Careers
What we’re looking for
We look for smart and resilient problem solvers; for creative minds; for individuals who want to push boundaries; to look at things from different angles; and connect the dots in a way others can't.
Our employees come to us to work with some of the world’s best-known brands and influential people, helping our clients identify and tell meaningful stories that drive real change, and genuine connection. Love & Work is our foundation because we do what we love, and we love what we do.
Many of our alumni have gone on to run their own top 150 agencies; to lead the communications and marketing for well-known global brands; and are leaders in their fields of expertise.
We pride ourselves on the ability to assemble teams of passionate specialists from all over the world with a huge variety of backgrounds, all experienced in solving tricky problems.
As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage all applicants to apply, regardless of race, religion, origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. Freuds Group strives to ensure a sense of belonging for all; we’re proud to support and utilise a diverse range of thoughts and perspectives in the teams we build as well as the work we create.
Our belonging behaviours are built on the foundation of Collaboration, Connection, Empathy & Understanding and Allyship, these pillars are entwined into our daily life and are one of the markers for how we measure both company and individual success.
Creative Executive Director
The Team
The Role
Freuds Group is seeking a Creative Executive Director with experience in communications across paid, earned and owned media. We are dedicated to using the power of communications to influence behaviour and drive positive change. This role is pivotal in shaping the agency’s creative direction, ensuring our work pushes boundaries, delivers culturally relevant campaigns and measurable impact for our clients. You’ll inspire teams, challenge norms, and deliver work that’s creatively groundbreaking.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the creative vision across all client accounts and Group initiatives to help tell their stories, manage reputations, create impact and shape culture
- Champion innovation, new technologies and tools to ensure creative excellence and craft in idea generation and pitching
- Collaborate, Inspire, mentor, and manage a team of creatives to develop their craft as well as upskill and drive creative confidence across the agency
- Work alongside our strategic department to ensure we deliver creatives that are imbedded in strategic thinking with measurable impact
- Work with our group companies and stakeholders to help create campaigns and initiatives to help us become a catalyst for positive change
- The gravitas, expertise and ability to represent Freuds at industry events, awards, and thought leadership forums
- Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, which require a passion for what we do and an ability to persevere. In addition, you will take an active role in our belonging values – collaborating to achieve common goals, connecting with one another in an authentic way, sharing our perspectives and embracing others, and actively supporting each other and our experiences.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 15+ years of experience in a senior creative leadership role within a top-tier agency or brand. We are open to exploring appropriate experience based on demonstrable and relevant output
- Experience in creating marketing campaigns and creating integrated content across all marketing channels: digital, social media, paid media, mobile, offline and print..
- Understanding of the earned media landscape and what is required to create and drive earned buzz
- Ability to deliver for a broad range of commercial and third sector clients including consumer, government, corporate, health, finance, culture, arts
- Thrive in a fast moving and ever evolving environment
- Proven track record of delivering award-winning, culturally relevant campaigns
- Thrive in making the unthinkable impossible and demonstrate ongoing intellectual curiosity
- Exceptional storytelling, conceptual thinking, and brand-building skills.
To Apply
Consumer Associate Director
The Team
We are a team of consumer specialists who make businesses and brands culturally relevant through impactful earned communications. Clients include KFC, McCain, Warburtons, Mars and Danone.
Our success comes by transcending the category, we crash the national conversation and go beyond what is expected. With connectivity at our heart, we match the right people with the right brand, bringing together clients, partners, and friends to amplify the campaign and to add credibility. We deliver campaigns that ensure our audience takes notice, we drive engagement, build, and protect reputations, shift perception, grow fame, build relationships, and change behaviour. Our aim is to connect our clients to their target audiences in a meaningful, relevant ways.
The Role
We are looking for a culturally connected, strategically minded and action orientated associate director with big consumer brand experience to work across clients that might include Evian and KFC. We need a motivated leader with 10+ years’ experience of inspiring teams to deliver fame making campaigns that deliver impact in earned and social, that appeal to Gen Z audiences and excite both clients and agency staff. We want someone with the charm, smarts, counsel and proactivity to manage senior clients, large agency teams and form part of the senior team within consumer brands at freuds.
We value connectivity, hustle and collaboration. We want high energy, motivational leadership and ambition.
