283 Creative Director jobs in the United Kingdom

We're searching for a bold, hands-on Creative Director to own the brand and creative vision for a high-growth consumer business. This is a chance for a Creative Director to shape how a market-leading product is seen, felt, and experienced - from high-performing ads that drive growth to storytelling that builds long-term brand equity.

This is not a passive role. As Creative Director , you'll set the tone for how the brand shows up visually and narratively, leading the charge on creative that's not just compelling, but commercially effective. Working with a mix of in-house talent, freelance creators, and production partners, you'll be at the heart of bringing fresh, impactful content to life across paid channels, social platforms, and brand campaigns.

• Own the creative direction across all channels, ensuring visual consistency and measurable impact.

• Develop high-performing creative for paid media (Meta, YouTube, TikTok, Google) and social content that drives engagement and conversions.

• Blend brand storytelling with performance-driven design, from concept to final cut.

• Lead and grow a creative team, fostering talent, setting standards, and building scalable processes.

• Partner closely with performance marketing to test, iterate, and optimise assets for ROI.

• 8+ years in a senior creative role, ideally within a DTC or high-growth consumer brand.

• Proven experience delivering high-converting performance creative at scale, including international

• Strong portfolio of brand campaigns, storytelling formats, and content that drives measurable results, preferably in a premium price point category.

• Confident directing large-scale productions and agile, creator-led shoots.

• Inspirational leader with operational know how to build and scale a creative function.

If you're a Creative Director who thrives on both big-picture vision and commercial results, we'd love to hear from you. This is the ideal move for a Creative Director ready to lead a growing brand into its next exciting chapter.

Creative Director | Hybrid/Southampton | Scale Up DTC Brand | Competitive Basic + Benefits

We're searching for a bold, hands-on Creative Director to own the brand and creative vision for a high-growth consumer business. This is a chance for a Creative Director to shape how a market-leading product is seen, felt, and experienced - from high-performing ads that drive growth to storytelling that builds long-term brand equity.

This is not a passive role. As Creative Director , you'll set the tone for how the brand shows up visually and narratively, leading the charge on creative that's not just compelling, but commercially effective. Working with a mix of in-house talent, freelance creators, and production partners, you'll be at the heart of bringing fresh, impactful content to life across paid channels, social platforms, and brand campaigns.

• Own the creative direction across all channels, ensuring visual consistency and measurable impact.

• Develop high-performing creative for paid media (Meta, YouTube, TikTok, Google) and social content that drives engagement and conversions.

• Blend brand storytelling with performance-driven design, from concept to final cut.

• Lead and grow a creative team, fostering talent, setting standards, and building scalable processes.

• Partner closely with performance marketing to test, iterate, and optimise assets for ROI.

• 8+ years in a senior creative role, ideally within a DTC or high-growth consumer brand.

• Proven experience delivering high-converting performance creative at scale, including international

• Strong portfolio of brand campaigns, storytelling formats, and content that drives measurable results, preferably in a premium price point category.

• Confident directing large-scale productions and agile, creator-led shoots.

• Inspirational leader with operational know how to build and scale a creative function.

If you're a Creative Director who thrives on both big-picture vision and commercial results, we'd love to hear from you. This is the ideal move for a Creative Director ready to lead a growing brand into its next exciting chapter.

Creative Director | Hybrid/Southampton | Scale Up DTC Brand | Competitive Basic + Benefits

We're searching for a bold, hands-on Creative Director to own the brand and creative vision for a high-growth consumer business. This is a chance for a Creative Director to shape how a market-leading product is seen, felt, and experienced - from high-performing ads that drive growth to storytelling that builds long-term brand equity.

This is not a passive role. As Creative Director , you'll set the tone for how the brand shows up visually and narratively, leading the charge on creative that's not just compelling, but commercially effective. Working with a mix of in-house talent, freelance creators, and production partners, you'll be at the heart of bringing fresh, impactful content to life across paid channels, social platforms, and brand campaigns.

