Creative Director, Entertainment - Sky Creative United Kingdom
Sky
Full Time
United Kingdom
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.
The Creative Director of Entertainment at Sky Creative will have a pivotal role in developing and leading the creative vision for campaigns and key art across all Sky original dramas, comedies, and documentaries. This individual will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Sky Studios, marketing, commissioning, and PR to develop creative campaigns that drive viewer engagement and build our brand.
Reporting into the Executive Creative Director for Advertising, the successful candidate will lead a multidisciplinary team on some of our most important Entertainment campaigns at Sky. You will have creative oversight of a crucial piece of Sky business and line management of several creatives.
What you’ll do:
- Develop and lead the creative vision for Entertainment campaigns across all original content on Sky.
- Provide effective creative direction across all channels and ensure the highest standards are always maintained.
- Be a brand guardian, ensuring work conforms to our Sky Master brand values.
- Provide inspiring leadership to team of creatives and designers to ensure creative excellence across all campaign deliverables.
- Present work to agency, clients and partners.
- Oversee entire creative process from ideation, through to production, shoots, and postproduction.
What you’ll bring:
- A history of creating outstanding advertising and TTL campaigns where the idea is key; able to work 360 with a sound knowledge of production, shoots, and postproduction.
- Proven experience in people management, mentoring and team leadership.
- Excellent strategic and conceptual skills.
- Strong copywriting and/or art direction, with a flair for execution and an eye for detail.
- Outstanding presentation skills, able to hold a room and confident in presenting at senior level.
- Ability to take and work with criticism in a positive, pragmatic way.
- A love of TV!
Team Overview
Sky Creative is Sky’s European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions, Broadcast Creative and Digital Design for multiple partners across our European Markets.
From rebranding Sky Sports to designing key art and creating large-scale ATL campaigns for Sky’s commissions and original productions, we are uniquely placed to offer our people a huge range of exciting and diverse opportunities.
We believe that an in-house agency is the best of both worlds. A great portfolio of work with unrivalled proximity to our clients, programme makers and commissioners alike. We are passionate about what we do and share first-hand in the success of the brands, shows and content we help create, promote and market.
We’re committed to delivering brilliant creative, made by people that love what they do.
The rewards:
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Where you’ll work:
Osterley
Our Osterley campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers.
On campus you’ll find six subsidised restaurants and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Inclusion:
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.
At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.
And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.
Sky
careers.sky.com
Isleworth, United Kingdom
Dana Strong
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Broadcast Media
1989
