Creative Lead

ALEA Open · verified Sep 10, 2026

Barcelona Senior Creative

Senior Creative role at ALEA. Barcelona.

Role brief

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What you'll do

Set Alea’s creative direction around its brand and business goals
Lead the design team by defining priorities, objectives, and KPIs
Own the brand identity, guidelines, and standards across teams and channels
Direct campaigns, exhibition booths, video, and photography with external partners
Keep thumbnail production consistent and on schedule across more than 23,000 games

What you bring

Senior-level creative leadership and experience developing a design or creative team
Strong background in brand strategy, visual identity, and values-led brand building
Experience taking creative work from first concept through final delivery
Experience with exhibitions, trade shows, photography, video, and production partners
Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills, plus strong communication and stakeholder management

Who this fits

You’ll suit a hands-on creative leader who can move between strategic direction, team leadership, stakeholder presentations, and direct execution. The role is based in Barcelona with a hybrid work model, flexible start and finish times, and reduced working hours in August.

From the employer

About the role

The Creative Lead at Alea will shape and lead the company’s creative vision, ensuring a consistent and impactful brand expression across all channels, projects, and teams.
Reporting directly to the Head of Marketing, this hands-on leadership role combines brand strategy, creative production, and team management. The ideal candidate will be equally comfortable developing creative concepts, presenting ideas to stakeholders, and actively supporting the team in bringing them to life.

Key Responsibilities

Shape and lead Alea’s creative vision in alignment with the company’s brand and business objectives.
Lead and develop the design team by setting clear priorities, objectives, and KPIs.
Own and evolve Alea’s brand identity, guidelines, and creative standards.
Translate Alea’s mission, vision, and values into a strong and consistent brand experience.
Lead the creative development of marketing campaigns across digital and offline channels.
Lead exhibition booth design and production in collaboration with the Event Manager.
Lead video and photography projects, including briefing and coordinating external production partners.
Oversee thumbnail creation workflows across a portfolio of more than 23,000 games, ensuring quality, consistency, and timely delivery.
Act as the main creative point of contact across departments.
Manage relationships with creative agencies, freelancers, suppliers, and production partners.
Contribute directly to creative execution when projects require hands-on support.

Skills & Experience Required

Proven experience in a senior creative or creative leadership role.
Experience leading and developing a design or creative team.
Strong knowledge of brand strategy and visual identity development.
Ability to translate a company’s mission, vision, and values into a cohesive brand identity.
Experience leading creative projects from initial concept to final delivery.
Strong understanding of marketing campaigns, creative performance, and data-informed decision-making.
Experience leading exhibition or trade show projects, including production and on-site execution.
Experience leading photography and video productions and coordinating external partners.
Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite; experience with 3D design tools is highly valued.
Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and organisational skills.
A proactive, collaborative, and hands-on approach that balances strategic thinking with execution.

What We Offer

A competitive salary package based on your experience.
An impressive benefits package, focused on our culture of integral health that includes medical insurance, gym with personal trainer, sauna and hyperbaric chamber, and fresh fruit every day.
Tax-advantageous wage benefit: Meal card, transport package and other measures such as childcare allowance.
Discount on Veg it (vegan meals) to order your lunch at the office.
Flexible start and finish times.
Reduced working hours in August.
23 holidays plus 3 extra days at disposal
Hybrid Work Model.
English classes
Parking benefit for those who live outside of Barcelona.
And what we are very proud of, you will join a young, motivated and powerful team with a great team culture. As it’s not all work, we maintain the team spirit with team building events, parties and workshops where you can enjoy our achievements. When you leave in the afternoon, you can join our paddle tennis games near the office.