Creative Services Lead

**Are you ready for a life and career defining personal & professional challenge?**

**‘Empowering people to live their passions’**

Aaqua is a refreshingly new social experience built around people, purpose and passions.
We bring like-minded people, fans, icons, creators and brands together in communities - blending epic original ~content, ~initiatives and epic physical events - centred around M.A.G.I.C.

(M.usic, A.rts & Entertainment, G.ames, I.nterests and C.ommunity).
Our philosophy is to empower people to live their passions in a safe place, with relevant engagement, genuine transparency and a democratised value system.

**Your purpose**

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You are a conductor - guiding the Aaqua Studio team with its tune to create compelling content with internal stakeholders, Creators and Brands, and bringing it to life across our Passion Communities. You will find efficiencies and implement tools to assist and enhance project management. As Creative Services Lead, you will manage and plan all workload through the Studio team, ensuring all projects are resourced correctly and delivered to the brief.

**Your community**

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You will be a member of the Studio Team, within the Purpose & Experience domain. You will be working closely with your lead Lance Peatey - Director of Studio, and regularly liaising with the wider Studio team and key stakeholders across the business. You will also be partnering with cross-functional teams spread globally to ensure consistency and timely deliverables.

**Meet the team**

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Connect with our team members via our LinkedIn page

**Your focus**

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Your contribution will include:

- Serving as a key liaison between various teams to clarify projects, assign resources and ensure all specifications and input are documented, feedback is clear, and can be executed.
- Developing and managing detailed project timelines, asset lists, and leading follow-up with teams to meet challenging deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Monitor scheduling, planning and resource management of projects from original concept through to delivery of final output/s.
- Scheduling a timeline and milestones to manage production to meet project delivery dates.
- Ensuring quality checks on creative output, and feedback loops are working efficiently.
- Tracking issues within projects and deliverables, managing resolutions with stakeholders.
- Prioritising all work for visual designers, copywriters and video editors across Studio team.
- Contributing to the creative process and comfortable leading or participating in brainstorming.
- Identifying and managing a freelance & agency network to help with delivery of Studio needs.

**Your journey**

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Ideally your career journey to date will have given you experience in or exposure to the following:

- You have 7-10 years of experience in creative, media or an integrated agency.
- Proven track record in smoothing out traffic processes and increasing efficiency within a multi-layered team environment.
- Solid understanding of social media marketing and demonstrable experience of managing complex, critical and fast-paced projects.
- Strong organisational skills with great confidence to work with cross-functional teams across various levels of management.
- Eager to learn and share your knowledge with high adaptability skills, as you will be working in an agile start-up environment.
- You are comfortable troubleshooting issues that could slow down the Studio production process.
- You can articulate and provide analysis to ensure the project stays within brand standards.
- You are not afraid to suggest changes to workflows in order to improve efficiencies and cut costs.
- As we are a local to seamless global team to truly connect and collaborate, your business English skills are a must.

**What you'll get**
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**Why work with us?**

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At AAQUA, we are committed to real economic value distribution and this extends to our people. AAQUA is creating a work culture that caters to all your YOU's. Our total rewards package is highly attractive, with generous compensation, options programmes, comprehensive medical coverage and workplace flexibility.

Developing our people is a given and the exposure your will get at AAQUA will see you always evolving, creating opportunities for rapid career advancement. By putting our 'members first' (that includes YOU), you will deliver the unexpected every day. AAQUA's agile focus drives collaboration, ideation and allows you to be your true self, empowers our people and delivers a passionate and fun team.

AAQUA is a diverse and inclusive culture. We want our people to be reflective of our members and commit to a non
- discriminatory culture that does not judge by; age, gender, sexual orientation and gender reassignment, race and colour, disability, religion and beliefs, pregnancy and family responsibilities, education level and all of your YOU's.

**Humans of AAQUA**

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