Creative Director

about dishpatch

Dishpatch delivers the best restaurants to every home in the UK.

At Dishpatch, we believe the best chefs deserve the biggest tables: incredible food shouldn’t be confined to the lucky few that live in the city. We’re taking great food further and wider than anyone has gone before, by partnering with the most talented chefs and restaurants to deliver their restaurant meal kits nationwide.

Since we began in 2020, we’ve partnered with the likes of Angela Hartnett, Ottolenghi, Michel Roux Jr and St. JOHN to deliver over 120,000 meals across the country. We've raised >£10m from the World's leading venture investors including Andreessen Horowitz and LocalGlobe.

Our sights are set on building a category-creating brand that restaurants and diners truly love. In 2022, we’re continuing to rapidly increase the diverse range of chefs we partner with and meals we create to serve our growing community of diners.

the role

This leadership role, reporting into the CEO, will visually and verbally bring Dishpatch’s brand and communications strategy to life, translating business & marketing strategies into customer-facing concepts. You’ll be a seasoned start-up or scale-up Creative leader that has led visionary brands and managed design, copy and production teams.

You’ll be an expert at visual and written storytelling and deeply understand the digital and print formats for acquisition and retention that help the business scale. This includes understanding formats and design patterns for new channels like TikTok as well as how other social channels have evolved with interaction design.

More specifically, you'll be responsible for:

• Leading & inspiring the creative team
• Overseeing all brand creative & campaigns
• Providing creative vision to match the co-founders’ ambition for the business
• Art direction for photography and video
• Copy leadership and direction to deliver direct response, campaign/creative copy
• Graphic and UI design leadership - especially within a tech enabled business
• Coaching our creative team to grow, use data and be strategic as well as creative
• Leading cross-functional creative briefing sessions to clarify business needs & key deliverables
• Collaborating with internal & external teams by establishing clear processes for briefing and feedback

about you

• 10+ years of experience working in the creative field, in-house and/or agency, ideally in a high growth startup or scale up
• Gravitas and leadership to inspire, motivate and support design and copy teams
• Proven track record of delivering successful brand campaigns across different channels & media
• Digital-first mindset with a strong understanding of social channels, mobile & content marketing
• Experience implementing processes to aid creative execution
• An excellent communicator, both visually & verbally, who is used to presenting/pitching ideas
• Strong portfolio showcasing strategic/conceptual thinking, visual design and storytelling

about us

• We’re transparent. We’re an open book with each other and the restaurants we work with: a genuine partner.
• We’re fast. When we do something, we do it with focus, and we do it quickly.
• We’re detailed. While we move fast, we don’t lose sight of the details, everything we do is thought out and executed to a high standard.

our offer

• Be part of one the fastest growing startups in the UK and contribute to the future of at-home dining.
• Competitive salary and compensation
• 33 days of holiday per year (inc. Bank Holidays)
• Employer contributions to your pension plan
• Meaningful ownership stake in the Dishpatch business
• Trying out our favourite spots to eat with Friday team lunches
• Opportunity to try new menus and take home spare boxes each month
• Employee discount codes on all menus