-one shoots and high-end collaborations, then sit in the edit yourself - cutting creator footage into high-converting social assets, layering kinetic typography, structuring video for platform-native performance.

Alongside that, you'll take an existing studio of designers and content creators and build it into something more capable - introducing resource planning, project pipelines, and advanced editing and grading craft. You'll partner directly with Performance and Growth Marketing to establish a creative testing framework, using CTR, thumb-stop and conversion data to iterate hooks and visual variations systematically.

The Package

• 25 days holiday
• Enhanced pension

The Person

You've spent nine or more years across design, video production, or art direction - likely as a Creative Director, Head of Studio, or senior lead inside a beauty, cosmetics, skincare, or luxury DTC business, or at an agency serving them.

You're genuinely fluent in both worlds: as comfortable in Premiere Pro, After Effects and DaVinci Resolve as in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Figma. You know cosmetic colour grading, macro lighting and skin texture, and you've led people before - because building a studio means teaching craft, not just directing it.

A more diverse team is a more creative team.

It’s our job to build teams of people, and we’re proud to bring together a global network of diverse talent.

All applicants will be considered without regard to race, nationality, religious persuasion, sexual orientation, sex, marital or parental status, physical ability, gender, or age.