The Royals

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We cultivate your curiosity

This is our active promise to all current and soon-to-be Royals.

It’s how we talk about our commitment to investing in the key characteristic we value so highly.

In bringing your curiosity out in weird and wonderful ways, we make you a better Royal, us a better agency and help you continue to smash it - day in and day out.

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Creativity powered by diversity, unified by culture

The Royals have always believed diversity was our secret sauce for consistently great creative thinking. That's why we consciously strive to create a positive, supportive and safe environment where everyone can thrive.

It's through our unique and potent culture, that we harness the power of our diverse collective and offer a place where all Royals can bring their authentic selves every day, to share, to celebrate, and contribute; to create our best work…together.

No team-building workshops here

At The Royals, we have action-packed all-agency adventures. We’ve been quad biking in Nelson Bay (2022), ‘laxing in Lorne (2021, 2020), and taking time out in Tasmania (2019). Our annual three-day Royals UNconference serves to celebrate our successes as a team, gives us all some time to unwind and lets us us embrace our #mostinterested ethos.

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Go bigger in Texas

Each year, one very lucky Royal wins a trip to SXSW in Austin, Texas. The winner tends to eat their weight in tacos and attend extremely epic events. Could you be next?

Where the magic happens

Sydney

We opened our Sydney office in Surry Hills in 2014, filling it with mid-century furniture and a boardroom table made from a high school basketball court. The rooftop deck is the perfect place for after work drinks.

Melbourne

We opened our Melbourne office in a Cremorne warehouse in 2011, and did what any ‘normal’ business would do with the excess space - built an office chair racetrack! Now, the place is filled with beautiful Royals and features a boardroom hidden behind a bookshelf.

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Values we love and live by at The Royals.

Camaraderie

We’ve always got each other’s backs and that extends to collaborators and clients, too.

Audacity

Having the swagger and bravery to take risks and fight for ideas that will create change.

Revelry

We love what we do, celebrate our successes, and hit each day with enthusiasm to make a difference.

We are always looking to work and collaborate with the #mostinterested people.

If you think you'd make a good Royal or would love to collaborate, get onto us at membership@theroyals.com.au

Take a sabbatical Down Under

We may have something for you with the Royals’ Adoption Program.

Current Job Vacancies

Creative Artworker

Melbourne or Sydney

The Gatekeeper of Output

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At the Royals, a hefty premium is placed on ideas and the ability to bring them to life. So we love to work with like-minded misfits who understand what that takes.

As a Creative Artworker, your primary focus is to ensure that everything will look as intended across various media. Adding quality control before anything goes out into the world. The gatekeeper of craft, the finishing toucher there to ensure everything remains 'on brand' and on time by producing and dispatching finished art to specifications that meet our client's high expectations. 

HOW YOU WILL SPEND YOUR TIME:

Working closely with the Creative, Design and Delivery teams, you'll be involved in kick-off meetings to highlight production considerations, assist account services to estimate production timings, liaise with external suppliers for quotes, samples, proofs, and roll out campaign artwork to varied specifications and formats.

WHAT YOU'll SPEND YOUR TIME DOING:

  • Artworking finished art and rollout of campaign art to spec both digital and print.
  • Assist account services with estimates on timings.
  • In conjunction with our producers, liaise with printers & suppliers for quotes, samples, proofs etc
  • Implement/enforce efficient production process for account services and design
  • Maintain freelance workstations, software subscriptions
  • Enforce production-oriented workflow for designers (acrobat profiles, colour profiles, font management)
  • Act as custodian for brands, ensuring work is accurate to brand guidelines
  • Clearly articulate rationales for work, responding constructively to feedback
  • Remain current on the production industry landscape in general, sharing findings and expertise with clients and team
  • Build strong relationships with colleagues, assisting them in delivering the best possible outcomes.

WHAT YOU'VE GOT:

  • Minimum of 6 years of studio experience
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and production-focused applications. Figma / Sketch experience is nice to have.
  • Competency in establishing and maintaining a production-oriented workflow including file management, Acrobat profiles, colour profiles and font management 
  • Hands-on knowledge of best practices for production, including colour management, proofing and sign-off procedures
  • A passion for working efficiently with technology and keeping up to date with industry developments
  • By no means mandatory, but familiarity with digital ad delivery systems, AdStream/QuickCut, is always good.
  • A track record of producing accurate and efficient artwork across a range of media within a timeframe
  • Appreciate the time to craft the details, as the craft is key.
  • Excellent communication skills so you can collaborate effectively with designers, account service and creatives. 
  • A healthy double dose of humour, originality and brilliance wouldn't go astray.
  • If your eye twitched at the triple space in the job title, then you're perfect.

