Design Director

Role:  Design Director  

Location: London, Kings Cross – 3 days in office 

About the role: 

Working in close partnership with the brand's senior stakeholders, you will provide strategic creative leadership and set the standard for impactful, audience driven design across multiple channels. This role relies on the ability to build strong, trusted and collaborative relationships: you’ll work closely with stakeholders, build trust, and bring people with you through clear narrative, persuasive communication, and confident presentation. You will bring a proven record of delivering high value conceptual and crafted design, coupled with the confidence to challenge assumptions, negotiate priorities, and guide teams toward ambitious creative outcomes. With strong judgement and initiative, you will push the boundaries of what great design can achieve, ensuring visual storytelling continues to inspire, engage, and strengthen its connection with audiences. 

 

What you will be doing: 

• Leading a studio of designers, working closely with the client's Marketing and Editorial teams to produce stunning communications, with guidance from OLIVER’s Head of Design and Group Creative Director. 

• Building tight, honest and robust relationships with client stakeholders, being their trusted commercial creative partner. 

• Working closely with the client's Executive Creative Director to ensure total brand consistency throughout all commercial communications. 

• In team collaboration – working hand in hand with the Group Account Director and as a creative partner to the lead conceptual copywriter. 

• Hands on, generating strong craft and conceptual design using industry best practice. 

• Crafting award worthy creative solutions for ATL, BTL and TTL campaigns – from branded toolkits to digital first marketing activity. 

• Being the brand guardian, ensuring quality, accuracy and consistency for the studio’s output. 

• Inter agency collaboration to ensure craft and design standards across external agency projects. 

• Growing and mentoring a team of designers to grow and develop their skills. 

• Influencing and owning look and feel across all products in the brand portfolio. 

• Taking responsibility for the flow and quality of work produced in a timeefficient manner. 

• Handling multiple projects simultaneously in a fastpaced environment. 

• Staying on top of industry trends in art, illustration, AI, typography, advertising and the wider media landscape. 

 

What you need to be great in this role: 

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