Art Director

Date: August 15, 2026

Location: South East England

Country: GB

Postal Code: KT19 8GY

Application Deadline: September 14, 2026, 13:13:53.583

tmp helps B2B marketing leaders create coherence in a chaotic world. We're looking for obsessively curious people to join us. You'll join 300 B2B experts across strategy, data, creative, media, client services, sales activation, and shared services. Different skills brought together in integrated teams, centred around our clients: the world's most impactful tech companies. So, if you're interested in what makes the world work, if you find solving complex problems fun, and you love making the answers as simple as possible, then we'd love to hear from you.

What we are looking for

We have serious ambitions for our creative work. We're looking for an Art Director who shares them. Someone who wants to make work people wish they'd made. We want a thinker with a designer's eye. Someone with taste, curiosity and an unreasonable level of ambition for the work. Someone who understands emotion and knows how to use creativity to make people feel something.

Working as one half of a conceptual creative team, you'll have real creative ownership of one of our biggest global clients - setting the visual direction, steering the work and constantly looking for opportunities to make it better. And, when exciting creative opportunities land elsewhere around the Agency, we want you there too.

You won't be buried in production, but you'll know your craft well enough to direct it - and be dangerous on the tools when you need to be. Your portfolio matters more to us than a checklist of experience. Show us ideas. Show us beautiful things. Better still, show us both.

What you will do

Turn strategy into an idea, not just a visual response
Get in early on briefs and help find the thought everything else hangs from
Set and steer the visual direction of a major global account
Protect the idea as it travels - guide the work through the studio
Build distinctive visual worlds around campaigns, brands and ideas
Present creative thinking to clients and bring them with you
Direct designers and makers - and lead through the tools when showing is better than telling

Who you are

You see the brief as a starting point, not a set of instructions
You think in ideas as naturally as you think in images
You understand that emotion is a creative tool, not just an outcome
You look beyond advertising for inspiration
You have taste, but you're curious enough to challenge it
You care about craft, but never at the expense of the idea
You're ambitious for the work, whoever's name is on it

What you will need

4+ years' experience in a design-led creative role. Agency experience, B2B or B2C.
A portfolio that shows ideas as well as execution
Strong design craft and art direction
We are open to meeting established creative partnerships.

What we offer in return

Generous holiday allowance (Plentiful PTO)
Shutdown between Christmas and New Year
Private healthcare and dental insurance
Group income protection
Salary sacrifice pension scheme
Access to well-being coaching or counseling sessions once a week
Financial health support
Parental leave - 12 Weeks Full Pay for Primary Carers and an additional 50% pay for 12 more weeks
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Sustainable Future Giving: donating to plant trees, tracking impact, and reducing emissions
Diversity and inclusion initiatives

We are committed to building a diverse team because diversity fuels creativity and better results for everyone. We encourage applications from all backgrounds. If you need any accommodations during the process, just let us know.

As an employee of tmp, we expect you to remain up to date with information security training and policies, and the company policies set out in your contract. For management roles, this includes ensuring members of your team undertake relevant training and adhere to company policies.

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tmp helps B2B marketing leaders create coherence in a chaotic world. We're looking for obsessively curious people to join us. You'll join 300 B2B experts across strategy, data, creative, media, client services, Sales activation, and shared services. Different skills brought together in integrated teams, centred around our clients: the world's most impactful tech companies. So, if you're interested in what makes the world work, if you find solving complex problems fun, and you love making the answers as simple as possible, then we'd love to hear from you. What we are looking for We have serious ambitions for our creative work. We're looking for an Art Director who shares them. Someone who wants to make work people wish they'd made. We want a thinker with a designer's eye. Someone with taste, curiosity and an unreasonable level of ambition for the work. Someone who understands emotion and knows how to use creativity to make people feel something. Working as one half of a conceptual creative team, you'll have real creative ownership of one of our biggest global clients - setting the visual direction, steering the work and constantly looking for opportunities to make it better. And, when exciting creative opportunities land elsewhere around the Agency, we want you there too. You won't be buried in production, but you'll know your craft well enough to direct it - and be dangerous on the tools when you need to be. Your portfolio matters more to us than a checklist of experience. Show us ideas. Show us beautiful things. Better still, show us both. What you will do Turn strategy into an idea, not just a visual response Get in early on briefs and help find the thought everything else hangs from Set and steer the visual direction of a major global account Protect the idea as it travels - guidethe work through the studio Build distinctive visual worlds around campaigns, brands and ideas Present creative thinking to clients and bring them with you Direct designers and makers - and lead through the tools when showing is better than telling Who you are You see the brief as a starting point, not a set of instructions You think in ideas as naturally as you think in images You understand that emotion is a creative tool, not just an outcome You look beyond advertising for inspiration You have taste, but you're curious enough to challenge it You care about craft, but never at the expense of the idea You're ambitious for the work, whoever's name is on it What you will need 4+ years' experience in a design-led creative role. Agency experience, B2B or B2C. A portfolio that shows ideas as well as execution Strong design craft and art direction

We are open to meeting established creative partnerships. What we offer in return Generous holiday allowance (Plentiful PTO) Shutdown between Christmas and New Year Private healthcare and dental insurance Group income protection Salary sacrifice pension scheme Access towell-beingcoaching

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