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We help cities, regions, national bodies and brands understand how places are experienced and made to work - for the people who live in them as much as the people who visit.\nFor fifteen years we have delivered projects in over twenty countries across four continents. We are twenty people across Athens, Dublin and London.\nWe have worked with European Travel Commission, UN Tourism, UNDP, EBRD, Amsterdam & Partners, Glasgow Life, Historic Environment Scotland, Visit Belfast, Mastercard, Alpha Bank, Coca-Cola, Aegean, and the Greek National Tourism Organisation.\nWe also create and run signature/licensed events and branded assets - Dine Athens, Stay in Athens, Taste of Athens, Around the Table among others.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for a Creative Director to lead the creative direction of our experience platforms and of the TOPOSOPHY brand.\nThis is a role about building identity systems, not just campaigns. Our creative platforms and branded assets run year after year and across different partners and cities, so the creative work has to hold up when it is applied by other people, without us in the room.\nYou will report to the CEO, set the creative standard for the firm, and have real authority over the decisions in your area.\nRequirements\nKey Responsibilities\nEvent Identity & Design\nDevelop and evolve the visual and verbal identities of our event platforms\nBuild the guidelines, systems and toolkits that keep them consistent wherever they run\nDefine what remains fixed and what can adapt across partners, audiences and cities\nTranslate identities into real-world applications across digital, print, signage, environments and event experiences\nThe TOPOSOPHY Brand\nOwn and evolve the TOPOSOPHY visual identity\nLead the creative direction of our website, presentations, pitches and proposals\nBuild systems and templates that raise the quality and consistency of creative work across the firm\nCreative Leadership\nSet and hold the creative standard across the business\nLead a Brand Designer and direct external creative partners across photography, film, illustration and motion\nReview work, give clear direction and make creative decisions when there are competing views\nBring new ideas, references, collaborators and creative networks into the firm\nBuild effective AI-assisted creative workflows that improve the quality and speed of the team's work\nSkills & Profile\nBackground\nSubstantial experience in brand and identity design at senior, lead or Creative Director level\nA strong portfolio of brand and identity work showing systems rather than one-off executions\nA track record of creating identities that other people have had to apply - through guidelines, toolkits, multi-market or multi-partner rollouts\nExperience with a city, cultural institution, festival, museum, hospitality brand or place brand - or a convincing case for why your experience transfers\nExperience leading designers and directing external creative suppliers\nStudio, in-house brand or consultancy backgrounds are all relevant. Agency campaign backgrounds are welcome where the systems work is there\nFluent English; Greek is a strong advantage\nBased in or willing to relocate to Athens, with some travel to UK/Ireland and our other markets when required.\nTechnical\nExpert in Adobe Creative Suite - particularly Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop - and Figma\nTypography at a high level: type selection, pairing, licensing, and commissioning or adapting typefaces where a project calls for it\nStrong understanding of colour systems, accessibility and contrast standards, and how identities behave across print, screen, environmental and large-format applications\nBrand guideline authoring - able to turn creative decisions into clear rules that other people can understand and apply\nDesign systems, component libraries and file architecture that allow teams to work consistently and efficiently\nArt direction of photography, film, illustration and motion, including briefing, commissioning and sourcing\nComfortable specifying for print production and fabrication, including stock, finishes, signage, wayfinding and event environments\nPresentation and pitch design - Keynote, PowerPoint and Figma - to a standard that stands up in front of a client board\nWorking knowledge of web design and front-end constraints, sufficient to brief developers and review implementation\nFluent with current AI creative tools and able to use them at a professional standard, including:\nImage generation and editing for concepting, visual exploration, mood and art-direction references\nGenerative editing in Photoshop and Illustrator, including fill, expand, retouching, upscaling and object or background work\nVideo and motion generation for animatics, pitch material, prototypes and social assets\nPrompting as a creative skill: able to art-direct models towards a specific result rather than simply generate options\nGood judgment about when AI is useful - and when the right answer is to commission, photograph, film, illustrate or design properly\nStrong awareness of rights, provenance, brand risk and client sensitivity, particularly when working with public-sector and institutional clients\nHow You Work\nDecisive. You form a view, argue it clearly and commit. You are comfortable being the person who makes the creative call.\nSystems-minded. You think in rules, relationships and applications, not just individual artefacts.\nCommercially literate. You understand that budget, margin, production realities.\nSelf-starting. You do not wait for a perfectly formed brief. You bring ideas, references and provocations of your own.\nSteady under pressure. Events have fixed dates. You can protect quality when the deadline does not move.\nDirect and collaborative. You give and take critique without ceremony and work well with strategists, researchers, marketers and event teams who are not designers.\nCurious about place. 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