Enjoy doing work that matters?

Then make it matter more with us.

At Neo, what unites us more than anything is our belief that brand and communications have the power to bring people together to achieve great things. Call us idealists, but we know that an equal, caring and conscious world can exist if we do things differently, if we unite our efforts to make change happen.

And change starts with ourselves. We work hard to nurture an open, inclusive and egalitarian culture in our team. We’re a diverse bunch in many ways, we consider ourselves incredibly supportive and we don’t stand for discrimination of any kind.

Permanent roles

Become a Neo design partner

Initial contract: Associate partner (on freelance basis)
Then option to move to: Neo business partner (company directorship)

We’re looking for a senior, purpose-centred and detail-driven creative who dares to do things differently. Someone who shares our belief that we can always do more together, and to dream big about the possibilities of exceptional purposeful communication.

Do you feel ready to…

up your game?
To co-create some of the best, most meaningful work of your career and — with that — make more difference to causes you care about.

to be part of something special?
To help us build on our 23 years of making groundbreaking solutions to some of our greatest problems matter more.

to have the best of both worlds?  
To collaborate on projects with more scope and sense of ownership than the average freelance work, as part of a committed team, while enjoying the freedom, flexibility and agency that comes with being co-owner of a small, dynamic and purpose-driven business.

What does it mean to be a partner at Neo?
We’re not looking for an ‘employee’. This role is for a committed colleague — and, ideally, further down the road, a business partner. But from the outset, we do expect you to bring personal investment and share the belief that together we can create deeper connections and positive change through identity, culture and communications.

Collaboration is hugely critical for us. We’re looking for someone with whom we can build on what we feel is something special, not just in our work but also in our team culture. So, ethos must be as important to you as experience and skill.

Must haves

Experience designing for brand, campaign identity and multi-channel communications
Multi-discipline design skills and experience across a range of communication environments (including user-centred digital design)
Curious, creative, courageous approach
Dedication to detail, exceptional quality and finishing the job
Honest, communicative and collaborative
Strong conceptual, creative thinker
Enquiring, active and intent listener
Confident or at least willing facilitator
Committed to self-development and open to trying new approaches

Where we work
We work online and in person, collaborating day to day using tools such as Google Meet, Slack and Miro. And while we’ve become quite proficient at remote working, we value our time together and so we make an effort to meet up as much as possible — most often in Brighton, sometimes in north Wales, but also at events and client meetings across the UK and beyond.

Neo was born out of a drive to do things differently.

More than 23 years ago, we were among the first to break the creative agency mould. Our dedication to exclusively purpose-driven work gave us the mandate to challenge a lot about the agency world that we felt fall short of good practice.

In 2016 we became a founding UK B Corp — now a growing community of companies that meet the highest social and environmental standards. More than a benchmark for business that’s better for our world, the B Corp model embodies mindset and a way of working that values purpose more than profit. For us, and the kind of projects we’re committed to, it means having a positive imprint on people and our planet. So the ‘B’ really does stand for ‘benefit’.

We’re respected across sectors for the rigour of our strategic process and vigour of our creative thinking. Our client partners often don’t come to us with a prescriptive brief; they come to us to help them build it and to understand its possibility. They welcome our challenging yet careful consultation and skilled facilitation, and covet our commitment to their cause and to the high standards we insist on.

Wider permanent roles

Do you want your work to matter more?

Disillusioned with the values of your company or clients?
Feeling disempowered or unable to make meaningful impact?
Have the desire to be part of, but also drive forward, something bigger?

Discover a different way of working, as a Neo business partner.

At Neo, we’re looking for business partner colleagues to join our small, supportive team of dedicated brand, culture, organisational change and communications professionals.

You could be a creative worker (strategist, writer, designer), a digital developer or a relationship builder (HR, business). What matters more than the kind of skills you bring to the table is how you want to use and develop them. What matters most is a mindset for driving positive human change, for doing things right, and for doing them well.

As a certified B Corp, and one of the first few agencies to work exclusively for purposeful organisations, we’re interested in finding partners who share our passion for purposeful impact.

What does business partnership look like?

After an initial period of getting to know each other and working closely on a few projects, you’d have the opportunity to become a partner (usually within six months). This could be with direct share-ownership or as part of our team profit-share scheme.

For direct shares you’d need to make a financial investment. We may also consider a time investment with a corresponding salary sacrifice.

As a business partner you’d take on key responsibilities in helping to move Neo forward on it’s self-development and impact ambitions.

Curious? Get in touch with Nick or Kelly

Freelancers

Are you as dedicated to quality as you are to making a difference?

At Neo, we’re choosy about who we collaborate with on projects. If you’re familiar with our work and why we do it, you’ll understand why. We have a diverse community of collaborators — experienced and skilled strategists, writers, designers, filmmakers, photographers and other professionals who share our ethos. But as we evolve and take on new projects of varying complexity, we’ll need to broaden and freshen up our extended team.

So, who and what are we looking for?

Firstly, creative, strategic, insightful professionals who share our commitment to serving people and the planet before our profit margins. People who share our high standards of work. Who can bring in-depth subject knowledge and experience of social and/or environmental projects to the table.

If that’s you, ideally you’ll have contributed to complex, purpose-centred identity projects and campaigns, involving robust research processes and a deep level of strategic and creative thinking.

You’ll care passionately about finding what matters in a project and then making it matter more. You’ll be willing to invest yourself wholeheartedly, from start to finish. And be as dedicated to quality as you are to making a difference.

Building meaningful, lasting relationships will be as important to you as it is to us. Making positive connections is exactly what our work is all about. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we don’t consider ourselves to be service-providers; we prefer to call the people and organisations we support ‘partners’ rather than clients.

You’ll be curious, open, and willing to learn as well as share. Working with us means being part of a genuinely open, challenging and conscious culture — one that we, as a self-organised team, are always trying to improve and nurture.

Interested in joining our collaborator community?

To apply drop us a line below — telling us why you’d like to work with us — along with your CV, examples of your work, and your project fees or day rates.

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Enjoy doing work that matters? Then make it matter more with us.