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About the Role
As a Studio Director, you will lead and manage a studio within the Studio Network, acting as a strategic advisor to brand marketers. Your responsibilities include creating and scaling content, leading a core team, orchestrating creative delivery, and ensuring high-quality output.
Responsibilities
- Lead the studio’s daily operations, ensuring briefs meet agreed standards and service levels are consistently achieved.
- Serve as the trusted point of contact for brand marketers, participating in planning sessions and proactively addressing roadblocks.
- Optimize capacity by balancing core team, flexible resources, and the wider network to manage workflow.
- Oversee quality control, track compliance to KPIs, and ensure high scores on the client's Creative Scale.
- Manage daily workflow with global delivery centers, ensuring quality control before asset delivery.
- Own the quarterly studio scorecard and drive at least one major operational improvement each quarter.
- Foster a supportive team environment focused on retention and growth, leading onboarding and training.
Requirements
- Proven leadership in running a high-volume, high-quality creative or content studio.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills with senior brand marketers and complex matrix structures.
- Strong operational acumen, including capacity planning, resource management, and workflow optimization.
- A keen eye for creative quality and platform-native content, using data to measure and elevate output.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities to translate scorecard data into actionable improvements.
- Track record of building, retaining, and growing high-performing teams.
- Commercially savvy, culturally fluent, and proactive mindset.
Skills
- Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Operational Acumen
- Capacity Planning
- Resource Management
- Workflow Optimization
- Creative Quality Assessment
- Platform-Native Content
- Data Analysis
- Problem-Solving
- Team Development
- People Management
- AI Tool Integration
Location
- London
- National
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full Time
- Hybrid Working
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Hybrid Working
- 25 days holiday
- Paid volunteering day
- Option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave
- Generous matched pension scheme (up to 17.5% total contribution)
- BUPA Private Medical Insurance
- Discounted BUPA dental cover or financial contribution towards wellness
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (remote GPs, mental health support, physio, nutrition, counselling)
- Free 1-to-1 professional and personal growth coaching sessions annually
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
About the Company
- Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas for over 75 years.
- Ogilvy operates through Borderless Creativity, integrating expertise across advertising, sports & entertainment, PR & social, consulting, and health.
- Ogilvy has over 120 offices spanning 90 countries.
- Ogilvy was named Network of the Year at the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
- Ogilvy ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC for the fourth consecutive year.
- Ogilvy is part of WPP, a trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands.
- WPP utilizes cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and expert strategic counsel.
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands, uniting media intelligence, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and strategic counsel.
- WPP uses its agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.
Equal Opportunity
- Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics.
- Ogilvy is committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
- Ogilvy believes in building powerful teams with purpose and curates transformative initiatives to make fairness and equity a reality.
- Ogilvy's mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting global communities.