Creative Lead

FARFETCH exists for the love of fashion. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers. We're a positive platform for good, bringing together an incredible creative community made up by our people, our partners and our customers. This community is at the heart of our business success. We welcome differences, empower individuality and celebrate diverse skills and perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We are FARFETCH for All.

BRAND

We're a diverse team of Brand marketing professionals, spanning artistic and strategic expertise in luxury fashion. We're driven to amaze our global community of customers through our creative, revolutionary spirit and collaborative style.

LONDON

Our office is located in Old Street, London's tech hub. Our open-plan space is ideal for collaborative working. When you're not doing what's never been done, you can enjoy a team lunch on our large outdoor terrace, or join a yoga class in our dedicated studio.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a talented, creative lead to join our growing Creative and Editorial team. Reporting into the Head of Creative, you will support on art direction and ideation for a range of projects, manage and support the team to deliver all paid creative output to the paid media, affiliates, APP and CRM teams in the business. Aiding the Head of Creative, ensuring that this content is on-brand and delivered on time. You will be a strong creative with ideas who also can manage a team to deliver across multiple outputs, with particular focus on paid and social creative.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Oversee, handle and manage all paid creative output across paid media and affiliates.
• Work with our team of designers to design and artwork creative advertising placements across all channels, testing new creatives and designs
• Deliver video advertising using campaign footage and stills in a range of formats and languages. 
• Work closely with the Paid Media, Affiliates, Copy and linguistics teams to ensure briefs are managed and delivered according to relevant deadlines.
• Aid the Head of Creative to manage and support a team of designers working across all creative editorial output for the business
• Working closely with the Social Media Manager to lead on social specific content daily, testing new formats and creative output. 
• Support the Head of Creative and Social Media Manager on casting of talent, ideating around potential collaborators for social specific and shoot/content moments.
• Support the Head of Creative with art direction and concepts for projects (particularly with a social/paid understanding) and attend shoots where needed.
• Lead on Browns creative output with the support of designers
• Work closely with our creative teams in Porto to oversee content briefs shot by in-house photographers in their team

WHO YOU ARE

• You have extensive experience in digital design experience working in a busy agency or ecommerce environment
• You will have experience in Art Direction and concepting/moodboarding for adhoc projects and partnerships
• Strong, expert skills in Sketch, Figma, After Effects and Creative Suite (particularly Photoshop and After Effects)
• Strong management and organisation skills, as well as time management skills.
• Strong understanding of typography, colour and layout
• Ability and experience in managing designers and delegating projects and priorities as needed
• You’ll be tapped into social trends and global talent/creators

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT & SCAM DISCLAIMER

• EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT- Farfetch is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. 




• SCAM DISCLAIMER- It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activities involving individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent Farfetch in order to attract candidates to a SCAM. Please be aware that Farfetch does not conduct recruitment processes through messaging apps or any unofficial communication channels, other than our official careers website. Additionally, Farfetch will never ask candidates for any form of payment during the recruitment process.