Creative Insights Director (12-Month Parental Leave Cover)
London
Creative – Creative /
Fixed Term Parental Leave /
Hybrid
Creative Insights Director
Duration: 12 Month Parental Leave Cover
Location: London, UK
Start: October, 2024
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.
Who You Are:
- You are curious and passionate about the way imagery works. You are naturally interested in visual communication in all forms and love discussing the content that you come across. You are equal parts creative and analytical.
- You enjoy research and are comfortable sharing what you know with the world at large.
- You are highly organized and detail-oriented, able to handle the 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 to find appropriate solutions. 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
Your Next Challenge:
- Responsibilities include leading client interactions in visual content discussions, forming and growing trusted client relationships, crafting strategic content and maintaining Getty Images and iStock’s position as the leader in visual communication.
- Develop role as strategic client partner and advisor across ongoing initiatives, conceiving and driving
- Build and direct thoughtful solutions to complex visual brand and communications challenges on behalf of Getty Images’ and iStock customer segments
- Consult with key clients on a range of strategic brand initiatives, including visual brand positioning, thought leadership etc. Influence at a high level (C Suite or Head of regional/global departments)
- Work with Sales teams to bring in new business based on the visual positioning of the Creative department’s visual expertise and content offering.
- Continue to build on knowledge of visual usage patterns by industries and brands to deliver strategies that elevate internal thinking and evolve customer visual brand planning
- Collaborate with content creation and creator engagement teams to craft briefing processes and execution in alignment with the overarching Creative department narratives
- Collaborate with Curation and Promotion leads on setting visual strategy for externally-facing creative initiatives
- Inform and educate Getty Images’ and iStock creator communities through a number of activities such as webinars, briefing strategies and in person events
- Lead a regional research team in supporting Marketing, PR, Creative, Editorial, Product and Sales organizations in showing the strength of Getty Images and iStock’s creative offering to customers.
- Inspire and grow junior team members
- Act as a senior thought leader through speaking at international conferences and industry events
- Mentor, strengthen and develop your team through effective performance management
What You'l' Need:
- 10+ years experience in a related position in a Branding, Advertising Agency, or related professional services such as a Research Agency
- A strategic problem solver with the ability to instill confidence in clients and across internal teams
- An excellent verbal and written communicator, comfortable preparing presentations and speaking in front of groups
- Passion for visuals with strong understanding of visual communication strategy
- Ability to lead members of the team across a region (EMEA)
- Experience influencing at a high level (C Suite or Head of regional/global departments)
- Consistent track record in mentoring and development of junior managers
- Prove ability to effectively communicate insights strategy and execution at ExCom level.
- Shown experience collaborating with and influencing leaders to maintain consistency and scale processes across teams
- Expert communicator with strong written and presentation skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate complex ideas, timelines, and mediate between stakeholders.
- The ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all levels within an organization and shown ability to establish trust quickly and create win-win situations
- The capacity to handle change in end-to-end processes
- Project leadership and organizational skills to transform ideas into successful execution while being capable of driving complex projects across multiple groups within tight timelines
- A committed self-starter who can operate in a fast-paced environment and thrives on competing deliverables
- Adept at deriving clarity out of ambiguous situations and adaptable to change
- Proficient in the Microsoft suite of products, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, etc
- Demonstrated experience in developing and analyzing data to support business decisions and to provide insight into future initiatives
Benefits for qualifying employees at Getty Images
Private Medical Insurance (PMI)
Private Medical Insurance through Cigna is designed to give you access to medical care where and when you need it. The scheme covers the costs of private medical treatment for consultations, out-patient, in-patient and day-care treatment in accordance with the benefit limits and rules set out in the policy. All employees are automatically covered from the date they join. Individual cover is 100% Getty Images paid, and there is also the option to add your spouse and dependents to the policy at an additional cost.
Time off Work/life balance is important to us
In addition to public holidays, Getty Images offers 25 paid holidays per year.
Company Paid Holidays
Employees enjoy company-paid holidays for each of our global locations.
Life Assurance, Critical Illness and Income Protection
We automatically enroll all new employees in our risk coverage schemes, with Getty Images paying 100% of the cost. We provide you with Group Life Assurance (x4 salary), Critical Illness Cover (x1 salary) and Income Protection (75% salary).
Employee Assistance Programme
Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is provided by Health Assured. This is a free, confidential, service available to all employees 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year
Group Personal Pension (GPP)
Save for retirement with Aviva by making contributions consistently and conveniently through payroll deductions. Getty Images automatically enrolls all employees at 3% of your pay, with Getty Images contributing 5% of your pay. You have the option of increasing how much you contribute and benefit from tax and NI savings by contributing via salary sacrifice.
Learning & Growth
We value continuous learning and development to help everyone develop their skills. Enjoy mentorship, curated training & more.
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.
