Overview
Head of Creative Jobs in Clapham, England, United Kingdom at Hush
Title: Head of Creative
Company: Hush
Location: Clapham, England, United Kingdom
Hush is an ambitious and distinctive fashion brand, with plans to double the business over the next few years. Founded 20 years ago, we are now established as one of the UK’s leading online fashion retailers. We employ around 125 staff in our head office and across 31 John Lewis concessions, creating and selling a beautiful range of women’s clothing and accessories characterised by effortlessness, simplicity and a laidback sense of style. Despite the challenges to the retail industry, Hush has continued grow – and our company culture still reflects our entrepreneurial roots and relaxed aesthetic. We love hard-working and talented people with a can-do attitude and a passion for what they do.
THE ROLE
Reporting into the Chief Creative Officer (CCO), you will play a key role in developing and executing a comprehensive creative strategy that delivers to Hush’s creative vision and visual objectives across all customer touchpoints. You will leverage your creative experience in parallel with your ability to think strategically to develop creative concepts that have a strong narrative, are unique in the market, and build the Hush world whilst also provoking emotion in the Hush woman. In addition, you will support the CCO by overseeing art and design, ensuring that the Hush style guide is executed consistently across multiple brand touchpoints, including events and stores. You will work in a collaborative and agile way, demonstrating your ability to balance creative and commercial objectives and build trusted relationships with others to effectively direct all work, whether through external agencies, freelance vendors, or internal production resources, ensuring best-in-class output is delivered on time and within budget.
THE RESPONSIBILITIES
Campaign – collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to understand campaign, consumer and cultural context and translate these insights into creative campaign concepts.
Lead the creative process, from research and concept to art direction, post-production to asset creation, ensuring all content is on-brand, and delivers the brief objectives.
Serve as Lead Art Director for campaigns, overseeing the image direction of the brand and governing post-production of photography and moving image.
Inspire and direct designers to execute design briefs across all digital and print brand touchpoints.
Oversee continuous design improvement on hush-uk.com
Continually assess and optimize creative workflows to enhance efficiency and output quality.
Nurture industry relationships and build a large network of creatives around the brand including art directors, photographers, stylists and DOPs.
Monitor creative and industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to inform and inspire creative approaches.
Lead and mentor a small and passionate team of creatives across art and design, to ensure the creation of high-quality, impactful content.
THE PERSON
Extensive experience leading a studio or creative team as a Head of Art and Design or Creative in either agency or in-house environments; experience with fashion, lifestyle or cultural-impact brands preferred.
Proven ability building, managing and inspiring Creative teams, with a track record of successful project execution and team development.
Experience conceptualising, developing, and executing ideas and assets for creative campaigns with strong brand messages across all platforms and channels i…
