Senior Creative, Social​/PR

About Halpern & &Accelerate

Halpern and &Accelerate have come together to create a connected agency offering across PR, influencer, social, owned content and paid media - helping ambitious brands earn attention, participate meaningfully in culture and build lasting connections with their audiences.

Together, we’re building a more agile model for modern communications: a lean, high-performing team of multi-skilled experts bringing strong ideas, deep audience and platform understanding, cultural fluency, and exceptional creative and design craft to every brief.

We use AI and emerging technologies intelligently to support the creative process, accelerating exploration, production and optimisation without compromising human judgement, originality or quality.

Our clients include Hawkstone, Five Guys, Pets At Home, The Body Shop, E45, John Frieda, Stanley Black & Decker, Medik8 and Jack Daniel’s.

As a Senior Creative, you’ll play a pivotal, hands-on role in shaping and delivering creative work across our client portfolio, working closely with the Senior Leadership Team and our teams across PR, influencer, social, digital and paid media.

You’re a social-obsessed, culturally fluent creative who understands how people behave across platforms, what drives conversation, and how brands can participate meaningfully in culture. You will be comfortable moving from the first creative thought through to the final asset, with a strong design eye, excellent creative judgement and a genuine commitment to craft and quality.

This is not a traditional, hands-off creative role. You’ll be expected to roll up your sleeves, get stuck in and help make the work - whether that means developing an idea, writing a script, shaping a visual route, art directing content, reviewing an edit, refining a presentation, or solving a production challenge.

You’lll elevate the creative and design output of the agency, setting a high standard for the quality, consistency and effectiveness of our work across Earned, Owned and Paid Media.

• Creative Leadership, Craft and Quality
• Set and maintain a high creative standard across the agency and client portfolio.
• Turn strategic and communications briefs into distinctive, relevant and creatively ambitious ideas.
• Elevate the quality of creative and design output from initial concept through to final delivery.
• Provide clear creative direction across copy, design, art direction, motion, video, content and production.
• Be hands‑on in developing, refining and finishing work rather than simply signing it off.
• Establish clear creative feedback and review processes that help colleagues across the agency produce their best work.
• Ensure brand identity, tone of voice and visual consistency are protected across all touchpoints.
• Earned, Owned and Paid Media Integration
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the distinct roles of Earned, Owned and Paid Media and how they work together.
• Develop ideas that can generate attention and conversation through earned media, live naturally across owned channels and be extended or optimised through paid media.
• Understand how the same creative platform may need to evolve across different audiences, formats and media environments.
• Work closely with PR, influencer, social, digital, paid media, strategy and account teams to deliver joined‑up creative thinking.
• Ensure creative solutions are appropriate to the client objective, audience, platform, budget and stage of the customer journey.
• Social, Culture and Conversation
• Be a leading voice on social across the agency, with a deep understanding of how key platforms work and evolve.
• Develop genuinely platform‑native ideas and content for channels such as Tik Tok, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In, Reddit and…