Careers
Life is too short for the comfort zone.
That line has opened our careers page for years, and it still filters exactly the right people in. We welcome the innovators and the uncanny thinkers: people who try newer ways and deliver passionate work, knowing some of it will fail, because that is how anyone gets better.
From the founders
We stopped selling deliverables and started owning results
Digibrush began in 2008, unofficially, in the hours between lectures at APIIT. We were still students, we had one client, a local business, and the company ran on whatever time was left after coursework. We divided the work between us: one reading where a client's business needed to go and building the strategy, the other turning that into the creative and technology that delivered it. We formalised the company in 2009, though neither of us had a plan that reached past the next brief.
By 2010 we could commit to it full time. A year later, while most of the market still treated digital as an extension of print, we rebuilt the agency around it. Moving before the shift was obvious was not a one-time bet. Reading where the work is heading before the consensus catches up, and restructuring to meet it, is the same instinct that has carried us through every shift since, including the one under way now. It is the core capability the company is built on, more than any single client win.
The bet underneath the company was that marketing was only one part of the problem worth solving. Over the years the work moved past the campaign into the parts of a client's business that most agencies never reach: sales, operations, technology, and the teams behind them. We stopped positioning ourselves as the people who make the creative and started operating as a commercial growth partner. Growth became the work. Marketing became one input to it.
The hardest problem we solved was not a campaign. It was building the team. The talent we needed did not arrive finished, so we stopped competing for people who were already made and started making them ourselves. We hired for aptitude and appetite over pedigree, took people the larger agencies overlooked, and trained them into the standard the work demanded. Most of the senior team today came up that way.
Most of our clients still arrive through referral, which is the proof of work we trust most: the outcome held up well enough that someone put their name behind it.
Seventeen years and ninety people later, we are no longer two students with one client. What has not changed is the bet the company was built on, that a team here could own the whole problem and be trusted with it. We have been right often enough to keep going.
— Hisham Zulfikar & Fazaal NauferCo-Founders, Digibrush
Inside Digibrush
Day to day, in pictures
What we seek in you
Beyond what's on the CV
Craft over comfort
Good enough rarely survives a second look here. If a layout, a line of copy, or a piece of code technically works but doesn't sit right, we redo it, even against the clock. That instinct to fix what nobody else would have noticed is what this trait is actually testing for, not your portfolio.
Merit over title
Good ideas are not defined by designation. The best idea in the room wins whether it came from a creative director or someone three weeks into their first job. If you need a title to be heard, this will frustrate you.
Appetite for the unfinished
Highly creative content does not always work, and neither does the safe answer. We try things. Some fail in public. Whoever built it is expected to say so and move on, not defend it.
Willingness to be taught
A lot of our best people did not arrive knowing the craft. They arrived willing to be taught, badly at first, by someone who was taught the same way a few years earlier. If you already think you know it all, this room will not fit you.
Who thrives here
Two ways to know if this is a fit
Digibrush runs on client deadlines and work that ships in days, not quarters. Two lists, so you can rule yourself in or out before you apply.
You'll struggle here if you:
- Need a finished brief before you can start thinking
- Want the same task on your desk for months at a time
- Treat a note on your work as a verdict on you
- Expect seniority alone to settle an argument about the idea
You'll do well here if you:
- Can turn a vague client ask into a plan by end of day
- Would rather ship something imperfect than sit on it
- Take feedback on the work without taking it personally
- Are willing to learn a craft from a person, not just a syllabus
Current openings
6 seats open right now
No matching role?
Talent gets hired here before vacancies exist.
If your work is strong and the fit is obvious, we have made roles before. Tell us what you want to be dangerous at.