Midweight Creative (6 Month FTC)

We make brands unskippable.  

Through our work with clients including... [deep breath] Adobe, Greggs, Tombola, Disney+, Prime Video, Spotify, YouTube, Microsoft, Kellogg’s, HSBC, John Lewis, Have I Got News For You, Motorway, Channel 4 and Amazon Alexa, we add value, not noise.  

We put creativity at the heart of everything we do. From social strategy, social creative, social production, social amplification and social effectiveness, we deliver expertise and cultural relevance. On social.   

Still reading? Great. It’s only been three short paragraphs. And we’d love to hear about you... 

The role

As a Midweight Creative within the creative department at That Lot, you’ll be brilliant conceptual thinker and maker helping us make Work That Slaps^TM for your favourite UK brands.

This will include:

• Concepting and developing campaign and banging owned social ideas.
• Being ultra-reactive to culture, knowing where to sniff out the best bits to react to, hitting the post button before any other brand.
• Being able to present your work in a clear and engaging way, especially in pitches.
• Having bags of initiative, tenacity and curiosity.
• The ability to craft ideas and communicate them effectively.
• Creator-level abilities that go beyond traditional advertising art direction or design.
• An instinct for slick, unforgettable decks.
  
  

Who we’d love to meet

We’re looking for a tenacious creative with a keen eye for cutting edge social. Snip. Snip. Social first, but not social only. You’ll want to set internet culture alight. You can see an idea through from its embryonic state to a full blown, award-winning campaign that will stop people in their tracks. This is what we call Work That Slaps^TM. Oh, Work that Slaps^TM is work that’s attention-grabbing, memorable and unexpected – all good slaps are made of this. It’s what we need to do to get our content to stand out on social.

You understand the need for clear, simple thought, and how to articulate ideas in the most compelling and convincing way.

You’ll be fiercely ambitious, energetic, fun to work with and practice radical optimism.

• Internet culture obsessed
• A native social user with creator-level capabilities that goes beyond traditional advertising art direction.
• You might be a writer, you might be an art director – you might be a bit of both.
• A big idea girlie. You love them.
• You will be happy to work on your own and with the team.
• You will have a proven ability to use culture to inspire your ideas
• Confident in Powerpoint, Adobe Suite etc.
• A breadth of creative knowledge with the ability to produce useful visual references and predict social and creative trends.
• A team player who cares about the growth and development of the agency.

A little about the team

Creatives at That Lot are the life and soul of our agency. We’re a small but mighty multidisciplinary team -- made up of skilled storytellers, mischief makers and conceptual animals working to bring big ideas to the small screen for some of the most loved brands in the UK.

Our new Executive Creative Director is looking for tenacious and curious people to make work that makes the rest of the industry say “I wish I’d made that”.

Perks of the job.

We also offer several perks, including the following:

• 25 days holiday + 2 extra days at Christmas + 2 annual days for volunteering
• Flexible working, with 2 in-office days encouraged
• Employee wellbeing perks including things like; EAP mental health support, free membership to both Headspace meditation and Perkbox
• Discounted gym membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension scheme
• Access to health insurance

Diversity & Inclusion

That Lot is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability status

Note from the talent team: 

 At Weber Shandwick we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. 

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