About the Role
We are seeking an exceptional Design Director to lead high-profile client projects, from concept to implementation, across all brand touch-points. This role involves blending strategic thinking with creative craft, working closely with Creative and Client Directors to inspire a design team and push creative boundaries while maintaining commercial and strategic rigor.
Responsibilities
- Lead a range of high-profile client projects, working across all brand touch-points, from brand identity projects to visual language and campaign work.
- Take projects from concept through to implementation.
- Blend strategic thinking with outstanding creative craft to deliver work that is as meaningful as it is beautiful.
- Work closely with Creative and Client Directors.
- Lead and inspire a talented design team to push creative boundaries while maintaining commercial and strategic rigour.
Requirements
- An experienced creative leader with a proven track record of delivering exceptional design.
- Conceptual thinker with obsessive craft.
- Understands how every brand experience, from pack to digital, tells a story.
- Hands-on when needed.
- Confident directing and inspiring others to do their best work.
- Brings clarity to complexity, confidence to presentations, and curiosity to every creative challenge.
- Collaborative, positive force who motivates those around them.
- Cares deeply about creating work that connects with people in the real world.
Skills
- Brand strategy
- Brand design
- Brand engagement
- Brand effectiveness
- Creative leadership
- Conceptual thinking
- Creative craft
- Presentation skills
Location
- London
Work Type
- Fixed term contract
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced creative leader
Benefits
- Outstanding benefits
- Chance to make your mark on our future
- Opportunity to take new projects to award-winning potential
About the Company
- At Design Bridge and Partners we design brands with the power to move.
- We have 900 creative minds across 17 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds and beliefs.
- We are united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients’ brands benefiting their business, people and the planet.
- Our clients across the world include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, HSBC, Tencent, Twitch, Heineken, Reckitt and the BBC.
- We’re passionate about our people and their careers.
- We’re proud to be 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.
- Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company.
Equal Opportunity
- Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other characteristic.
- 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.
