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About the Role

Are Media is seeking a Group Creative Lead to drive visual craft and creative quality for commercial output and lead a multi-disciplinary team. This role involves executing creative solutions that deliver audience engagement and commercial impact, collaborating with various teams to translate client briefs into innovative ideas across multiple channels, and ensuring creative excellence while building scalable frameworks.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end creative output for advertising and branded content campaigns across Are Media's portfolio of print, digital, and social.
Collaborate with Sales and Strategy to shape proposals that win, then oversee execution through to delivery.
Mentor and direct a team of creatives, setting the standard for craft, consistency, and commercial thinking.
Champion the creative product in client and agency conversations, presenting concepts with clarity and confidence.
Lead and uphold the visual creative direction across print, digital, social and branded content.
Translate client briefs into integrated, commercially effective creative concepts.
Provide art direction on key campaigns, pitches and client work.
Ensure all creative output is on-brief, on-brand and meets quality standards.
Direct and collaborate with designers, videographers, photographers and external partners.
Develop and implement design systems, templates and frameworks to improve efficiency.
Use performance data and audience insights to inform creative decisions.
Manage workflow, prioritisation and delivery across a high-volume creative pipeline.
Foster strong collaboration across Sales, Editorial, Strategy and Production teams.

Requirements

A strong portfolio spanning branded content, integrated campaigns, or media-owner creative; ideally including editorial-adjacent work.
Demonstrated experience leading creative teams in a media, agency, or in-house publishing environment.
Fluency across digital, social, and print formats; you understand the nuance each channel demands.
A track record of working effectively with commercial stakeholders without compromising creative integrity.
Familiarity with the Australian women's lifestyle and media landscape, and what resonates with highly engaged, loyalty-driven audiences.
Strong verbal communication skills; you can defend an idea and adapt one in equal measure.

Skills

Visual craft
Creative quality
Team leadership
Creative solution execution
Audience engagement
Commercial impact
Client brief translation
Innovative idea generation
Multi-channel campaign development
Design
Storytelling
Emerging trends analysis
Creative excellence
Scalable framework development
System development
Process development
Talent coaching
Talent development
Collaboration
High-quality work delivery
Fast-paced environment adaptation
High-volume environment adaptation
Advertising
Branded content
Print
Digital
Social media
Proposal shaping
Creative output mentorship
Commercial thinking
Client communication
Agency communication
Concept presentation
Visual creative direction
Art direction
On-brief adherence
On-brand adherence
Quality standards adherence
Designer collaboration
Videographer collaboration
Photographer collaboration
External partner collaboration
Design system implementation
Template implementation
Framework implementation
Performance data utilization
Audience insight utilization
Workflow management
Prioritisation
Delivery management
High-volume creative pipeline management
Sales team collaboration
Editorial team collaboration
Strategy team collaboration
Production team collaboration

Location

Australia

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Lead

Benefits

A day of leave for your birthday
4 days of volunteering leave each year
An inclusive parental leave program that supports all parents, families & carers
FREE digital access to all our titles
Are Media Learning Academy (Digital Academy, Lunch N Learns, Mentoring and much more)

About the Company

Are Media is Australia’s #1 women’s lifestyle network.
We connect with 90% of Australian women, igniting intention through our brands including The Australian Women’s Weekly, Better Homes and Gardens, Woman’s Day, marie claire, ELLE Australia, TV WEEK, New Idea, WHO, Australian Gourmet Traveller and BEAUTY/crew.
With deep insights into what moves, inspires and excites women, we join commercial partners with audiences across print magazines, digital and social channels, TV, video, Australia’s biggest online communities, content commerce and immersive experiences.
We create content Australians love across food, fashion, beauty, homes, entertainment, and lifestyle and through our Change AREgenda we drive meaningful and positive change for women.
Are Media employs Australia’s best content creation talent and we are proud that our greatest strength is our people.
Join Australia’s leading content company for women and be part of an inspiring, creative and collaborative team.

Equal Opportunity

Are Media is a proud member of Media Diversity Australia, a not-for-profit organisation working towards a media landscape that looks and sounds like Australia.
We are committed to fostering diverse, respectful, collaborative & inclusive workplace.
We know & value the success this brings for everyone and we welcome & encourage applications from diverse backgrounds.
When you apply, please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.