• Own the creative direction across all channels, ensuring visual consistency and measurable impact.

• Develop high-performing creative for paid media (Meta, YouTube, TikTok, Google) and social content that drives engagement and conversions.

• Blend brand storytelling with performance-driven design, from concept to final cut.

• Lead and grow a creative team, fostering talent, setting standards, and building scalable processes.

• Partner closely with performance marketing to test, iterate, and optimise assets for ROI.

• 8+ years in a senior creative role, ideally within a DTC or high-growth consumer brand.

• Proven experience delivering high-converting performance creative at scale, including international

• Strong portfolio of brand campaigns, storytelling formats, and content that drives measurable results, preferably in a premium price point category.

• Confident directing large-scale productions and agile, creator-led shoots.

• Inspirational leader with operational know how to build and scale a creative function.

If you're a Creative Director who thrives on both big-picture vision and commercial results, we'd love to hear from you. This is the ideal move for a Creative Director ready to lead a growing brand into its next exciting chapter.

Advancing People Recruitment Specialists are now recruiting for a Creative Director to work for a worldwide, market leading Technology Company (Saas) who have an office in Hungerford, Berkshire.

We are looking for an experienced Creative Director to lead the visual transformation of our client's brand across all digital surfaces. The role has a primary focus on the website, campaigns, landing pages, and product marketing whilst also leading a team.

If successful you will unify their creative system, elevate our client's visual storytelling, and ensure every touchpoint is designed to convert.

Our client provides specialist software, services and support to deliver fully integrated trading and business management solutions. With a wide range of clients including wholesalers, distributors, merchants and retailers from small traders to multinational enterprises. As their Creative Director you will have global reach with offices in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Kenya and North America.

If successful, this role is based in Hungerford, Berkshire with good flexibility to also work from home / remotely.

This role will also give someone the opportunity to work for a huge Private Equity backed Software Company (SaaS)

Key Responsibilities:

• Design Leadership: Own and evolve the brand's visual identity across digital platforms, marketing campaigns, product narratives, and global web presence.
• Website Experience: Lead the UX/UI design for our clients regional sites to improve conversion, engagement, and clarity.
• Creative Direction: Translate business and marketing strategy into high-quality creative output that delivers results.
• Design Ops: Set up scalable design processes, systems, and templates to support regional marketing teams and performance marketers.
• Collaboration: Work closely with marketing leadership, content, product marketing, web development, and agencies to execute fast-moving creative needs.
• Design Quality: Provide hands-on direction for designers, freelancers, and agency partners to ensure pixel-perfect delivery.
• Customer Experience: Guide how brand, content, and design work together to create delightful, conversion-focused customer journeys.

Person Specification:

• Extensive experience in a senior design, brand, or creative leadership role (ideally in B2B SaaS, fintech, or software)
• A strong portfolio showcasing multi-format digital work (web, performance creative, product marketing, landing pages, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to create and execute design systems across large websites and multi-region brands
• Fluency in UX principles , wireframing, prototyping, and conversion-driven design
• Experience managing freelancers, agencies, or internal teams
• Proficiency in tools like Figma, Webflow (bonus), Adobe Creative Suite, or similar

Be the creative mind behind one of the biggest B2B brand transformations this year

This is a full-time permanent position offering an attractive annual salary of 90,000 + 8.5k Car Allowance + 5% & Benefits

Advancing People - Recruitment Sales Specialists

Advancing People Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer and acts as both an Employment Business and Employment Agency.

Creative Director

Location: Beijing, China (Full-time, 12-month renewable contract)

Eligibility: Open exclusively to foreign passport holders

About CGTN and the Role

CGTN is a global media organization committed to delivering authoritative news and analysis to a worldwide audience through TV, mobile, and digital platforms. Based in Beijing, the Creative Director will lead the Packaging Team’s visual storytelling and creative vision—driving brand excellence and narrative impact across CGTN’s global output.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and define the creative direction aligned with CGTN’s visual identity and international standards.

