Creative Lead - Experiential
Posted 3 days ago by Sphere Digital Recruitment
£70,000 Per year
Inside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The Creative Lead role is focused on driving and enhancing creative output in a fast-paced environment, encompassing brand, digital, and immersive experiences. This position requires leadership of a small team to produce innovative work that meets high creative standards while balancing commercial needs. The role serves as a bridge between creative, sales, and marketing teams to ensure ambitious yet executable ideas. The position is based in London and operates on a hybrid working model.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead creative output across campaigns, content, and experiential activations
- Drive concept development for brand partnerships and commercial projects
- Ensure all work is delivered to a high creative standard, with consistency across touchpoints
- Partner closely with commercial and sales teams to respond to briefs
- Translate client needs into compelling, insight-led creative ideas
- Balance creative ambition with feasibility, scalability, and budget considerations
- Support pitches and presentations at a senior level
- Lead, mentor, and develop a small in-house creative team
- Manage freelancers and external partners where needed
- Oversee workflow, prioritisation, and resource allocation
- Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, commercial, and production teams
- Act as a key creative voice internally and externally
- Build strong working relationships with clients and partners
- Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget
- Support efficient creative processes from briefing through to delivery
- Contribute to improving workflows, tools, and ways of working
Key Skills:
- Proven experience leading creative projects or teams within an agency or similar environment
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality, commercially effective work
- Experience across brand, digital, content, or experiential projects
- Ability to translate briefs into clear, compelling creative responses
- Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills
- Commercial awareness, with an understanding of budgets and delivery constraints
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams (design, motion, content, etc.)
Salary (Rate): £70000.00 per annum
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
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Posted: 01/05/2026
- Up to £70000.00 per annum
- London
- Contract
Creative Lead
Location: London (Hybrid)
Contract: 6-month FTC
Salary: c.£70K
Overview
We're looking for a Creative Lead to drive and elevate creative output across a dynamic, fast-paced environment spanning brand, digital, and immersive experiences.
This role sits at the intersection of creative, commercial, and delivery - leading a small team to produce high-quality, innovative work that not only looks great but performs.
You'll act as a key bridge between creative, sales, and marketing, ensuring ideas are both ambitious and executable.
Key Responsibilities
Creative Leadership
- Lead creative output across campaigns, content, and experiential activations
- Drive concept development for brand partnerships and commercial projects
- Ensure all work is delivered to a high creative standard, with consistency across touchpoints
Commercial Collaboration
- Partner closely with commercial and sales teams to respond to briefs
- Translate client needs into compelling, insight-led creative ideas
- Balance creative ambition with feasibility, scalability, and budget considerations
- Support pitches and presentations at a senior level
Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a small in-house creative team
- Manage freelancers and external partners where needed
- Oversee workflow, prioritisation, and resource allocation
Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, commercial, and production teams
- Act as a key creative voice internally and externally
- Build strong working relationships with clients and partners
Operational & Delivery Focus
- Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget
- Support efficient creative processes from briefing through to delivery
- Contribute to improving workflows, tools, and ways of working
Key Skills & Experience
- Proven experience leading creative projects or teams within an agency or similar environment
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality, commercially effective work
- Experience across brand, digital, content, or experiential projects
- Ability to translate briefs into clear, compelling creative responses
- Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills
- Commercial awareness, with an understanding of budgets and delivery constraints
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams (design, motion, content, etc.)
Profile
- Creative thinker with a commercial mindset
- Collaborative, proactive, and solutions-focused
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment
- Equally confident shaping ideas and ensuring they are delivered
Sphere Digital Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.