Creative (Midweight)

Job Description

This might be the most important hiring decision we’ve made yet. 

We’re growing fast and looking for a new Creative — someone to work with our fantastic current team as we level up from a start up agency to established independent. With so many great projects coming up we need help! But we need the right kind of person who understands that working at Weirdo is about more than just a job. Working here is about being part of a creative family that wants to make a specific kind of work – full-hearted, human-led, generous work that helps brands put real people first.

Who are we?

We’re a creative studio based in London. 13 full time people work here but we bring in external collaborators on nearly every project.

We’re so lucky to work on some of the most exciting projects out there, with clients that trust us to challenge conventions across sport, tech, health and entertainment. Whether that’s helping Arsenal create the most LGBTQ+ inclusive match in football history. Or making documentaries about sign language for the Wellcome Collection. Or turning billboards across London into a gallery of real Snapchat users’ most relatable Snaps. In short, brands come to us to make original work that feels human, welcoming and full of heart — and brains.

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The role

As a creative most of your time will be spent coming up with concepts for campaigns. As part of this you’ll be expected to:

• Come up with big and original ideas for campaigns
• Turn those ideas into totally unique and effective executions
• Find references to communicate your creative vision
• Create compelling slides that explain, entertain and convince in equal measure
• Present to clients and act as a go-to contact for their creative queries
• Find and brief collaborators such as directors, producers, editors and designers
• Get stuck into production and attend shoots
• Oversee post-production specialists

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Who we’re looking for

We’re a unique place to work and we carefully curate the clients and projects we take on. We’re the same with our people.

Below we’ve listed out the skills, experience and personal qualities we think you’ll need to fly here. We’re really excited to find the right person, so please have a read and ensure this sounds like the right fit. We’ll have other roles in the future so please think before you apply! And no ChatGPT please. We can tell. 

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Skills

‍Conceptual flair: 

First things first, you’ll be able to come up with original and memorable ideas for campaigns. Again and again. And we mean true ideas — the big, expansive and energising kind that can power campaigns across multiple touch points and that anyone can understand.

‍Exceptional written communication: 

You’ll be able to articulate your ideas with clarity and brevity, ideally in a way that feels uniquely you too. 

‍Next-level presentation skills:

We love slides and you’ll need an ability to tell a memorable and engaging story across Keynote, Google and PowerPoint. It sounds dry, but it really matters here.

An eye for depth (not just detail): 

We’re hiring this role to help us elevate our work and take on bigger briefs. You need to be willing to challenge others constructively and kindly, all in service of pushing our craft from good to outstanding – whether that’s because the slides are ugly, or because a colour grade just isn’t quite right. Similarly, you’ll need to do more than hide behind a laptop screen. Here we think the best ideas are found in unexpected places, places that take a different path to reach than the obvious route.

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Experience

‍Agency experience: 

You’ll have experience working at an agency. Maybe you have 3+ years in the bag. But maybe not. Bonus points if you’re coming from, or have worked at, an independent.

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Production experience: 

You need to be comfortable on set, with some understanding of different video and stills production roles. We are half a creative agency, half a production company. If you don’t like making things you’ll be bored.

You

• We’re looking for a colleague who finds inspiration in a huge variety of sources of culture and creativity. We want to know what you care about. High-brow and low-brow. If you’re interested in things, we’re interested in you.
• We need you to be able to look past trends to find relevance that resonates a bit more deeply. Cool things are great, but superficiality isn’t. You’ll know the difference.
• You’ll succeed here if you’re curious about people and real stories. Especially the kind from beyond the mainstream. 
• You’ll be able to connect with other people, including those with very different life experiences. We are always going out into the street to speak to real people, finding collaborators from unexpected sources, and no one here is afraid to get first hand with the audience to find a unique insight.
• Of course, you’ll be a team player, through and through, and through again. You’ll need to be there for those you work with. They’ll be there for you.