Freelance Design Director

Company: Jobtailor
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Location: London
Job Description:

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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Posted: July 10th, 2026