• Oversee end-to-end project development—from conceptualization and scripting to final execution.

• Track and analyze global media and branding trends, infusing fresh thinking and innovation into our workflow.

• Inspire, manage, and develop a diverse team of designers and motion artists in a dynamic cross-cultural environment.

• Collaborate closely with editorial, technical, and external teams to ensure timely and high-quality output.

• Provide strategic creative direction for major international events.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Art, Visual Communication, Advertising, or related fields.

• Minimum 3 years in a senior creative role—preferably as Creative Director in an international media setting.

• Proven portfolio of high-impact, internationally recognized projects; industry awards are a strong plus (e.g., Promax, Red Dot, Cannes Lions).

• Demonstrated expertise across media types including promotional videos, studio design, graphic/motion packaging.

• Strong understanding of global creative trends and ability to adapt them within cross-cultural contexts.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to convey vision and align stakeholders.

How to Apply

Send your CV and portfolio to:

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis—early applications are strongly encouraged.

Who We Are

Fabric Social is the maverick of social agencies. We specialise in building brands through best-in-class social content, trend-first creative, and community-first thinking. We’re not just about reach; we’re about resonance. We nourish communities, creating social ecosystems that pull audiences in, not just push content out. And now, we’re looking for a Creative Director to help lead the charge.

The Role

As our Creative Director, you’ll set the bar for social-first ideas. You’ll lead and inspire a team of world-class creatives, shaping work that drives culture, fuels conversation, and makes brands impossible to ignore. You’re the agency’s creative heartbeat and cultural radar, spotting what matters before it trends and turning it into work that stops thumbs, earns attention, and delivers impact.

But this isn’t just about the output. It’s about the people behind it. You’ll lead the team as much as the work - mentoring, challenging, coaching, and creating the conditions where bold ideas thrive. You’ll give feedback that builds both craft and confidence, share your thinking generously, and foster a culture where ambition meets belonging.

This role is as much about influence as it is about inspiration . You bring creative firepower, strategic sharpness, commercial awareness, and human leadership together in one powerful package, setting the pace not just for the agency, but for the industry.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Creative Leadership: Setting the creative direction for Fabric Social, ensuring our work is consistently fresh, fearless, and culturally tapped-in.
• Idea Generation: Leading the development of big, social-first creative concepts that resonate across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube etc. as well as emerging platforms.
• Team Management: Inspiring and mentoring a team of content creators and creatives to produce thumb-stopping work.
• Client Collaboration: Partnering with brands to push creative boundaries, translating their vision into social content that people actually care about.
• Trendspotting & Cultural Insight: Keeping Fabric Social ahead of the game, identifying shifts in culture, platform behavior, and internet phenomena before they go mainstream.
• Executional Excellence: Overseeing the creation of high-quality social content, from campaign ideation to final delivery, ensuring platform-native execution.
• Strategic Thinking: Working closely with strategy and community teams to make sure creative doesn’t just look good - it works.
• Communication & Persuasion: Clearly articulating ideas, selling concepts to clients, and rallying both internal teams and external stakeholders around bold creative visions.
• New Business & Pitch Leadership: Supporting and occasionally leading new business pitches from a creative perspective - crafting standout concepts, building compelling decks, and confidently selling ideas to prospective clients.

What We’re Looking For

• A Social-First Creative Mind. You live and breathe social. You instinctively know what will pop on a feed and why.
• A Visionary. You don’t just follow trends - you want to make them. You bring a fresh perspective to social creativity.
• A Natural Leader. You’ve led creative teams before and know how to get the best out of people.
• A Strong Storyteller. Whether it’s a two-second TikTok hook or a full campaign narrative, you know how to craft compelling brand stories.
• A Platform Expert. You understand the nuances of each social platform, from algorithmic quirks to cultural communities.
• A Hands-On Doer. You’re not just here to direct; you’re happy to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in.
• An Agency Pro. Experience working at a social-first or creative agency, leading work for major brands.

