Rolling Stone Australia & New Zealand Hiring for Creative Lead at Australia Full Time

ROLLINGSTONE AU CREATIVE

NOTE: THIS IS NOT A GRAPHIC DESIGN ROLE – IT’S CREATIVE SOLUTIONS & STRATEGY

Creative is one of the most dynamic departments within Rollingstone. It is the bridge between our creative and commercial departments and crucial to the success of our brand in-market.

As a Creative at Rollingstone you will be a cultural custodian helping to ensure Rollingstone develop concepts and win briefs with entertaining, insightful, and nuanced creative responses and ideas.

These may range from editorial and video to larger brand activations and earned media campaigns. It is crucial that you can identify a path forward to a winning idea through a distinct POV. Your work creates relevance and emotional resonance for brands trying to reach the hard-to-access youth market.

You know the difference between authentic and contrived branded content. Your content speaks eye-to-eye with our audience and finds a way to organically integrate brands. Ultimately, your ideas are strong enough to justify their existence outside of brand deals. That’s what makes them successful. 

You know how to strike the balance between a ‘big idea’ and a balanced budget and can collaborate with Production Heads to do so. You know how to take a complex brief and cut through the jargon with clean creative solutions. In other words: you make great content and know how to intelligently weave brand stories into it. 

Day-to-day your work will encompass: collaborating with the Creative Director on unpacking briefs and building winning deck responses. You will attend briefings, brainstorming sessions and client presentations — with the capability to oversee the execution of content and activations after sign-off.

You likely come from a content or publishing background, but may have worked at an ad agency. Importantly, you are a storyteller. This grounds your approach to creative at Rollingstone and informs the choices you make.

You can think outside of the box, but you also know how to elevate a simple ask into an elegant response. Your pitch decks illicit laughs, smiles or gasps and push brands into exciting directions they didn’t know they needed to go in.

You are plugged into culture. You have a broad understanding of what is going on in the worlds of music, fashion, streetwear and trends. You know the right talent to reach for to make an idea sing, and may have a plug or two to call when needed. 

Primary responsibilities:

• Develop ideas and proposals for our brand partners including various executions such as; editorial and photo features, social-first initiatives, video series and experiential programs. 

• Attend briefings and brainstorms, bringing a positive mindset and problem solving mentality.

• Build presentation material and present in a confident and engaging manner. Develop decks end-to-end in collaboration with our Design Team. 

• Collaborate with producers on the creative execution of concepts through all stages of production and post, including native editorial, video content, and experiential.

• Build and maintain connections within the local and regional creative communities in order to help connect key creatives with brand money and make great stuff.

• Proactively workshop new ideas and branded content initiatives internally through the various stages of development.

Position requirements: 

• Minimum 5+ years professional experience in content, media, advertising, or creative work;

• A deep understanding of video content and entertainment;

• A deep and demonstrated understanding of youth culture across music, fashion, streetwear and pop culture 

• Excellent writing skills;

• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills;

• The ability to work under tight deadlines while balancing multiple projects;

• The ability to take on feedback, knock backs, and rebriefs while maintaining positive creative momentum;

• Strong presenting and public speaking skills;

The role is freelance x part time, yet it’s the chance to be an ongoing contributor and collaborator. The daily hours will differ and be flexible to the needs of the project and meetings that arise. It would best suit someone who is already doing other freelance / contract / part time work and this fits into all they do. 

If your experience is of match and you are curious for a chat, please:

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