Creative Lead, EMEA

Creative Lead, EMEA

Duration: Permanent

Location:  EMEA - London, UK or  Dublin, ROI

Start: ASAP

The Creative team provides customers with original, relevant, and contemporary visuals. Through an industry-unique combination of consumer research, proprietary data, and three decades of trend reporting experience, the team delivers actionable insights that guide customers to the visual content that connects with consumers. Closely collaborating with our contributor base of photographers, videographers, and illustrators around the world, the team develops market leading, authentic, and differentiated content. 

• As the Creative Lead for the creative content creation team in EMEA, you will be responsible for developing, driving and delivering on a strategic creative vision.
• You have a strong collaborative creative vision and can convert data backed insights into compelling visual narratives.
• You are passionate about visual communication and are comfortable sharing what you know with the creative team, customers, and content creators alike.
• You will have a good understanding of the visual landscape and knowledge of visual trends in commissioned brand photography, with knowledge of stock photography beneficial.
• You devise original shoot ideas based on analysis of data and be highly effective at communicating these ideas to your team ensuring the content we are crafting is both commercially relevant as well as award winning.
• You have a proven instinct for identifying and recruiting up-and-coming creators (stills and video) to create commercial content.
• You are highly organised and meticulous, able to handle many moving parts of multiple work streams operating simultaneously while still meeting deadlines.
• A creative problem-solver with the ability to quickly identify problems and work independently and positively to find appropriate solutions that have impact.
• You have a pulse on what’s new and next in art and culture and are not afraid to share your insights and perspective with a multi-disciplinary creative team.

• Act as ambassador and pro-actively build advocacy for Getty Images and iStock amongst creators and the wider commercial photography community to help recruit, engage, and motivate our creators in EMEA.
• Mentor, strengthen, and develop creative teams remotely across EMEA through effective performance management.
• Take a leading role in inspiring creative teams and finding new methods of brainstorming new shoot ideas with support from the insights team.
• You will work on a range of initiatives and projects which help promote and showcase our work, strengthening Getty Images and iStock’s creative offering.
• Offer support and growth of our EMEA creators by providing your team advice on the creators’ portfolio they work with, give reviews, and guidance.
• Strong collaborator to build and strengthen relationships internally with Creative Insights, Promotion, Sales, Product, PR and Marketing
• The role is as much about people as it is about creativity; you will build relationships across the business, our network of creators, and our customers.
• Collaborate with the insights team and the curation and promotion team to create visual narratives for key research and thought leadership projects in region.
• Significantly grow the quality and quantity of creative content for EMEA on all sites.
• Work closely with the Senior Director of Creative for content metrics and performance against creative strategy.

• 10+ years’ experience within visual communications or advertising industries.
• 6+ years’ experience in a people management role.
• Proven track record in mentoring and development of creators and / or creative managers.
• Prepare & present your ideas through excellent visual, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Shown ability to effectively communicate strategy and the performance of your team.
• Experienced in art directing, managing, and producing shoots on a global scale.
• Experience in video production.
• Must be self-motivated and can work with minimum supervision to accomplish goals and handle tasks with frequent interruptions.
• Work well under pressure, independently and can multi-task on a variety of projects is vital.
• Full working proficiency in English writing and reading.
• Great storyteller, presenter and communicator.
• Additional language skills in German, Arabic, Spanish and/or French a plus.

There’s a story in every picture, a narrative in every frame. 

We believe in the power of visuals. As a leading visual content creator, our three brands–Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash–offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer, whatever their size, location, or budget. Whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving, our visuals help any brand, business, or organization communicate more effectively with their target audience and urge them to action. In other words, we know how powerful an image or video can be—and that it can move the world. 

Working at Getty Images 

Our goal is to be one of the best places to work globally, which means we’re dedicated to providing experiences and resources that allow you to do your best work. Foundational to our culture are our Leadership Principles, which are the shared values that guide how we come together to do our work. We raise the bar and collectively bring solutions while exercising trust, transparency, and care. We actively reject biased behavior and are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences. We focus on our customers and deliver on our commitments and commercial goals. 

We foster a collaborative and supportive environment that prioritizes delivering results efficiently and using time wisely, so that all employees can achieve balance between commitments to the company and health and well-being in our lives. We value the importance of rest and recovery ranging from company-paid holidays to time away from work.

Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is a publicly traded company, and its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GETY". You may be eligible to participate in our employee Stock Purchase Plan, which allows employees to purchase company stock at a 15% discount to market. 

Our employees’ growth, development, belonging, and engagement are important investments. We offer learning experiences ranging from leadership development, diversity and inclusion training, mentoring programs, a high potential program, and professional and skills development. We prioritize staying connected in our hybrid-working world and encourage participation in global morale events and local gatherings, as well as finding community in one or more of our Employee Resource Groups. Learning about our business is paramount, and our open and transparent culture means you’ll have direct access to experts and senior leaders via open forums, all hands, and content hours. 

Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. Getty Images is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.