Senior Creative (12m FTC)

LADbible Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

4 days in office

Job summary

LADbible Group is expanding its Creative team and seeks a Senior Creative (12m FTC) to lead ideation, strategy and execution for branded pitches and campaigns.

You will run end-to-end processes with an emphasis on youth culture and social platforms, overseeing junior teams and ensuring creative and commercial success.

Qualifications

• Senior level creative experience in social-led environments.
• Proven track record delivering creative and commercially successful projects.
• Ability to design pitch presentations in Keynote/PowerPoint/Google Slides.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from briefing to delivery, working with the rest of the creative team.
• Develop strong social-first ideas and challenge briefs and strategies where necessary.
• Be a content specialist, understanding the roles and production constraints of different content types (especially video) on social platforms.
• Specialise in social-led activations but be familiar with creating integrated campaigns, with an understanding of how to use everything from OOH to experiential in your campaign strategies.
• Communicate and champion creative thinking and technical execution to clients throughout each project.
• Oversee junior project teams to help them deliver their best work.
• Be a detail-oriented senior when it comes to approving work with overall accountability.
• Understand how to brief craft specialists: Animators, Designers, Directors, Talent etc. to deliver projects against your creative vision.

Skills

Senior creative

Craft skills

Fast-paced

Project management

Budget understanding

Video content

Team management

Youth culture

Pitch presentations

Job description

LADbible Group is one of the world's most engaged digital entertainment businesses, reaching over a billion people globally and amassing more than 13.9 billion social views each month. With a powerhouse portfolio across general lifestyle, entertainment, sport, gaming, and tech, our brands include LADbible, SPORTbible and Betches.

LADbible's Commercial Team, LAD360, is a powerhouse of creativity, strategy, and innovation - partnering with the world's most iconic brands, from Google and Nike to Disney and Tesco. With a headcount of 150 and growing, LAD360 has rapidly become one of the most formidable forces in media, delivering culture-shaping campaigns.

Our work has earned us top industry accolades, including Commercial Team of the Year at the 2025 Campaign UK Awards and Media Brand of the Year at the 2024 MediaWeek Awards. At the heart of it all is a relentless drive to push boundaries, tell bold stories, and connect brands to youth culture like no one else can.

About the Role

Due to continued business growth and wins, we are expanding the Creative team even further!

We're looking for a conceptual Senior Creative (12m FTC) to lead the creative ideation, strategy and execution for our branded pitches and campaigns.

It's an opportunity that requires excellent creative skills and an in-depth understanding of youth culture to be able to run the process from end to end, whilst also demonstrating commercial awareness and our ways of working at LADbible Group.

What the opportunity looks like

• Lead projects from briefing to delivery, working with the rest of the creative team
• Develop strong social-first ideas and challenge briefs and strategies where necessary
• Be a content specialist, understanding the roles and production constraints of different content types (especially video) on social platforms
• Specialise in social-led activations but be familiar with creating integrated campaigns, with an understanding of how to use everything from OOH to experiential in your campaign strategies
• Communicate and champion creative thinking and technical execution to clients throughout each project
• Oversee junior project teams to help them deliver their best work
• Be a detail-oriented senior when it comes to approving work with overall accountability
• Understand how to brief craft specialists: Animators, Designers, Directors, Talent etc. to deliver projects against your creative vision

Skills and experience we'd like you to have

• Senior level creative experience in a social-led creative, marketing or advertising environment
• Practical craft skills as well as conceptual thinking
• Experience in a fast-paced, quick turnaround environment
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Understanding of how budgets work, scope of work and realistic deliverables
• Deep understanding of the role that video/social content plays in every project
• Proven track record delivering creatively and commercially successful projects
• Experience overseeing teams
• Interest in youth culture, pop cultures and social good
• Ability to design pitch presentations in Keynote, PowerPoint, Google slides etc.

At LADbible Group we've rolled out blended working which means the majority of departments across the business (including London, Manchester and International offices) work in the office 4 days per week.

LADbible Group is an equal opportunities employer. We are determined to create a diverse group at all levels of our company and we welcome all members of the community to apply for openings with us. As the leading social youth publisher, we have a powerful global platform to better represent our audience and enable those that do not have equal opportunities to have their voices heard. As a business, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce, in an environment where everyone feels comfortable to be themselves.