Senior Art Director

TLC Worldwide; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global marketing agency in Westminster is looking for an ambitious Senior Art Director to join its creative team. The ideal candidate will possess extensive agency experience, award-winning ideas, and strong skills in visual communication. Responsibilities include pitching innovative promotional campaigns, creating attention-grabbing ads, and collaborating effectively with team members. This role emphasizes fast-paced creative work and the importance of a diverse and inclusive culture. Competitive compensation and exciting opportunities await.

Benefits

Dynamic and collaborative team

Weekly development webinars

Annual Wellness Week

Cultural events and social gatherings

Volunteering opportunities

Opportunities for women leadership

Shareholder scheme for all employees

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a creative agency setting is crucial.
• Demonstrated success in developing award-winning promotional campaigns.
• Exceptional visualising and communication skills are required.

Responsibilities

• 70% of work involves pitching, 30% finished work.
• Collaborate with the UK team on innovative promotional campaigns.
• Create engaging ads to attract client interest.
• Present concepts confidently to clients as part of a team.
• Work quickly and creatively with a talented team.
• Open to receiving directional feedback.

Skills

Extensive experience from an agency background

Award winning promotional ideas

Strong visualising / communication skills

Ability to tactfully art direct designers/illustrators

Proven experience in presenting creative concepts

Ability to interact with diverse personality types

Job description

WE ARE HIRING A SENIOR ART DIRECTOR

Ever opened a new bank account and got a weekend away? Spent on fashion and received a personal styling session? Picked up groceries and walked away with cinema tickets?

If so, you’ve probably experienced a TLC Worldwide campaign - without even knowing it.

At TLC, we help the world’s biggest brands drive customer acquisition, loyalty and engagement with emotionally engaging, experience-led rewards. From global banks to high street retailers, our programs are designed shift behaviour, boost ROI and build genuine brand love – at the fraction of the cost of discounting and cash offers. Backed by COSMOS, our all-in-one program platform, we deliver personalised campaigns at scale with live data, smart insights, and seamless customer journeys.

We’ve spent 30 years mastering what moves customers; combining deep consumer insight, a global network of 100,000+ rewards, and a unique ability to drive measurable ROI for brands.

We’re 400+ people strong, across 15 global hubs. A collective of marketers, creatives and strategists who care about doing great work - and having fun while we do it. We celebrate bold thinking, empower growth, and champion the kind of culture that helps people thrive.

Here are a few things that we've got to offer:

• Dynamic & collaborative team in a creative environment with exposure to global clients & colleagues - Check out our clients
• Weekly webinars to support your development through our People Academy
• Annual TLC Wellness Week and programmes throughout the year
• TLC Culture Club - including seasonal social events, tasty lunches & more
• TLC Gives Back - volunteering opportunities, including off site visits and volunteering leave
• TLC Rise - supporting and empowering women into leadership roles
• 'Frankies' - Our very own awards ceremony where we walk down the TLC red carpet in our best outfits
• TLC Owner's Club - Everyone that is part of the TLC experience contributes to our success, which is why we all own a piece of TLC as part of our share holder scheme

TLC UK continues to win awards in promotional marketing and loyalty, specialising in lifestyle reward content delivered by its own proprietary platform. We work with the UK’s biggest brands across sectors as diverse as Telcos to Snacks delivering promotional themes, point of sale material gamification and redemption websites.

Key accounts include YouTube, KP Snacks, Three mobile, Klarna and Nationwide.

Before you read on, be prepared to forget everything you think you know about how a traditional agency works.

We work fast, (really fast) pitch constantly, often with the barest of briefs using our insight and experience to create outstanding ideas and really believe anything is possible.

And we can’t do all that without big promotional thinking, that’s why we are on the lookout for a bright, ambitious idea-led Art Director to join the UK creative team.

What you'll be doing:

• 70% Pitching 30% finished work.
• Work with the wider UK team to help to create innovative promotional campaigns
• Create ‘door openers’ / ads to grab client’s attention and drive new business enquiries
• Be happy presenting your concepts to clients ( as part of a wider team)
• Work fast and prolifically with a small talented creative team
• Be open to direction

Who we're looking for:

• Extensive experience from an agency background
• Award winning promotional ideas
• Strong visualising / communication skills
• Ability to tactfully art direct designers/illustrators and editors
• Proven experience in presenting and successfully selling in creative concepts internally and externally
• Ability to interact with all personality types and with all levels of staff building personal trust in you and your ideas

Being a people-led business, we hire upon values and believe that our people are what make the beloved TLC culture so unique.

At TLC we aim to create a ‘world within the world’ that is free from prejudice, bias and inequity.

A world where diversity is valued and celebrated, and where we work hard to ensure all our wonderful people are given equal opportunity to succeed.

If you're excited by everything we've told you, then it's time to apply!