Creative Lead
Lead Your Golf Travel’s in-house creative studio — shape bold, emotionally engaging branding across channels and inspire a small, high-impact team.
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Your Golf Travel is the worlds largest golf travel specialist providing golf breaks and holidays across more than 3,000 locations in 22 countries, including the UK, Ireland, Europe, and beyond. Since our launch in 2004, we have seen swift expansion and now boast a team of over 180 professionals based in our offices in London, Brighton, St Andrews, and Killarney. Throughout this journey, we have established incredible relationships with our suppliers and customers, created an extensive array of exceptional travel products and experiences, garnered numerous awards... and this is only the beginning!
At Your Golf Travel, we are driven by our "Always Going The Extra Yard" values, a set of four core principles that define how we work and who we are. We put the Customer First, Always, using empathy and deep insight to consistently exceed expectations. We believe in the power of the collective to Own it, Together, combining personal accountability with high-pace collaboration to deliver results. Our team is encouraged to Think Smart, Act Bold, challenging convention with an ambitious, entrepreneurial spirit that knows no limits. Finally, we maintain The Expert Edge by constantly evolving, learning, and pushing boundaries to ensure we are always going that extra yard for our clients.
As we continue to scale, our ambition is to transform our brand positioning and visual identity: moving from a quite functional, dated look to emotionally engaging, distinctive, creatively bold, and impossible to ignore.
This is a pivotal role in that transformation.
What You’ll Be Doing:
We’re looking for a Creative Lead to head our creative studio: a strong mid-weight designer to elevate the creative output of Your Golf Travel and setting a new standard for design, storytelling, and brand consistency across every touchpoint.
You’ll lead a small but high-impact in-house team (Designer + Senior Promotional Content Producer), while also leveraging some (limited) freelancers and external partners to deliver best-in-class creative.
This role is about more than delivery: it’s about raising the bar. Pushing boundaries. Creating work that cuts through. And ensuring our new brand guidelines are not just followed, but brought to life in a way that drives engagement, emotion, and commercial impact.
Creative Leadership & Brand Excellence
Own and elevate the visual and creative direction of the brand across all channels
Ensure consistent, high-quality application of brand guidelines across all assets
Translate brand strategy and specific briefs into standout creative executions that drive engagement and performance
Act as the guardian of creative quality, challenging briefs and outputs to reach a higher standard
Push the team (and stakeholders) beyond “safe” to deliver distinctive, memorable work
Ensure the brief puts customer insight/research/data at the heart of all briefs where possible
Creative Delivery & Production
Oversee the end-to-end creative process from briefing through to final execution
Lead and refine the creative briefing process, ensuring clarity, ambition, and effectiveness
Creation of templates that enable other teams to self-serve or drive efficiency where it makes sense
Ensure creative is delivered within expected timelines, on brand, and at the highest possible standard
Content & Production Management
Oversee video and photography production to ensure brand consistency aligned with guidelines, but also to push boundaries of effectiveness.
Consider building and manage a trusted network of external creative partners (videographers, photographers, editors, motion designers) to use as needed. Ensure they are briefed, commissioned, and guided effectively.
Ensure all content produced is platform-optimised and aligned to channel best practice (social, paid, web, CRM)
Team Leadership & Development
Line manage, develop and motivate a Designer and Senior Content Producer (with motion/video capability)
Set clear creative standards and provide hands-on feedback and direction
Drive the team’s learning and development, including:
Creative inspiration and trend awareness
Software and tool advancement (e.g. eg AI tools)
Equipment and production capability upgrades
Foster a culture of craft, curiosity, and continuous improvement
Innovation & Creative Progression
Stay ahead of trends in design, video, social content, and emerging formats
Introduce new ways of working, tools, and formats that improve output and efficiency
Champion test-and-learn creativity, using performance insights to evolve and optimise
Play a key role in embedding and evolving new brand guidelines across the business
What We’re Looking For:
Experience:
Proven experience in a Creative Lead, Art Director, Mid-weight designer role
Demonstrate a strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality, commercially effective creative work
Experience managing multi-channel campaigns esp digital first (digital, social, CRM, web, paid media)
Experience overseeing photography production and video edits
Previous line management in design
Skills:
Essential
Exceptional design eye and attention to detail
Strong understanding of brand building vs performance creative
Ability to push creative boundaries while staying commercially grounded
Confident stakeholder management: able to challenge and influence
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Passion for craft, storytelling, and creating work that stands out
Experience in travel, sport, or lifestyle brands
Some familiarity with AI creative tools (basic at least)
Desirable
Motion/video editing experience
Personal Attributes
Driven and proactive
A creative mind, buzzing with ideas
Positive, can-do attitude
Strong sense of ownership and accountability: effective and delivers their work when its needed.
Naturally collaborative style
Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
Aways keen to learn, try new approaches and invest time developing their team
🌟 Why Join Us?
🏖 Annual Leave – 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 day per year of service (up to 28 days), plus the option to buy back up to 5 extra days each year.
✈️ Amazing Travel Perks – Enjoy familiarisation trips to top golf and holiday destinations in the UK and overseas, plus exclusive discounts on golf holidays, flights, and hotels.
🏆 Recognition & Rewards – Be part of our annual company away trips for top performers and benefit from structured training and personalised development plans.
🏌️ Exclusive Brand Discounts – Save on top golf and sports brands, including Taylormade, Under Armour, and Ping.
💪 Health & Wellbeing – Subsidised health club memberships, a fully funded Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and a Cycle to Work scheme.
🚗 Sustainable Travel Benefits – Access our Electric Car scheme with Octopus EV and make your commute greener.
📈 Growth & Development – Receive honest feedback, regular coaching sessions, and the opportunity to grow within a dynamic and supportive team.
Your Golf Travel are an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.
Ready to help us deliver world-class travel experiences?
Apply now and go the extra yard with us.
- Department
- Customer Marketing
- Locations
- Head Office - London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
About Your Golf Travel
Your Golf Travel started with an idea that two young golf enthusiasts had in the Summer of 2005, having spotted a gap in the market for discounted golf travel packages.
In July 2005, Ross Marshall and Andrew Harding invested everything they had (including two hefty credit card loans!) into marketing their vision for an affordable, online golf travel supplier. Initially operating from a bedroom in London, the idea has since developed into a thriving business of 200 staff.
Now in its 20th year of trading Your Golf Travel has become the largest golf travel company in the world, with an annual turnover of over £100 million, sending on average 200,000 golfers on holiday every year and operating across over 30 countries globally.
Our Head Office is based in central London - specifically the vibrant and bustling hotspot of Farringdon and now have regional offices in Brighton, St Andrews, Killarney, The Algrave, Alpharetta (USA), and Atlanta (USA).
Our group of companies has grown over the years, and is now also home to our sister companies: Premiergolf.com, Walker Sports, Destination Golf Services, Racingbreaks.com and Out of Office.
As we continue to grow our presence we are investing signifiantly in our people, with a focus on learning & development and career development. We embrace a culture of high performance, whilst retaining the thing that make us such a great place to work, fun!
We are always keen to hear from passionate individuals with a love for travel and/or Golf who would love to join our team!