Design Director

About the role

You'll lead major branding and experience projects end-to-end from strategy through to delivery, setting the creative vision and holding the bar for the business.

Responsibilities

• Develop brand identities, design systems and creative platforms
• Stand in front of senior clients to present and defend the thinking behind them
• Work across brand, motion and immersive experience under one roof
• Mentor designers and help build a multidisciplinary team
• Work directly with global leadership across the New York and London studios

Requirements

• Spent ten or more years in branding or design, most likely as a Design Director, ACD or senior Creative Director at a recognised agency
• Led complex identity and design-system projects from discovery to delivery
• Your portfolio pairs strategic thinking with high craft
• Ran and mentored teams
• Confident with senior stakeholders
• Comfortable with the ambiguity of building a studio rather than inheriting one

Qualifications

• A more diverse team is a more creative team

Skills

• Strategic thinking
• High craft
• Team leadership
• Client-facing presentation skills

Benefits

• Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave
• Annual exchange program with global studios, including immersion trips
• Dedicated annual budget for charitable giving
• Learning and development opportunities focused on emerging software
• Long service awards
• Certified Carbon Neutral business

Pay

$165,000 - $175,000

Schedule

Hybrid working