Strategist - Maternity Cover

At Nice and Serious, we believe in making creative work the world needs. We have our feet firmly on the ground and know the world doesn’t need more of the same. It needs us to draw a line in the sand, and back the people fixing things. It needs us to change minds, and make people demand better.

Our team of 20 people is a mix of filmmakers, strategists, art directors, coders, designers, copywriters, animators and client service. Over the last 15 years we’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the most innovative, purpose-led brands and charities including WHO, Greenpeace, IKEA, YMCA, Switchboard, Unilever, Virgin and WWF. We’re a proud B-Corp and you can find out more about what that means ​here​.

Who we’re looking for

We’re on the look out for a Strategist to join our team for a minimum 9 month Maternity Cover contract with the possibility to extend. We are a hybrid working team with an office in Whitechapel for the days people want to come in.

Here are some more details on the role:

The day to day

• You’ll be finding insight for brand strategy work — including branding projects and campaigns
• You’ll understand audiences and research their wants, needs, lifestyles and what media they engage with
• You'll develop brand strategies, help brand or rebrand clients and come up with communication plans
• You’ll plan and facilitate workshops
• You’ll be comfortable with different research approaches such as stakeholder workshops, surveys, focus groups, interviews and desk research
• You’ll plan across channels and identify key messages for communication strategy work
• You’ll be analysing new trends and figuring out ways brands and charities can connect with people
• You'll be responsible for setting up frameworks to measure campaign effectiveness and impact
• You’ll provide the thinking and reasoning for the creative directions we take and champion this reasoning
• You’ll collaborate with the team to come up with amazing research-led creative ideas and help develop them into full-blown concepts
• You’ll take part in pitches to present our ideas and strategy
• You’ll provide strategic insight for new business proposals and pitch decks

The Nice Stuff

We’re all about making Nice and Serious a seriously nice place to be. Here are a few things we do:

• We are a 4.5 day week company (the studio is closed on Friday afternoon).
• Work from home or office flexibility.
• Flexible working hours and policy.
• Holiday allowance of 25 days per annum pro rata (plus three additional days off over the December holiday period). Note, during the 4.5-day week trial this has been prorated down.
• Headspace Subscription
• Spill mental health support platform with access to therapy sessions

The Serious Stuff

Nice and Serious is dedicated to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. ​We’re also proactively committed to protecting the mental, as well as physical, health, safety and well-being and that of all those who work for us.