Hybrid Sales / Growth Director – Creative

at Jellyfish

• Job title: Sales / Growth Director – Creative
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Paris, France

About the role

• Sales / Growth Director responsible for driving growth for Jellyfish’s Creative offering in France. Collaborating across teams to design impactful proposals and close deals.

Responsibilities

• Own Creative pipeline & revenue for France
• Identify, qualify and prioritise Creative growth opportunities with existing and new clients (local and global).
• Build multi-threaded relationships at senior level (CMO, Brand, Digital, e-commerce, CX).
• Translate client challenges into clear Creative + Pencil opportunities.
• Position Jellyfish Creative & Pencil in the market.
• Articulate a compelling Creative value proposition that connects brand, content, media and data.
• Lead conversations around Pencil (AI-powered creative): explain the value, de-risk adoption and design pilots that prove impact.
• Educate clients on how AI, data and media insight can power more effective creative ideas and content production.
• Lead pitches and proposals.
• Drive the end-to-end pitch process for Creative-led and integrated opportunities: brief teams, shape the story, build the commercial proposal and lead the room.
• Collaborate with Creative Directors, Strategists and Media leads to deliver coherent, inspiring and commercially sound responses.
• Ensure proposals are clearly linked to measurable outcomes (brand, performance, efficiency).
• Grow key accounts in partnership with client leads.
• Work closely with Client Management / Client Partner teams to spot and unlock Creative and Pencil upsell opportunities on existing accounts.
• Design Pencil pilots (test & learn) and scale-up roadmaps once value has been proven.
• Help clients evolve their ways of working (process, governance, measurement) around Creative and AI.
• Champion collaboration across the Creative collective.
• Partner with the France Creative leadership and Brandtech Group Creative leaders to align on positioning and go-to-market.
• Mobilise the right mix of skills (social content, film, design, creative strategy, production, data & insights) according to each opportunity.
• Contribute to building and sharing case studies and best practices across France and other markets.
• Market intelligence & thought leadership.
• Stay on top of creative, social, AI and entertainment trends and feed this into client conversations and pitches.
• Represent Jellyfish Creative and Pencil at client meetings, industry events, and internal forums.
• Help position Jellyfish as a reference partner for AI-powered creativity in France.

Requirements

• Solid experience in a business development/growth/sales role in a creative, digital or integrated agency (or hybrid agency–consulting environment)
• Proven track record of winning and growing Creative/content/social assignments with mid-to-large brands.
• Strong understanding of how creative, media, data and technology fit together to drive business outcomes.
• Genuine interest in (and ideally exposure to) AI-powered creative solutions – experience and a strong appetite to learn is essential.
• Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders (CMOs, Brand Directors, Digital Directors) and leading high-stakes pitches.
• Ability to work across local French clients and global accounts, navigating multi-country and multi-stakeholder environments.
• Excellent communication skills in French and English (written and spoken), able to switch seamlessly between strategy, creativity and commercial conversations.
• Collaborative mindset: you thrive in cross-functional teams and know how to build trust with creatives, strategists, media and data experts.
• Strong commercial acumen: comfortable discussing scopes, pricing, profitability and long-term growth plans.

Benefits

• You'll be eligible to join our discretionary annual bonus scheme.
• Work remotely for up to 60% of your days and shape your day between 8am. and 6:30pm with flexible working hours.
• Accumulate one paid day each month (2 hours per week) for self-development and access to Jellyfish Learn.
• Enjoy 14 weeks of paid leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers.
• Provide £1000 (or equivalent) towards courses for returning primary caregivers to support your transition back into work.