Key Responsibilities
- Ability to inform and influence integrated comms strategies, and knowledge and confidence to articulate the power of earned in an interagency collaborative working group
- Deep understanding of new media earned media strategies to maximize reach and engagement of campaigns across social, content creators and publications
- Ability to manage a response to a client brief end to end, directing and project managing from taking client brief to delivery of presentation. You will have excellent presentation skills, deck writing capabilities and ability to collaborate with the necessary specialist strategy and creative team to build the response
- You will be able to manage six-figure plus campaigns, lead and inspire a team to deliver above and beyond expectations
- Problem solver, calm in a crisis, solutions focused to ensure campaigns are delivered in time, within budget and on target
- Must have operated as a primary, day to day client lead responsible for the smooth running of the account
- Should be comfortable running meetings and playing an active role alongside our partners across the integrated marketing mix freuds offers
- Providing immediate communications support for senior clients including acting as the primary contact for out of hours assistance when needed
- Proactively nurturing and building internal and external networks of influential contacts from journalists, content creators, influencers, talent, and other relevant third parties
- Line managing and mentoring junior team members, including responsibility for their evaluation and professional development
- Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, which require a passion for what we do and an ability to persevere. In addition, you will take an active role in our belonging values – collaborating to achieve common goals, connecting with one another in an authentic way, sharing our perspectives and embracing others, and actively supporting each other and our experiences.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Ideally have a minimum of 10 years’ experience in consumer, culture led brand communications largely within agency
- Seasoned and confident client handler with experience of advising at senior levels
- Excellent time management skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, high pressure environment, managing your own work and that of others
- Experience in a senior management role leading people and teams, and a track record in industry leading consumer brand campaigns
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to influence clients and colleagues
- Enthusiasm and a ‘can-do’, proactive attitude.
- Ability to interact with and gain the trust of senior clients and colleagues
- Knowledge and ability to articulate a POV on the role of earned, the future amongst a fragmented media landscape and the drive to constantly challenge and evolve how things are done to improve through innovation
To Apply
Please send your CV to freudsgroupcareers@freuds.com
Consumer & Strategy - Associate Director
The Team
We are a team of consumer specialists who make businesses and brands culturally relevant through impactful earned communications. Clients include KFC, McCain, Mars and Danone.
Our success comes by transcending the category, we crash the national conversation and go beyond what is expected. With connectivity at our heart, we match the right people with the right brand, bringing together clients, partners, and friends to amplify the campaign and to add credibility. We deliver campaigns that ensure our audience takes notice, we drive engagement, build, and protect reputations, shift perception, grow fame, build relationships, and change behaviour. Our aim is to connect our clients to their target audiences in a meaningful, relevant ways.
The Role
We’re looking for an earned-first consumer Associate Director who has substantial experience of developing strategy and insight led plans.
The ideal candidate will be able to connect our creative ideas with reality, ensuring that both client expectations and cultural insights are taken on board to ensure success.
Currently working in a role that spans all elements of campaign development from ideation through to strategy or working in a global hub environment you will be a curious and determined individual who leaves no stone unturned and has the confidence to lead client relationships and inspire junior colleagues. You’ll know how to work the room and will bring exceptional presentation experience, project management and planning skills to our busy team.
Key Responsibilities
- Ability to inform and influence integrated comms strategies, and knowledge and confidence to articulate the power of earned in an interagency collaborative working group
- A track record of providing clients with evidence-based strategies
- Deep understanding of new media earned media strategies to maximize reach and engagement of campaigns across social, content creators and publications
- Ability to manage a response to a client brief end to end, directing and project managing from taking client brief to delivery of presentation.
- Excellent presentation skills, deck writing capabilities and ability to collaborate with the necessary specialist strategy and creative team to build the response
- You will be able to manage six-figure plus campaigns, lead and inspire a team to deliver above and beyond expectations
- Problem solver, calm in a crisis, solutions focused to ensure campaigns are delivered in time, within budget and on target
- Must have operated as a primary, day to day client lead responsible for the smooth running of the account
- Have a reputation for your exemplary project management and ability to resolve issues
- Should be comfortable running meetings and playing an active role alongside our partners across the integrated marketing mix Freuds offers
- Providing immediate communications support for senior clients including acting as the primary contact for out of hours assistance when needed
- Proactively nurturing and building internal and external networks of influential contacts from journalists, content creators, influencers, talent, and other relevant third parties
- Line managing and mentoring junior team members, including responsibility for their evaluation and professional development
- Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, which require a passion for what we do and an ability to persevere. In addition, you will take an active role in our belonging values – collaborating to achieve common goals, connecting with one another in an authentic way, sharing our perspectives and embracing others, and actively supporting each other and our experiences.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
To Apply
Design & Identity - Associate Director (SAD)
The Team
Freuds creates compelling designs for brands, businesses, public sector institutions, NGOs, products, and campaigns. We focus on building not just beautiful imagery but emotional architecture - Ideas & Identity. We specialise in branding and rebranding, editorial design, digital and motion, website design, art direction, naming and copywriting and merchandise.
The Role
We are seeking a talented Associate Director to work in our in-house design + identity team. Our integrated team supports clients across the agency producing content for leading global campaigns.
