Bow&Arrow - Associate Creative Director (m/f/x)

WHY B&A

Bow & Arrow is a team of venture builders. We create digital products, services and ventures for game-changing businesses, including BMW MINI, Google, British Airways, Airbnb, John Lewis, The Wall Street Journal and Amex. The impact we are having is changing the way people live, bank, work, and travel. You can hear more about who we are and what we do on our website. 

We are not your typical consultancy, and we are much more than your traditional design studio. Bringing together the sharpest creative, strategic and commercial minds, we work in tight, truly collaborative and high-performing start-up teams to accelerate concepts from ideas to market-ready ventures. We are backed by the superpower that is Accenture, which opens doors to the largest enterprises. 

Bow & Arrow is on a growth journey, from a boutique venture agency to a scaled business driving new ventures across Europe and ultimately beyond. We are setting up a European team, around our new venture hub in Berlin. This means that you will be one of the founders of our brand-new studio, helping us to set up our delivery model for success. 

Building a venture takes a village, and we need all types of skills at B&A. We are looking for 'genius misfits' who thrive on excellence and collaboration. We want people to help us grow and evolve – finding new work, contributing to the culture, mentoring and growing the team.

YOUR ROLE

As an Associate Creative Director, you are here to own key client relationships across multiple projects and work streams and to deliver a sustained pipeline of work with these clients in collaboration with the Directors and the Partners. You are here to lead the business and its culture, fostering collaboration, inspiring others and ensuring quality of work.
 

Within this role, you will:

• Manage cross-functional teams across Accenture, harnessing skills and experience from the wider business

• Provide bigger picture perspective and be responsible for the overall delivery of all projects across client accounts 

• Set the context and direction for the creation of the overall venture proposition and recommendation to the client – know our clients, their markets and competitors inside out, ensuring the work is always cognizant of the client and business context

• Provide a breadth of expertise and experience, offering fresh and relevant perspective and challenges that inspires and guides the account and client

• Consistently set the standard and stretch it to be able to produce world class creative work, and challenge the team on quality of deliverables

• Nurture and grow senior client relationships for existing and new accounts, provide a trusted voice of experience, authority and insight, and support the SCLs and CLs in management and relationships building of key client accounts

• Have difficult conversations and flawlessly converting any concerns or issues into deeper relations and trust, set client priorities, anticipate and proactively provide solutions to their problems

• Be responsible for future pipeline with your client account and lead the development of proposals and pitches with your Strategy counterpart

• Mentor senior members of the Creative team, and be responsible for a family tree of SCLs, CLs and Designers 

• Grow the team and wider B&A – building the culture through creative inspiration, owning and running design training, internal initiatives and thought-leadership events