Creative Lead

Location

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire | United Kingdom

Job description

Do you have excellent video editing skills alongside a good appreciation of design fundamentals?

We're looking for a Creative Lead to join our fast-paced creative services team to spearhead the digital advertising scrum team. This scrum team specialize in short-form media across video, art and design, working closely with our digital marketing and analytics teams. This team are assisted by a fully retained creative agency and work across Jagex’s entire product suite.

You'll be responsible for leading the ideation sessions, using the data and feedback from the analytics teams to shape them and providing creative direction to both the in-house and agency teams.

This is a fast-moving team so you will need to be organized and deadline-driven but you will be working alongside a designated creative producer who will take on the majority of project management. Your key responsibility will be the creative output. The role will be a mix on hands-on work and creative direction. As a lead you’ll need to split your time effectively between the team management and creative contribution. You’ll be responsible for creating a healthy environment to unleash potential in others and facilitate career progression.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead creative contact for the digital marketing scrum team
• Acting as a mentor and leader to the team
• Delivering clearly communicated creative feedback to internal and external teams
• Producing high quality video and design media for digital advertising
• Working closely with Marketing teams, Copywriters, Web Developers and various other skillsets
• Producing creative briefs and tests based on performance data
• Constructing creative tests and enforcing the learnings we take from them
• Following multiple product brand guides
• Working closely with creative directors and product stakeholders.

What we're looking for:

• A fantastic showreel or portfolio of work you have undertaken, highlighting your talents from creative conception to execution and production, with relevant examples of how your knowledge has or can be applied to the gaming industry
• Proficient in the use of Adobe Suite, including Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop
• Good knowledge of editing terminology, workflows, and best practices.
• A good eye for colours, typography, design and composition
• Ability to show good initiative, judgement and excellent attention to detail
• Good leadership qualities and the ability and patience to share your knowledge with others
• Experience working in similar Senior or Lead roles, ideally within gaming or entertainment industries
• Experience working with digital advertising
• A passion for gaming
• Experience of working on multiple projects to tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills.

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
• £75 Monthly Energy Allowance (Paid on top of your salary)
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise.
If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.

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Salary

£35k - £49k per annum