Darktrace is a global leader in AI for cybersecurity that keeps organizations ahead of the changing threat landscape every day. Founded in 2013, Darktrace provides the essential cybersecurity platform protecting nearly 10,000 organizations from unknown threats using its proprietary AI.
The Darktrace Active AI Security Platform™ delivers a proactive approach to cyber resilience to secure the business across the entire digital estate – from network to cloud to email. Breakthrough innovations from our R&D teams have resulted in over 200 patent applications filed. Darktrace’s platform and services are supported by over 2,400 employees around the world. To learn more, visit http://www.darktrace.com.
Job Description:
At Darktrace, we are building a team of creative, ambitious individuals who are passionate about elevating a world-class blue-chip brand. Our in-house creative agency plays a critical role in shaping how the Darktrace story is told—across digital, print, video, events, and beyond.
We are looking for a highly organised and proactive Creative Traffic Manager to join us on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This is an exciting opportunity to sit at the heart of our creative function, ensuring projects flow efficiently from brief to delivery while maintaining the highest quality standards.
This role will follow a hybrid working model, with two days per week based in our London office. The position is expected to be available from September.
What will I do?
As Creative Traffic Manager, you will be responsible for managing workflows, coordinating resources, and ensuring seamless collaboration across teams. You will:
Own and manage the intake process for new creative requests, ensuring all briefs are complete, clear, and actionable
Facilitate briefings and kick-offs, capturing key requirements and aligning stakeholders
Assess team capacity and workload, prioritising projects based on business needs and deadlines
Allocate resources effectively across internal teams and external agencies where required
Manage and optimise project management tools (e.g. Jira, Asana, Workfront) to track progress and maintain transparency
Drive cross-functional collaboration between creative, marketing, and wider business teams
Monitor timelines and proactively resolve risks or bottlenecks
Review creative outputs to ensure quality, consistency, and alignment with brand standards
Produce regular reporting and insights on workload, performance, and project progress
Identify opportunities to improve processes, workflows, and team efficiency
What experience do I need?
We’re looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced creative environments and brings strong operational discipline alongside creative awareness.
Essential experience:
Experience in a traffic management, project management, or account coordination role (agency or in-house creative team preferred)
Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines
Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Asana, or Adobe Workfront
Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
Confident communicator, able to influence and challenge stakeholders when needed
Ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously
Experience working in a deadline-driven, fast-paced environment
Exposure to a range of creative outputs (digital, web, print, campaigns)
Benefits:
23 days’ holiday + all public holidays, rising to 25 days after 2 years of service,
Additional day off for your birthday,
Private medical insurance which covers you, your cohabiting partner and children,
Life insurance of 4 times your base salary,
Salary sacrifice pension scheme,
Enhanced family leave,
Confidential Employee Assistance Program,
Cycle to work scheme.
Darktrace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Darktrace is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please contact your Talent Partner.
Skills Required
- Experience in a traffic management, project management, or account coordination role
- Agency or in-house creative team experience
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines
- Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Asana, or Adobe Workfront
- Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
- Confident communicator, able to influence and challenge stakeholders
- Ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously
- Experience working in a deadline-driven, fast-paced environment
- Exposure to a range of creative outputs (digital, web, print, campaigns)
Darktrace Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Darktrace and has not been reviewed or approved by Darktrace.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is considered strong in the U.S., with employer-paid medical, dental, and vision noted alongside good networks. Plan quality stands out as a core strength of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off typically includes around 20–21 days of PTO plus paid holidays, with mentions of an additional birthday day. Parental and family leave are also described as part of the offering.
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Affordable Benefits — Employer-paid health coverage for employees—often extended to dependents—reduces premium costs. This makes core medical benefits more financially accessible.
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What We Do
Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security AI, delivers world-class technology that protects over 5,500 customers worldwide from advanced threats, including ransomware and cloud and SaaS attacks. The company’s fundamentally different approach applies Self-Learning AI to enable machines to understand the business in order to autonomously defend it. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the company has 1,500 employees and over 30 offices worldwide. Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine’s ‘Most Influential Companies’ for 2021.
