Creatives at AKQA (part of WPP) apply artistry, emerging creative tools, and craftsmanship to strategic insight, bringing to life transformative ideas that shape culture and move the world. Skilled storytellers and visionary conceptors, they thrive in a multidisciplinary environment to develop labours of love that delight audiences and deliver measurable impact for clients.
Job Description
• Deliver award-winning work that pushes creative boundaries, using story, interactivity, and emerging technologies to spark meaningful change.• Create and write concepts for a diverse range of formats from rich film scripts and digital video to social activations, branded content, and non-traditional campaign ecosystems.• Create and manage original, persuasive, conceptually compelling work for integrated campaigns and digital product experiences with light supervision.• Consistently deliver innovative solutions and high-quality craft on time and to specification.• Partner closely with Art Directors, Experience Designers, Creative Directors, and Strategy teams to unearth core narrative truths and build unified big ideas.• Work alongside developers, creative technologists, project managers, and client leads to prototype and launch next-generation digital products, web platforms, and branded content ecosystems.• Seamlessly combine strategic thinking with nuanced tone-of-voice design and sharp conceptual copy.• Actively experiment with new creative tools, workflows, and mediums to redefine how stories are told and experienced.• Drive high levels of internal team alignment and external client trust.• Maintain rigorous attention to detail, nuance, and structural accuracy across all deliverables.• Stay ahead of technological shifts, digital culture, and design developments, integrating modern techniques into day-to-day practices to elevate creative output.• Participate in pitches and key presentations, articulating creative rationale confidently to clients and leadership.
Requirement
• A compelling portfolio demonstrating high-calibre conceptual thinking, film craft writing, and non-traditional campaign execution.• A strong balance of big-idea concepting and detailed craft copy/scriptwriting.• Prior experience working with luxury, premium, or lifestyle brands is a plus.• A natural drive to challenge conventions, explore non-traditional formats, and craft world-first ideas.• Fearlessly creative, highly adaptable, and relentlessly attentive to detail.• A strong work ethic with a commitment to pushing creative executions beyond standard advertising formulas.• Deep curiosity about culture, story craft, and evolving communication channels.• Fluent in written and spoken English.• German language skills are a plus.
Skill
conceptual thinking, film craft writing, copywriting, scriptwriting, storytelling, tone-of-voice design, creative concepting, digital video, branded content, social activations