Freelance Design Director

Responsibilities

• Define, direct and elevate design across the Creative Studio.
• Lead some of our most ambitious and strategically important projects while helping raise the creative bar across the wider studio.
• Mentor and develop Lead Designers, strengthen team capability and influence the evolution of our creative output through your standards, leadership and taste.
• Take ownership of a key area of creative innovation or capability, helping shape how our Creative Studio grows in the future.

Requirements

• A highly creative and experienced design leader with exceptional creative judgement and the ability to define strong ideas across multiple projects and teams
• Experienced within luxury brand, retail, experiential or agency environments, with a track record of mentoring creatives and elevating team capability
• A confident communicator, presenter and storyteller who can sell ideas and build trust with senior stakeholders
• Someone who balances bold ideas with commercial awareness and understands how to deliver impactful work at scale
• Deeply connected to culture, design and innovation, with curiosity about how our industry is evolving
• Technically confident across industry-standard tools (SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, rendering software etc.)
• Bonus points for:
• Experience shaping new capabilities, services or ways of working
• Interest in emerging tools, AI or evolving creative processes
• Strength in a particular area that could help evolve our Creative Studio over time

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