Design Director

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  • B Corp
  • Amazing perms

    • About Our Client

    Our client are a talent-driven, game changing, branding agency with offices in London and LA. Since 2020, they have been growing a team of the world's best thinkers, most talented creatives and restlessly curious minds in a collaborative, ego-free culture that nurtures creative ambition and stokes a fire of inspiration through out the whole creative industry. They are a B-Corp Certified, proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion, genuinely not just half heartedly.If you can't beat the best, you might as well join them.

    Job Description

    What you'll do:

  • Be responsible for leading projects and pushing boundaries-alongside a team of seniors, mids and juniors with oversight from Creative Directors
  • Be responsible for the development of designers into the best of the best-working alongside them to get the most out of them through mentoring and showing them how it's done
  • Collaborate with strategists, writers, producers and the creative team to deliver work that is bold, conceptual and different
  • Be ultra confident in leading and delivering presentations of your team's work to clients, inspiring them to make creative leaps
  • Relish diving into any stage of the creative process to assist, encourage or recover the work of others

    • The Successful Applicant

    What they are after for the Role:

  • Currently a Design Director or an experienced Senior Designer looking to take things up a gear, backed by an agency who believes in them to take it up to a whole other level
  • 7+ years industry experience
  • A talent spotter with strong relationships with other freelance designers and contributors
  • Have experience creating brands for digital-first businesses
  • Have experience leading multiple creative projects at the same time, with light-touch oversight from a Creative Director
  • Be a self-driven leader with a curious mind and zero ego
  • Be a font of technical design knowledge with a keen eye for detail and a drive for creative perfection in yourself and others
  • At ease with the buck stopping with you
  • Have your finger on the pulse of current trends in the world of design / art / fashion / creativity and bring that information and enthusiasm for popular culture into the Studio everyday
  • Know when to stand up for your creative vision and when to support the opinions of your team or clients

    • What's on Offer

    The Perks..:

  • Salary £73,500-£79,000 (DOE) + Bonus Opportunities
  • We operate a profit share scheme with everyone in the agency, because we believe everyone should share in the success of the entire team
  • 39 Day Holiday allocation - 28 days holiday + 8 bank holidays + Christmas shutdown
  • 2 days WFH per week
  • Early finish Fridays
  • 2-week work-from-anywhere opportunities (time zone dependent)
  • Sabbatical policy of up to 3 months after you've been with the company for 2 years
  • £1,000/year skills & training allowance
  • We offer free breakfast, snacks and drinks in our beautiful kitchens
  • Regular studio learning lunches, head out to talks together, and every other Thursday we wrap up early to hold courses (accompanied by pizza & drinks) in the studio
  • Tickets to events like It's Nice That's 'Nicer Tuesdays', or industry talks and design conferences
  • Summer and Winter parties
  • B-Corp Certified, which means our agency meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability
  • Maternity and Paternity packages
  • Maternity
  • 90% of your average weekly earnings (before tax) for the first 6 weeks
  • 80% for the next 20 weeks (a total of 6 months)
  • Statutory after that up to 33 weeks
  • Paternity
  • 100% of your weekly earnings (before tax) for 4 weeks
    • Apply
    Location:
    London
    Job Type:
    FullTime

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