FaceGym

Head of Creative / Creative Lead – FaceGym – London

Reporting into: Global Brand & Marketing Director

 

The Brand:

FaceGym is the first of its kind and a unique facial fitness experience, and is in the confidence-boosting business. Think of us as a complete gym workout for your face. We combine powerful kneading movements with our high-performance skincare, innovative tools and cutting-edge technology to tone and tighten the 40+ forgotten muscles of the face – in our studios, on facegym.com and our digital studio, third-party retailers (Sephora, Selfridges, SAKS, Net-a-Porter to name a few, and many new ones to come), and at home.  We are based in central London, working across the UK & USA, with new markets to launch soon!

 

Who We’re Looking For:

The Creative Lead will be a self-motivator with lots of enthusiasm, open communication and will be a key contributor leading high visibility projects.   

 

The candidate should have experience in marketing and brand design with a digital and social-first mindset. Experience managing a team of designers in a fast-paced, reactive, busy studio environment and working with senior leadership is essential. They should have a ‘roll-up-my-sleeves’ attitude and be able to see multiple projects through from conception to production, anticipating roadblocks and being hands-on all whilst leading the creative department. 

 

Key duties and responsibilities:

Responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to;

 

• Creative strategy - set the creative tone and advance the visual aesthetic for FaceGym across branding, digital, social media, digital advertising VM and packaging, balancing BAU tasks alongside bigger vision projects.

• Design - Hands on with the creation of design assets including marketing, new business and client/retail deliverables.  

• Management – Liaise closely with a CSM and Marketing to manage briefs, priorities, approvals and deadlines and look after the daily/weekly plan of the creative team and external freelancers. Help to develop process and utilise workflow platforms to maximise efficiency and ensure successful completion of tasks.

• Creative production - Own the full creative process from brief to production including clarifying creative goals, leading photo and video shoots, managing asset production and coordinating with external production partners.

• Concept and communication - Participate and lead creative brainstorm sessions. Create mood boards and present ideas both visually and verbally to internal and external teams.    

• Own digital creative product – Work with leadership team to define agency digital offering, and deliver best-in-class digital creative.

• Collaboration – Work with leadership and brand strategists to set creative strategy and develop client positioning. 

• Brand stewardship – Bring the brand style to all external/internal touch points. Manage design process for new business and marketing initiatives. Evolve brand guidelines based on existing assets and future objectives.

 

Skills and qualities:

The ideal candidate will have:

 

• Extensive innovative design experience in a design, consulting or advertising firm with multi-industry clients, preferably in the beauty industry. 

• Previous experience managing and developing a team essential. 

• Undergraduate degree (B.F.A.) or equivalent and/or 7 or more years related experience.

• Extensive knowledge of typography, layout, colour theory and creative software including PhotoShop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects, Office, Google Docs. Premiere Pro/Xd/Sketch a bonus.

• Ability to work with multiple departments to ensure high quality, on-brand and consistent output.

• Ability to manage timelines, hit deadlines and pivot schedules when necessary. 

• Excellent verbal and presentation skills to quickly scamp and communicate ideas.

• Strong interpersonal capabilities.

Our Culture:

At FaceGym we work hard to ensure we promote a working culture that is positive, inspirational and truly inclusive; our teams are as diverse as our customers, and it’s this diversity that drives our success. We believe that people perform better when they can be themselves, in a healthy and supportive team environment. 

When coming to work with us at FaceGym, you are joining an amazing company, but you are also joining part of the Family. 

Fun

Audacious

Magic  

Inclusivity 

Love what you do 

You are Important!

 

If these Values mean something to you, and you’d like to work for a Company, where we have fun, are kind to each other and are continuously striving to be the very best – then we want to hear from YOU! 

Our Benefits:

• Great discounts on FaceGym workouts and products

• Enhanced pension

• 25 days holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays 

• Confidential 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme 

 

Only those eligible to work in the UK or have a valid UK work permit/ visa will be considered for the above position.

Thank you for showing an interest in FaceGym – we know there is a lot of choice out there. We aim to respond to everyone who has shown interest in the role, however due to a high number of applications, if you do not hear from us within 10 working days, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.