Job Description
About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.
Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.
Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the brand is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.
About the role
\*\* Please note this is a 12-month FTC**
We are looking to hire a dynamic and creative Art Director to join our in-house Creative Agency.
We believe in disruption, innovation and the application of art and commerce to create the best concepts, big ideas and content creation and execution. You have a deep understanding of brand purpose, beauty, makeup, colour, texture, and products and how to translate them into beautiful assets that’s forms 360 campaigns. The ideal candidate will have experience in creating digital marketing campaigns and driving innovation through creative across all channels.
Reporting to the Head of Creative, 360 Campaigns whilst working alongside the Creative Director of Image. The successful candidate will oversee the visualisation of creative process from concept through to final execution on their projects. Being the point person within the agency across post-production, production, casting, video & motion graphics, colour, design and the digital design team.
With an entrepreneurial spirit, solutions-oriented and collaborative approach, you will work alongside other creatives, the marketing team, digital team, PR and social, as well as help support efforts in our local markets.
As an Art Director you will
- Deliver and inspire award-winning work, really understanding the concept of art & science, leveraging data insights to inform ideas and creativity and execute to highest level throughout.
- Supporting on campaigns, including concepting and visual ideation, creative concepting & shoot execution (including art direction on shoot days), creative post-production delivering content (across web, email, paid/organic social, video) to the highest quality in terms of consistency of execution.
- Overseeing creative of digital marketing assets, collaborating with creative agency and marketing teams.
- Collaborate with the Creative Director, Director of Art, Director of Copy and the Head of Creative on major campaign shoots.
- Manage ongoing art direction of always on campaigns, as well as coordinate with retouching to manage final delivery of visual assets that execution is met to highest level in form of artistry and finished result with a hands-on approach.
- Partner with NPD (New Product Development) and The Pro Artists to understand the NPD as well as core range, to understand the products and how to execute shoots.
- Partner with the marketing team and Creative Directors to contribute to strategic development of a well-defined creative briefs and how to execute them well from a brand POV. Collaborate with teams across NPD, in-store, retail partners, partnerships, local markets and digital product innovation roadmap.
- Stay on top of the latest in beauty, photography, design and postproduction techniques and developments, and successfully apply them to work practices to help improve processes and procedures.
- Generate useful, usable ideas across existing and emerging digital platforms and understand look, feel & intention of fast-paced social creative.
- Ideating campaign extensions with the use of Generative AI within the pre and post-production phases of a campaign.
- Understand the pipeline of projects and campaigns across the business.
Who you will work with
Reporting into the Head of Creative, 360 Campaigns
About you
- Experience working as an Art Director in the beauty or luxury fashion space, with incredible attention to detail.
- Experience on set with models and still life for both stills and video, confident in lightning techniques, angles and on set direction.
- Highly skilled in range of the Adobe Creative Suite (Ideally but not limited to) Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects.
- It is key to show a strong understanding of typography, colour and layout, as well as knowledge of moving image/film processes.
- Experience in, and enthusiasm for, developing creative ideas for 360 campaigns from brief to delivery and beyond.
- Experience on digital marketing campaigns and a keen understanding of evolving digital trends and activations.
- Demonstrated creative success in collaborating with multi-functional teams, including project & campaign planning.
- Experience working closely with, and providing constructive feedback to post production teams, including retouchers, film editors, grade, flame and vfx.
- Confidence in using Generative AI within the pre and post-production phases of a campaign.
- Experience using Dropbox, and project management tools such as Trello with a good housekeeping attitude with regards to filing projects and research
- Ability to work at pace, with a confidently calm demeanour.
- Excellent visual and written presentation skills.
- Affinity for Charlotte Tilbury products and brand.
Charlotte Tilbury is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a global #dreaamteam are key. Even though we have requirements, our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome applicants with more or less experience stated, provided necessary skills can be demonstrated.
Why join us?
- Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves
- We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey
- Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all
- Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues
- Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces
- And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!
At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.
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