Associate Creative Director

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Graphic Design

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Job Description

As an Associate Creative Director at Maverick, you'll lead and support the creation of exceptional video game advertising content, including trailers, cinematics, and social media campaigns. You'll translate client needs into creative strategies that meet business objectives, overseeing a team and ensuring high-quality output. Responsibilities include directing creative briefs, managing resources, mentoring junior staff, and staying current with industry trends. You'll contribute to Maverick's long-term creative vision and foster a positive work environment. The role requires a strong understanding of the production process, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
Must have:
  • Significant knowledge of trailer/promo production
  • High-value client account management
  • Hands-on design, editing, animation skills
  • Team leadership and mentoring
  • Multiple brief management (pitch to post-production)
  • Delegation and organization skills
  • Creative problem-solving
Good to have:
  • Social media ideation and execution
  • New talent and supplier recruitment
  • New client acquisition
Perks:
  • 24 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
  • Extra Birthday Day Off
  • 5 Charity Days
  • Private Medical Care
  • Group Income Protection & Life Assurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Employer Pension Contributions
  • Cycle Scheme
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • Perkbox
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Description

Are you an experienced Associate Creative Director looking for a great job in an award-winning studio, working on amazing video games advertising? Read on…

About Maverick:

Maverick by name, maverick by nature. Maverick is one the most experienced games agencies in the world, having grown and adapted alongside the games industry since 1995.

We are a full-service advertising agency, working for games developers, publishers, and brands. We deliver end-to-end creative solutions that range from single pieces of content to full integrated campaigns. Our agency ethos is simple: be authentic in who we are, how we work and what we create. If we do that, then success will follow for our clients (and us).

For nearly 30 years, we’ve been creating trail-blazing & award-winning work for the world’s most prestigious games publishers, developers and brands. Our top-notch team of creatives, designers and producers are always ahead of the game, ready to take client’s marketing to the next level.

At Maverick, we know a diverse workforce only elevates the great work we do. As such, we are an equal opportunities employer, and we take diversity and inclusion seriously.

Maverick regularly assesses and reviews the environmental impact of our operations. We always strive to be as green as we can.

If this sounds like somewhere you want to work, apply today!

Job title: Associate Creative Director

Reports to: Creative Director

Responsible for: Junior Creative(s)

Contacts: ECD, Head of Creative Services, Creatives (all levels), Producers, Account Handlers

Summary:

Deliver (and support the delivery) of outstanding video game advertising content (trailers, cinematics, TV spots, artwork and social). Help steer the creative vision of our projects, ensuring creative excellence at all stages.

Help to develop Maverick’s long-term creative vision and inspire others to play their part in achieving that.

As part of Maverick’s leadership, help to steer the department in a sustainable, efficient and positive way – both inside and outside of projects.

Responsibilities:

  • Take our clients marketing and communications needs and translate these into creative strategies that achieve business missions and objectives.
  • Get immersed in IP’s, our clients and their briefs and the Maverick creative treatments across multiple simultaneous projects.
  • Oversee the wider creative team on assigned projects – delegating, organising and leading.
  • Direct assigned creative briefs through development and production to delivery ensuring our work is produced on-brief, on-time and with creative merit.
  • ‘Own’ the quality of creative output on projects with the Creative Directors.
  • Alongside Creative Directors act as a creative excellence gatekeeper– great attention to detail and always pushing for highest quality creative.
  • Research and stay up to date, particularly with social platforms, finding new, inventive ways to engage audiences online.
  • Where possible, add creative consultancy, insight, ideation and practical support to creative or strategic opportunities.
  • Communicate to the creative and production teams approximate timescales for development.

Requirements

Targets/Objectives:

  • Creative work meets (and exceeds) client expectations i.e., is “on-brief.”
  • Add value to / help develop existing client relationship by expanding our offerings to include social media ideation and execution.
  • Recruitment of new talent and new creative suppliers to projects.
  • Where possible, aid in the acquisition of new clients, or add value to new client relationships by expanding our creative offerings to include social media ideation and execution.
  • High level of attention to detail and standards on all elements of work from documentation to project delivery. Keen eye for spotting errors and inconsistencies.
  • Know when to delegate and guide others – not always hands on.
  • Support more junior members of the team.
  • Find, qualify and develop a list of specialist freelancers who are able to support on the creative delivery of projects and build capacity in the area of social and technology.

Skills & Experience Required:

  • Significant knowledge of each step of the trailer/promo production process.
  • Ability to manage high value, highly visible single client account.
  • Hands on design, editing, animation skills.
  • Oversight of both internal / external resources throughout the creative / design / delivery process.
  • Ability to lead, manage, mentor and motivate creatives and staff generally.
  • Ability to take, ideate and respond to multiple briefs at all stages (pitch through to post-production).
  • Ability to delegate.
  • Well organised with experience in media admin / management and quality control.
  • Great creative problem solver – thinks outside of the box.

Benefits

  • 24 Days Annual Leave, plus UK Bank Holidays
  • An extra day off on your birthday
  • 5 Charity days per year
  • Private Medical Care
  • Group Income Protection & Group Life Assurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Employer Pension Contributions
  • Cycle Scheme
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • Perkbox
  • And many more!
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