Creative Studio Lead

Salary Banding: 65k – 75k per annum (DOE) + Benefits + Bonus & LTIP Programme

Contract type:
Permanent & Full time

Location:
London (Maple St – 4 days a week)

Be Part of Something Big
. Join the Wingstop Team!

At Wingstop, we are not just in the chicken business, we are in the flavour business. Our focus is on delivering exceptional experiences and memorable moments for both our customers and our team.

We have been recognised for our commitment to excellence earning accolades such as (
Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, 2025 & 2026, The UK’s Number 1 QSR Brand 2025 and Deliveroo’s Number 1 Dish in 2025
). But our mission remains simple:
BRING THE FLAVOUR
.

The Creative Studio Lead owns the production, delivery and quality of Wingstop UK & Ireland’s creative output across every channel and consumer touchpoint, running the engine that turns brand vision and strategy into work that lands in market.

This role is responsible for ensuring creative work is strategically strong, culturally relevant, commercially effective and delivered on time, on brand and on budget.

Reporting to the Chief Brand Officer and working in close partnership with the Brand Manager, who owns brand vision and world, the Creative Studio Lead runs creative delivery from brief through to final execution. They manage workflow, production partners, agency relationships and internal stakeholders to ensure campaigns, launches and brand activity move efficiently from idea to execution and land in market at pace.

The role combines strong creative judgement with operational rigour, ensuring the creative engine runs effectively, work gets out the door on time and investment is managed responsibly while holding a high bar for quality and brand distinctiveness.

• Uphold and ope rationalise the creative vision set by the Brand Manager and CBO, translating it into work that ships across all channels and consumer touchpoints
• Turn brand strategy and creative platforms into clear, executable production plans that protect long-term distinctiveness while moving at pace
• Set and hold the quality and delivery bar for campaigns, flavour launches, partnerships, new store openings, social and in store activity
• Ensure creative output strengthens brand consistency, cultural relevance and commercial performance
• Grow into the day-to-day quality control point on creative output, holding sign-off on behalf of the CBO as trust and brand knowledge build over time
• Own end to end delivery of creative projects from briefing and concept development through production, rollout and launch
• Manage creative workflow, prioritisation and delivery schedules to ensure projects are delivered efficiently, on time and at the required quality standard
• Build and maintain clear production timelines, critical paths and ways of working to ensure work moves effectively from concept to execution
• Ensure campaigns and creative assets are delivered accurately and at pace across film, photography, social, OOH, digital, CRM, in store and retail channels
• Remove blockers and drive momentum across projects to ensure creative lands in market on time and supports key trading moments
• Coordinate internal teams, agencies and production partners to ensure alignment, accountability and smooth delivery
• Lead creative production across all campaign and brand activity, ensuring work is delivered efficiently and to a high creative standard
• Manage agency and production partners to ensure projects are executed effectively, timelines are met and outputs deliver against brief
• Own and manage creative and production budgets, ensuring spend is controlled, investment is optimised and projects are delivered cost effectively
• Negotiate scopes of work, production costs and resource allocation to maximise creative impact while maintaining budget discipline
• Make commercial decisions on creative execution, balancing ambition, quality, speed and cost
• Codify, maintain and apply the visual and verbal brand systems that make Wingstop instantly recognisable, in partnership with the Brand Manager who owns their direction
• Create frameworks, toolkits and guidelines that enable teams and agencies to execute consistently at scale
• Ensure brand assets…