Design Director

Overview

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.

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 standards, leadership and taste.
• Take ownership of a key area of creative innovation or capability, helping shape how the Creative Studio grows in the future.

Qualifications

• A highly creative and experienced design leader with exceptional creative judgement and the ability to define strong ideas across multiple projects and teams
• Experience 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 the industry is evolving
• Technically confident across industry-standard tools (SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, rendering software, etc.)

ATS Optimization Keywords

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Hard Skills

• design leadership
• creative judgement
• mentoring
• project management
• creative innovation
• commercial awareness

Soft Skills

• communication
• presentation
• storytelling
• team capability development
• trust building

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