What You’ll Get

• The chance to help define the creative vision of a fast-growing, rule-breaking social agency.
• A seat at the table, working with brands that want to push boundaries in social.
• A culture that champions creativity, collaboration, and genuinely great work.
• A team of mavericks, trendsetters, and cultural obsessives who love what they do.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

If you’re ready to shape the future of social creativity, let’s talk.

Role: Creative Director

Location: Remote

Salary: Up to £70k, depending on experience

Type: Permanent

Are you a visionary creative leader with strategic know-how and a passion for full-funnel marketing? Our client is a fast-growing creative marketing agency specialising in branding, digital marketing, content, social, paid media, design, data and more. With offices in Milton Keynes (and close links into London), their team delivers bold creative and data-driven work that accelerates business growth for SMEs and larger brands across the UK and beyond. As they scale their creative ambitions, they’re looking for a Creative Director to shape and lead their creative vision.

In this pivotal role, you will own the creative strategy for their client portfolio and internal brand, steering campaigns across channels including brand identity, social content, web design, video, digital ads, and 3D/graphic design. You’ll partner closely with the Strategy Director, Content and Paid teams, and senior management to generate work that is visually compelling, strategically grounded, and performance-focused. You’ll mentor midweight and senior creatives, enabling them to grow, innovate, and deliver best-in-class work aligned with our standards of excellence.

You’ll lead creative output that doesn’t just look good but converts — guiding customer journeys from curiosity to conversion through immersive visuals, clear user experience, and purposeful brand storytelling. Your direction will span everything from concept and storyboarding to final execution, ensuring design stays on brief, on brand, and on strategy You’ll help set visual tone across client projects and our own marketing presence (including our website, social channels, thought-leadership assets, and portfolio).

The ideal Creative Director will have:

· A leader with a proven record in agency environments, ideally with experience delivering work across branding, digital content, advertising, and web.

· Strong conceptual thinking balanced with practical design sensitivity, versed in creative processes from ideation to delivery.

· Excellent communications skills—both visual (design critique, creative briefs) and verbal (client presentations, internal collaboration).

· Experience using creative direction to deliver measurable results—creative that drives engagement, leads, and growth.

· Track record of mentoring teams, fostering growth, and cultivating a collaborative environment where design excellence thrives.

· Passion for our clients full-funnel, data-informed approach and commitment to creative storytelling that moves people and builds brands.

What you'll do:

· Set creative vision and standards across client campaigns and internal content, ensuring consistency with brand strategy.

· Oversee concept development, creative execution, and post-project creative reviews.

· Lead creative brainstorming sessions, pitch development, and innovation workshops.

· Provide senior feedback, mentoring, and professional development for the creative team.

· Collaborate with strategy, content, media and analytics functions to align creative with client objectives and campaign performance

Creative Director

Location: Beijing, China (Full-time, 12-month renewable contract)

Eligibility: Open exclusively to foreign passport holders

About CGTN and the Role

CGTN is a global media organization committed to delivering authoritative news and analysis to a worldwide audience through TV, mobile, and digital platforms. Based in Beijing, the Creative Director will lead the Packaging Team’s visual storytelling and creative vision—driving brand excellence and narrative impact across CGTN’s global output.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and define the creative direction aligned with CGTN’s visual identity and international standards.

• Oversee end-to-end project development—from conceptualization and scripting to final execution.

• Track and analyze global media and branding trends, infusing fresh thinking and innovation into our workflow.

• Inspire, manage, and develop a diverse team of designers and motion artists in a dynamic cross-cultural environment.

• Collaborate closely with editorial, technical, and external teams to ensure timely and high-quality output.

• Provide strategic creative direction for major international events.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Art, Visual Communication, Advertising, or related fields.