Send your application or questions to membership@theroyals.com.au.

Business Director

Melbourne

Wanted: Bonafide Client Whisperer

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The Royals are bolstering our Context gang with a new Business Director in Melbourne.

HOW YOU’LL CREATE UNNATURAL CHANGE

We all know change is inevitable. It's also revealing. Individually and collectively we, and our clients, get what change really is: it's a friction between then and now that you can either resist or interrogate.

The members of our Royals Context gang are client whisperers and razor-sharp strategists, with an insatiable curiosity to get under the bonnet of our clients’ business.

Our Business Directors are masters of managing relationships, problem-solving, and helping to drive creative output and business success.

Reporting to a Group Business Director, you play an integral role in the day-to-day running of the projects of client accounts and key projects, as the go-to person who is comfortable negotiating and supporting to lead the client to achieve the best results.

As a Business Director, you have an understanding of broader business issues and communication solutions. With a passion for “talking the talk”, you are a natural business developer, passionate about relationship building and proactively identifying opportunities to add value beyond brief.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT:

1. Relationships

  • Managing client stakeholder relationships
  • Spot the opportunities to add value
  • Start to develop trusting client/agency relationships by ensuring the team meets the day-to-day client needs with the relevant PM.

2. The Work

  • Supporting the strategists with the development/writing of creative briefs and strategic docs
  • Doing everything you can to inspire the best creative thinking possible
  • Having an opinion on the work, selling it in, fighting for and protecting the integrity of the idea.

3. Owning the brand

  • Do everything you can to understand your client’s business, competitors, consumers, culture, and technology
  • Be the brand champion for all your accounts – ensure all relevant people know the important stuff about your clients’ brands, category, consumers and competitors
  • An interest in developing your strategic capabilities

4. Project Management

  • The ability to think ahead and proactively plan and assign workload based on business and client needs
  • Manage up to your Group Business Director on your accounts relationship and financial health, from forecast tracking, budgets, and project status
  • Partner with PMs on budget recommendations, timelines, work goals, measurements, and training requirements necessary to provide both quality and profitable service to your client
  • Ensure meeting agendas are prepared prior to every client meeting
  • Ensure the team delivers WIP documents and contact reports for every client meeting
  • Know your client’s remuneration model inside out
  • Manage client expectations. Underpromise and over-deliver every time.


5. Leadership

  • Relish in supporting the training, development, and day-to-day management of Business Managers and Business Execs.

WHAT YOU’VE GOT:

Audacity: The Royals are bold, proactive, always questioning and have a truly optimistic approach to our work.

Camaraderie: We’re on each other’s side and always have each other’s back - and that extends to partners, collaborators and clients.

Revelry: You have a positive attitude with a healthy sprinkle of hustle over the top. You love what you do, help celebrate our successes, and head into each day ready to make a difference.

  • A minimum of 4-6 years of agency experience
  • A passion for identifying unique ways to solve a problem or express an idea
  • You are ambitious, driven, and looking for career growth.
  • You’re adept at spinning multiple plates, resilient, and working at a fast pace
  • Solid financial acumen, and a hunger for identifying new opportunities (both current and new clients)
  • Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
  • Experience in multi-channel marketing, the production, and rollout of integrated campaigns
  • Have experience in coaching and mentoring more junior team members.

BEING A ROYAL:

The Royals, are an independent creative company driven to disrupt, engage and entertain, through exceptional creativity, smart use of data, rigorous insights, and no egos.

The Royals’ four cultural pillars driving and enhancing our creativity are:

  1. Inclusion = Belonging
  2. 360-Wellbeing
  3. A Positive Environment
  4. Always Learning

We believe in the power of a diverse and inclusive team to foster connection, collaboration, and better creative thinking.

We take a holistic approach to well-being and a focus on creating a sustainable creative culture via flexibility/hybrid work, our gender-equitable parental leave, and fully-funded 360:Wellbeing program.

Our creative studios are safe, inclusive, and collaborative spaces,  where everyone is treated fairly, and with respect and dignity.

Our active promise is to cultivate your curiosity. The Royals are constantly learning, changing, and evolving to be better, professionally and personally.

The Royals’ talent acceleration program is designed to help you reach your full potential through tailored learning and development, training, and performance goals.

Send your application or questions to membership@theroyals.com.au.

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