Careers

We're looking for a Senior Brand Strategist to join our team. Someone who lives and breathes branding, combining sharp strategic thinking with a deep curiosity for culture, consumers, and what’s next. You'll be the driving force behind the brand strategy, inspiring both clients and creatives with fresh perspectives and future-facing ideas that push brands forward.

Experience

• You have at least 4-5 years of experience working within an agency or brand environment
• You can effortlessly manage multiple projects simultaneously over a mix of clients and sectors
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit and are confident working on your own or as well as collaborating with other designers, copywriters and strategists

Capabilities

• Brand-first mindset – You live and breathe branding, with a deep understanding of how brands connect with people and shape culture.
• Clear strategic thinking – Able to distil complexity into compelling, actionable brand strategies.
• Curious about people – Intrigued by consumer behaviour, able to analyse motivations and cultural shifts to inform brand direction.
• Future-focused – Excited about helping brands get future-ready by identifying emerging opportunities through trend forecasting and category analysis.
• Creative and conceptual – A strong creative thinker who can bring fresh perspectives to brand challenges and collaborate closely with designers and strategists.
• Strong research skills – Experience conducting primary research, analysing consumer insights, and working with semioticians to decode category codes and shifts.
• Excellent copywriting skills – Able to craft sharp, engaging, and strategically sound messaging for presentations, reports, and client communication.
• Confident communicator – Comfortable presenting ideas to clients and internal teams, articulating strategic thinking with clarity and conviction.

About You

• You have a good work ethic
• You have multiple strings to your bow
• You have good communication skills
• You have an eye for detail
• An entrepreneurial spirit
• You love working collaboratively with designers, developers and fellow strategists

What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Improved workplace pension
• Monthly well-being allowance
• 23 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Your Birthday off and a £100 present
• Hybrid working: working remotely for 2 days per week, with the other 3 being based in our Manchester studio
• We have core working hours but start and finish times are flexible to suit you
• Learning and development programs individual to you
• Free refreshments, breakfast and fruit are provided in the office all week
• Regular team building socials and meals out

Key responsibilities

• Generating interesting creative work with strong conceptual and strategic foundations
• Focused on maintaining an exceptional level of craft and attention to detail
• Taking responsibility to hit deadlines and being aware of timings.
• Supporting the Creative Director to ensure that work gets delivered on time to a high standard
• Effectively distilling and communicating direction to the team after client feedback or after internal design review
• Creating high quality presentations of creative work for internal and external use
• Collaborating with client teams, motion and development to build a positive working relationship

Skills and experience

• Broad experience - You’ll have at least 2 years of industry experience, with proven skills and competencies. Must have a passion for branding, design and digital
• Excellent varied portfolio - Work should demonstrate concept-driven design, superior execution, show experimentation, versatility, strategic thinking and energy. Significant brand identity and digital projects within the industry. You should have worked across both print and digital executions
• People skills - Comfortable working as a team and confident to take part in workshops and interactions with clients
• Excellent presenter - Excellent communication and presentation skills. Able to put an attractive and compelling presentation together and present it
• Broad tool-kit - High level of skill in Adobe CC (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD) and Figma
• Bonus tool-kit - Experience in 3D, animation, coding and interaction design is a bonus. An understanding of peripheral design processes (i.e. art direction and film/stills production, print production) would also be a bonus.

Your personality

• A good work ethic
• Passionate about branding, design, motion and digital
• Flexible and adaptable to challenges
• Multi-disciplined
• Curious and are eager to learn
• Collaborative and a team player
• Good communication and organisational skills

What we offer

• £27,000 - £32,000 per annum. Based on experience
• Yearly bonus scheme
• Improved workplace pension
• Monthly well-being allowance
• 23 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Your Birthday off and a £100 present
• Hybrid working: The team work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be based in our Manchester studio
• Learning and development programs individual to you
• Free refreshments, breakfast and fruit are provided in the office
• Regular team building socials and meals out

Key responsibilities

• Building relationships with and becoming the direct contact for a range of clients, responding with speed and assurance to most internal and external requests
• Supporting the Client Services Director on the management of large clients and projects
• Proactively join the dots across an account, identify potential opportunities, offering solutions whilst also being open and receptive to the contribution of others
• Be accountable for the project commercials, be able to accurately scope work and deliver your projects on time and on budget
• Helping the rest of the client services team to manage the studio of brand, digital and motion designers and also developers

Experience

• You have at least 3 years of experience across several types of projects
• You can effortlessly manage multiple projects simultaneously over a mix of clients and sectors
• You are confident working on your own as well as reporting into a Client Services Director or alongside another client services team member

Capabilities

• Solid project management skills with expertise in budgeting, revenue forecasting, scheduling and building client relationships
• Someone who can balance the budget with the big picture and contribute to the strategic and creative conversation
• Effectively distilling and communicating direction to the team after client feedback or after internal design review
• Highly collaborative, able to work well with other Client Service team members, strategists, designers, developers and clients
• Able to balance reactive and proactive workloads, identify problems and find appropriate solutions but not afraid to ask for help
• Excellent attention to detail

Your personality

• A good work ethic
• Good communication and organisational skills
• Passionate about branding, design, motion and digital
• Flexible and adaptable to challenges
• An entrepreneurial spirit
• A good reader of the room

What we offer

• £28,000 - £36,000. Based on experience
• Yearly bonus scheme
• Improved workplace pension
• Monthly well-being allowance
• 23 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Your Birthday off and a £100 present
• Hybrid working: working remotely for 2 days per week, with the other 3 being based in our Manchester studio
• We have core working hours but start and finish times are flexible to suit you
• Learning and development programs individual to you
• Free refreshments, breakfast and fruit are provided in the office all week
• Regular team building socials and meals out