• Minimum 3 years in a senior creative role—preferably as Creative Director in an international media setting.

• Proven portfolio of high-impact, internationally recognized projects; industry awards are a strong plus (e.g., Promax, Red Dot, Cannes Lions).

• Demonstrated expertise across media types including promotional videos, studio design, graphic/motion packaging.

• Strong understanding of global creative trends and ability to adapt them within cross-cultural contexts.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to convey vision and align stakeholders.

How to Apply

Send your CV and portfolio to:

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis—early applications are strongly encouraged.

Who We Are

Fabric Social is the maverick of social agencies. We specialise in building brands through best-in-class social content, trend-first creative, and community-first thinking. We’re not just about reach; we’re about resonance. We nourish communities, creating social ecosystems that pull audiences in, not just push content out. And now, we’re looking for a Creative Director to help lead the charge.

The Role

As our Creative Director, you’ll set the bar for social-first ideas. You’ll lead and inspire a team of world-class creatives, shaping work that drives culture, fuels conversation, and makes brands impossible to ignore. You’re the agency’s creative heartbeat and cultural radar, spotting what matters before it trends and turning it into work that stops thumbs, earns attention, and delivers impact.

But this isn’t just about the output. It’s about the people behind it. You’ll lead the team as much as the work - mentoring, challenging, coaching, and creating the conditions where bold ideas thrive. You’ll give feedback that builds both craft and confidence, share your thinking generously, and foster a culture where ambition meets belonging.

This role is as much about influence as it is about inspiration . You bring creative firepower, strategic sharpness, commercial awareness, and human leadership together in one powerful package, setting the pace not just for the agency, but for the industry.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Creative Leadership: Setting the creative direction for Fabric Social, ensuring our work is consistently fresh, fearless, and culturally tapped-in.
• Idea Generation: Leading the development of big, social-first creative concepts that resonate across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube etc. as well as emerging platforms.
• Team Management: Inspiring and mentoring a team of content creators and creatives to produce thumb-stopping work.
• Client Collaboration: Partnering with brands to push creative boundaries, translating their vision into social content that people actually care about.
• Trendspotting & Cultural Insight: Keeping Fabric Social ahead of the game, identifying shifts in culture, platform behavior, and internet phenomena before they go mainstream.
• Executional Excellence: Overseeing the creation of high-quality social content, from campaign ideation to final delivery, ensuring platform-native execution.
• Strategic Thinking: Working closely with strategy and community teams to make sure creative doesn’t just look good - it works.
• Communication & Persuasion: Clearly articulating ideas, selling concepts to clients, and rallying both internal teams and external stakeholders around bold creative visions.
• New Business & Pitch Leadership: Supporting and occasionally leading new business pitches from a creative perspective - crafting standout concepts, building compelling decks, and confidently selling ideas to prospective clients.

What We’re Looking For

• A Social-First Creative Mind. You live and breathe social. You instinctively know what will pop on a feed and why.
• A Visionary. You don’t just follow trends - you want to make them. You bring a fresh perspective to social creativity.
• A Natural Leader. You’ve led creative teams before and know how to get the best out of people.
• A Strong Storyteller. Whether it’s a two-second TikTok hook or a full campaign narrative, you know how to craft compelling brand stories.
• A Platform Expert. You understand the nuances of each social platform, from algorithmic quirks to cultural communities.
• A Hands-On Doer. You’re not just here to direct; you’re happy to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in.
• An Agency Pro. Experience working at a social-first or creative agency, leading work for major brands.

What You’ll Get

• The chance to help define the creative vision of a fast-growing, rule-breaking social agency.
• A seat at the table, working with brands that want to push boundaries in social.
• A culture that champions creativity, collaboration, and genuinely great work.
• A team of mavericks, trendsetters, and cultural obsessives who love what they do.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

If you’re ready to shape the future of social creativity, let’s talk.