About the role

You‘ll lead ideas across social, comms and marketing for some of the biggest names in global sport. Most of your time will be spent concepting campaigns and reactive content that connect with audiences, but you’ll also bring a strong voice to strategy and a curious eye for cultural crossovers.

You’ll help raise the bar across the team, mentoring creatives earlier in their careers and setting the standard for the quality, clarity and ambition of our ideas.

What you’ll own

• Concepts built for channel: vertical video, social-first formats, episodic series, reactive content and longer-form editorial.

• Copywriting and hook-writing across social, owned and earned media.

• Integrated creative across PR, comms, partnerships and brand, so a single idea works hard in every room.

• Cultural calls: trends, athlete voices, federation moments and fan behaviour that shape what we make and when.

• Editorial direction on social channels run by Redtorch or our clients, including platform-native voice and pace.

• Reactive briefs turned around fast, without dropping the bar.

• How the comms and creative teams work together: briefing, review points, handovers and where ideas get sharpest. You’ll have real influence on the ways of working between the two teams.

How you’ll work

• Partner with Research & Insights and Communications so ideas are rooted in audience truth and channel reality.

• Use performance signals (engagement, watch-through, share rate, sentiment) to sharpen what comes next.

• Present ideas and creative work to senior clients with clarity and conviction.

• Work with project managers to manage creative processes, schedules and budgets.

• Stay close to what’s happening in sport, social and wider culture, and bring those references into the team.

• Keep an eye on direct competitors and know how Redtorch’s work compares.

Tools

You’ll need to visualise ideas quickly in both video and static form, whether that’s rough sketches, mood frames, animatics or quick cuts that get the idea across before a full production starts.

Fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud is expected. Working knowledge of After Effects, similar motion tools is a plus as is a good working knowledge of AI tools such as Flora, Wavy, Runway, Sora or similar for image and video generation. You should have a curious eye for what’s coming next and an opinion on where these tools belong in our process.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years in a senior creative role within an agency or sports environment.

• A portfolio showing ideas across social, campaign and editorial work, with examples that performed in the wild.

• Strong copy instincts and a clear creative voice.

• The ability to visualise ideas yourself, in both video and static form, using AI tools alongside more traditional ones.

• Experience leading and mentoring creatives and lifting the work of those around you.

• Confidence presenting and defending creative work to senior stakeholders.

• Experience on global brands, and a clear-eyed view of how international campaigns actually get made.

Reporting line

Reports to Creative Director. Sits at the same level as the Senior Designer and works closely with them on shared campaign, brand and identity work.

Shared expectations across senior creatives at Redtorch

The Senior Designer leads on craft, identity and visual systems. The Senior Creative leads on ideas, social and comms. Both roles meet in the middle on campaigns and brand work, and on how Redtorch shows up to the outside world.

Whichever role you hold, you’re expected to:

• Mentor and develop creatives earlier in their careers and keep the standard high across the team.

• Build trust with clients quickly and become a voice they want in the room on the hard calls.

• Facilitate workshops, sharpen briefs and bring a clear point of view to internal and client conversations.

• Understand each client’s world: their goals, their constraints, their audience, and what good looks like for them.

• Work with project managers on processes, schedules, budgets and quality control.

• Stay close to sport, culture and what our direct competitors are making, and bring those signals back to the team.

• Help shape the direction of the creative department, including the occasional opinion piece for the outside world.

About The Role

You‘ll shape visual ideas, build identity systems and lead design work for some of the biggest names in global sport. Your work will sit across digital, social, print and physical environments, and it will be rooted in a clear strategic idea and built around the audience it needs to reach.

You will also help raise the bar across the team, mentoring designers earlier in their careers and setting the standard on craft.

What You’ll Own

• Brand identities, design systems and toolkits that work at scale across global sports audiences.

• Campaign creative for digital, social, print, environmental and event applications.

• Typography, layout and art direction as the core of the craft.

• The visual direction of projects, holding the line on consistency and quality across every output.

• Asset handover and brand stewardship across motion, illustration, photography and development partners.

• Print production knowledge where it applies: stock, finishes, proofing and approvals.

How You’ll Work

• Partner with Research & Insights and Communications so the work has a real strategic backbone.

• Present design thinking and ideas to senior clients with clarity and conviction.

• Work with project managers to manage creative processes, schedules and budgets.

• Stay close to what’s happening in sport, design and visual culture, and bring sharper references into the team.

• Keep an eye on direct competitors and know how Redtorch’s work compares.

Tools

Fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma is expected. Working knowledge of After Effects, Cinema 4D or similar motion tools is a plus.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years in a senior design role within an agency or sports environment.

• A portfolio with real depth in branding, visual identity and campaign design.

• Experience leading and mentoring designers and lifting the work of those around you.

• Confidence presenting and defending creative work to senior stakeholders.

• Experience on global brands, and a clear-eyed view of how international campaigns actually get made.

Reporting Line

Reports to Creative Director. Sits at the same level as the Senior Designer and works closely with them on shared campaign, brand and identity work.

Shared expectations across senior creatives at Redtorch

The Senior Designer leads on craft, identity and visual systems. The Senior Creative leads on ideas, social and comms. Both roles meet in the middle on campaigns and brand work, and on how Redtorch shows up to the outside world.

Whichever role you hold, you’re expected to:

• Mentor and develop creatives earlier in their careers and keep the standard high across the team.

• Build trust with clients quickly and become a voice they want in the room on the hard calls.

• Facilitate workshops, sharpen briefs and bring a clear point of view to internal and client conversations.

• Understand each client’s world: their goals, their constraints, their audience, and what good looks like for them.

• Work with project managers on processes, schedules, budgets and quality control.

• Stay close to sport, culture and what our direct competitors are making, and bring those signals back to the team.

• Help shape the direction of the creative department, including the occasional opinion piece for the outside world.