The Associate Director - Design, will support the Executive Art Director by ensuring that our creative work is of the highest possible standard. The role will also involve communicating our offering in new ways to existing and new clients, to help expand the business. The role will involve identifying and nurturing the skillsets of the team to get to the best product. All this will help the Executive Art Director promote and shape our design and content offering and help build our external client base.
The role requires strong client servicing and project management experience and an individual that understands the design led process.
The ideal candidate will have prior management experience, is independent and self-guided, with experience leading workshops and presenting ideas.
This candidate is a natural with clients and speaks convincingly about every project to different stakeholders
Key Responsibilities
Type of projects that the DAD run:
- Proposal writing, pitching and sales-related project activities
- Managing design projects for clients
- Internal marketing projects: design strategy, development of unique products that can improve the agency’s design output
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Knowledge, skills and attributes
- Strong influencing, negotiation and communication skills (written, verbal and presentation) - how to set expectations with clients, how to sell concepts to clients or potential clients, how to work with colleagues, ask the right questions, explain what you’re capable of, and talk about design decisions clearly and persuasively to non-designers
- Strong knowledge of design processes, design management and project management
- Exceptional knowledge and proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft PowerPoint
- Ideally, you have knowledge/understanding of Figma and experience working with WordPress and other Content Management Systems
- A willingness to Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, which require a passion for what we do and an ability to persevere. In addition, you will take an active role in our belonging values – collaborating to achieve common goals, connecting with one another in an authentic way, sharing our perspectives and embracing others, and actively supporting each other and our experiences.
To Apply
Media Corporate, Arts & Culture - Associate (AA)
The Team
Our Arts, Culture and Corporate Media department is made up of a core team of experts who create publicity campaigns for some of the sector’s best-known brands, individuals and organisations – from Working Title Films to Fulwell Entertainment, The National Portrait Gallery's relaunch to Somerset House's 25th anniversary and supporting the first ever SXSW London.
The Role
Freuds is an agency on a mission and has been at the intersection of arts and entertainment for 40 years including working on the high profile 25th anniversary of Somerset House through to the launch of the world’s most technologically advanced film studios at Studio Ulster. We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate (AA Level) to work across consumer and corporate campaigns with our high-profile clients in the screen and arts space. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in the Arts and film/TV and bring strong administration and time management skills along with a curiosity, thoughtfulness and a willingness to get stuck in with our friendly communications team. The role requires passion for the news media, and an interest in what makes a good story. We welcome applications from individuals who have experience working and/or living in different cultures.
Key Responsibilities
- Drafting a range of materials, such as press releases, opinion articles and online copy
- Being proactive in pitching articles, stories, speaker opportunities
- Daily media monitoring and building media lists
- ‘Leaving no stone unturned’ in researching industry news, background information for pitches, client updates and taking responsibility for flagging articles of interest to team members
- Helping to co-ordinate brainstorms
- Taking pride in delivering exceptional call notes/minutes/agendas for meetings
- Co-ordinating sell-ins across different teams
- Organizing and coordinating events, press conferences, photo calls, and or media contact programmes
- Responding quickly and accurately to client requests
- Supporting new business proposals and pitches
- Being first port of call for responding to team requests/ team inbox queries
- Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, which require a passion for what we do and an ability to persevere. In addition, you will take an active role in our belonging values – collaborating to achieve common goals, connecting with one another in an authentic way, sharing our perspectives and embracing others, and actively supporting each other and our experiences.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Ability to write sparkling copy and a keen sense of grammar
- Attention to detail across all areas, taking pride in presenting their best work
- Enthusiasm for developing an understanding of the Arts and Film/TV space and its role within society
- Excellent time management and the ability to respond to tasks quickly and efficiently
- An entrepreneurial spirit – coming up with creative ideas and an ability to adapt and change as needed
- An inquisitive mind – asking questions, keen to learn new ways to do things in order to deliver for the client and team
- Interest in handling media enquiries and sell-ins
- Someone with a good understanding of influencers/social media
- Someone who shows a good understanding of the media landscape in the UK
- A good understanding of the daily news agenda and ability to discuss and comment on it with colleagues
- Ability to stick to deadlines and organise their work flow as they will be juggling various responsibilities across the press office
- Someone who is enthusiastic, proactive, a hard worker
- Confidence in contributing to meetings and sharing ideas
To Apply
Our application process is CV’less, please don’t send us one. Instead, it’s time for you to get creative… in any format you choose, please provide the following:
- Tell us why you’re interested in the Arts and Media
- Let us know why we should hire you
Closing date is 7th August.
We encourage you to submit an anonymized CV.
By removing personal information, we ensure a fair evaluation based solely on skills.
