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About the Role

As a Design Director, you will provide strategic creative leadership for high-profile re-brands, concept generation, and design solutions. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, challenge briefs, drive concept generation, and present with conviction. You will also inspire and guide designers, ensuring high standards of craft, financial efficiency, and production feasibility.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic creative leadership for high-profile re-brands, concept generation, and design solutions.
• Lead multidisciplinary design teams in partnership with Creative Directors and Client Leads.
• Deliver insightful, confident, inspirational, and craft-driven work.
• Act as an agency partner, challenging briefs and driving concept generation.
• Present work with gravitas and conviction.
• Inspire, motivate, and guide designers.
• Ensure high standards of craft, financial efficiency, and production feasibility.
• Manage design budgets and resourcing efficiently in partnership with Client Service teams.

Requirements

• Experienced and inspirational Design Director.
• Solid CPG experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating deep, varied brand exposure.
• Ability to combine big conceptual thinking with a critical eye for crafting detail.
• Tenacity and a 'can-do' attitude.
• Solid experience leading projects within the consumer packaged goods space.
• Broad range of brand identity experience across various industries.
• Confident in leading high-profile re-brands and concept generation.
• Ability to present to senior client stakeholders with a clear rationale.
• Ability to stand up for exceptional work.
• Critical eye for execution and detail.
• Ability to ensure design solutions are visually stunning and technically implementable.
• Natural motivator who can guide and inspire designers.
• Ability to maintain momentum and a positive atmosphere.
• Ability to challenge briefs constructively.
• Ability to understand client business needs.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Desire to work in genuine partnership with Creative Directors, Client Leads, Print Consultants, and client teams.

Skills

• Brand strategy
• Brand design
• Brand engagement
• Brand effectiveness
• Creative leadership
• Conceptual thinking
• Craftsmanship
• Presentation skills
• Team motivation
• Project management
• Budget management
• Interpersonal skills

Location

• Worldwide

Work Type

• Hybrid (approximately four days a week in the office)

Experience Level

• Experienced

Benefits

• Skill development
• Outstanding benefits

About the Company

• At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move people.
• We have 900 creative minds across 17 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds and beliefs, united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients’ brands benefiting their business, people and the planet.
• Our clients include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, HSBC, Tencent, Twitch, Heineken, Reckitt and the BBC.
• WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
• We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
• We are the world’s most awarded brand design agency, with 28 Cannes Lions to our name and Creative Review Annual’s Most Creative Design Agency of the Year 2024.

Equal Opportunity

• Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to or particular characteristics.
• We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.