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About the Role

We are looking for a progressive, forward-thinking Creative Director to lead across multiple EMEA lines of business, overseeing LIVE event content capture, creator campaigns, and global talent partnerships. This role involves diving deep into consumer behavior, elevating team output, and optimizing creative processes in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Elevate craft & execution: Guide art, copy, and editing across all outputs, maintaining an exceptionally high creative bar.
• Drive proactive ideation: Spark original, on-brief ideas for current accounts, new business pitches, and emerging tech opportunities.
• Build trusted client partnerships: Act as a steady, visionary lead who deeply understands brand objectives and collaborates directly with clients.
• Lead & mentor talent: Energise large, cross-functional creative teams, providing clear, actionable feedback and mentoring creatives.
• Win new business & champion the VM POV: Lead creative strategy and narrative for pitches, articulating VaynerMedia’s unique approach.
• Optimise operations & processes: Partner with leadership to streamline workflows, facilitate briefing sessions, and refine team structures.
• Direct creator & talent campaigns: Oversee large-scale influencer, creator, and talent initiatives, navigating complex global partnerships.
• Master live event coverage: Lead end-to-end event content capture strategies, directing onsite teams to deliver high-impact, social-native coverage.
• Balance ambition with business: Align creative vision with agency and client commercial goals, delivering outstanding work while keeping senior leadership informed.

Requirements

• 10+ years of creative agency or media experience, with a proven track record leading work across the EMEA region.
• A strong track record with talent & creators, including managing complex global social campaigns with high-profile influencers and partners.
• Onsite live-event expertise, with experience directing content capture strategies that translate physical events into engaging, social-native assets.
• Bonus points for AI familiarity, specifically around AI-driven discovery and AEO strategies.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.K.

Skills

• Execution: Prioritise effectively, take full ownership, and deliver high-standard work with complete autonomy.
• Leadership: Bring self-awareness, stay motivated, inspire others, and build VaynerX culture.
• Empathy: Lead with compassion, navigate diverse personalities, and create an inclusive environment.
• Communication: Connect effortlessly with others, manage relationships, and articulate ideas.
• Strategic Thinking: Look ahead, anticipate outcomes, and make sound business decisions.
• Adaptability: Be naturally curious, quick to adapt, and resilient.
• Global perspective: Thrive in complex, multicultural, and multi-geography environments.
• Self-starter mindset: Get things done without hand-holding and deliver excellence.
• Relationship builder: Naturally build strong, trusted connections with key internal stakeholders.
• Cool under pressure: Stay logical and find innovative solutions when facing challenges.

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 10+ years

Benefits

• Unlimited Holiday + 1 Day Birthday Leave
• YuLife (online discount platform)
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Unlimited Coaching sessions
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Program (Financial, Mental and Physical Wellbeing)
• Cash Plan with Medicash - Level 1 cover, option to add partner, 4 children can be added for free
• Virtual GP, Skinvision, 24/7 Health and Stress Helplines, Discounted Gym, Medicash Extras
• 2 weeks Work From Anywhere
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Group Personal Pension

About the Company

• We’re VaynerMedia - a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social and powered by big ideas, we deliver full-service work that drives real business growth.
• Founded in 2009, we are an independent global network spanning 10 offices worldwide, including New York, London, Singapore, and Tokyo, with award-winning work recognised by Cannes Lions, Clios, D&AD, and the Webbies.
• Culture is our core, and empathy is how we build it. Across EMEA, our 250+ team combines diverse backgrounds to create innovative, people-first solutions. Day in and day out, we propel the world's biggest brands to the intersection of attention and culture.
• Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft.
• We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.
• Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to.

Equal Opportunity

• VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class.