Mid-Senior Creative (Freelance)

Role: Mid - Senior Creative - ideas & concepts (freelance)

Team: Creative

Reporting To: Creative Director

Reports: None

Schedule: 2 day in office (Haggerston)

Location: Hybrid

ABOUT WARM STREET

From the underground to brand land, Warm Street are a next generation agency driving business growth through music and culture. We secure deep engagement with valuable communities online, putting our clients ahead of the crowd. Working with the likes of Netflix, NIKE, Ray-Ban, Ballantine’s, Wray & Nephew, Magnum we are blessed to work with the boldest brands about.

Shout us if you want to sack off prehistoric ad agencies.....Warm Street is built for a new world... and we use new methods. Working with us might feel different, but you’ll be ahead of the crowd, working with diverse minds and doing fun work.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Midweight to Senior Creative to join our ever-growing freelance network. This role provides an opportunity to work closely with strategists, account teams and our creative director to help execute and develop innovative, music-led projects for high profile brands.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

A creative with experience in both music culture and big brand campaigns, and who wants to work within the intersection of the two. You will have a strong background in content, social and creating campaigns. Your creative thinking will be informed by culture, and how brands activate in culture, alongside being able to bring music, and culture first thinking into your creative practice. You’ll be competent and confident pitching and running pitches as a creative.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

A typical project might involve you developing ideas for the likes of Ballantine’s, Wray & Nephew, Netflix and New Business pitches. Here’s a bit more detail on your responsibilities…

IDEAS

• Coming up with innovative and culturally attuned ideas in response to briefs

• Refining existing ideas, pushing them forward and thinking of new ways to activate them

• Working independently and with Creative Director to create compelling and effective music-led content for brands

EXECUTION

• Confidently presenting ideas to the Creative Director, wider team and client with intelligent rationale

• Developing compelling treatments and narratives, directing shoots with both a cultural and brand led approach

• Working with strategists, culture managers, designers and editors to refine and bring creative ideas to life, from pre to post production.

EXPERTISE

• Being full of references from the music world - be it music videos, social media content or interesting live activations

• Providing expertise in cultural partners and collaborations within the music world

• Providing expertise in conceptual digital thinking and how to make things ‘social first’

• An interest in tech/the future and the desire to make world class work

REQUIREMENTS

• Reliable, energetic & as excited about music-led ideas as we are

• 6+ years experience at a creative/social/music marketing agency and a portfolio full of music-led work.

• An enthusiastic music-head with an in-depth understanding of contemporary culture

• Ability to work in a fast pace, high growth agency environment

OUR VALUES

We’re not here to coast along with the traditional marketing industry model, we want to change the face of culture, do things no-one else will take a risk on and push our clients to positively impact people’s lives. We want to make a big impact and this includes improving the diversity of our agency family, with representation at every level, and no more ASSUMPTIONS. We are a purpose driven company, and actively involve our team in defining how we can better support the cultures and communities we work with.