Associate Creative Director
Entain is expanding its in-house creative capability to support a broader range of brands, campaigns, and activation-led ideas. The Associate Creative Director plays a key role in shaping this output by creating culturally relevant, socially fluent, and channel-agnostic ideas that connect with audiences across the full customer journey.
Working closely with Creative Directors, the Associate Creative Director takes a senior creative role across major briefs, from initial concept and development through to execution. This is a hands-on leadership position where the individual originates ideas, shapes the creative narrative, provides copy and art direction, and raises the standard of work. The role involves presenting and selling ideas to senior stakeholders while collaborating with strategy, social, design, and production teams.
- Lead integrated creative briefs from strategic thinking and concept development through to execution across social, digital, film, print, experiential, and activations.
- Develop original ideas rooted in audience and cultural insight, translating brand platforms into distinctive campaigns, experiences, and content.
- Provide strong copy and art direction, protecting the central creative idea as work moves from concept into production.
- Lead social and digital shoots, including scripting and creative direction across production teams, crew, and talent.
- Present and sell creative thinking to senior stakeholders, while providing clear direction and constructive feedback to other creatives.
- Senior creative experience as an Associate Creative Director, Senior Creative, or equivalent within an integrated, digital, or creative agency environment (required).
- A strong portfolio demonstrating original conceptual thinking and successful 360-degree campaigns across multiple channels (required).
- Excellent copywriting and art direction instincts, with the ability to turn strategic insight into simple, powerful creative ideas (required).
- Hands-on production experience, including taking concepts into shoots and working confidently with production teams, crew, and talent (required).
- Strong knowledge of social and digital platforms, combined with the confidence to present to senior stakeholders and guide other creatives (required).
- Generous group bonus scheme
- Hybrid working – 2 days in the office
- Private medical insurance
- Pension scheme – matched to 6%
- Additional "It's Your Game" day off to use at either Christmas or New Year
- Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
- Share save scheme
Entain is one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming entertainment groups and a FTSE 100 company. Formed when GVC Holdings rebranded as Entain in December 2020, its brands trace their history back to the 1880s and include bwin, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Ladbrokes and partypoker. Through its joint venture with MGM Resorts International, it powers BetMGM in the United States with its proprietary technology. Headquartered in London, Entain employs over 30,000 people with offices across 19 countries.