Creative Director Visual Design

WONGDOODY; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global creative agency in London is seeking a visionary Creative Director to lead innovative design projects. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing bold ideas, mentoring a team of UI designers, and shaping the creative direction across digital products. With a commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion, the agency offers competitive benefits including medical insurance, a pension package, and flexible hours, making it an attractive workspace for talented individuals.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Competitive pension package

Travel insurance

Flexible summer hours

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading and executing creative strategies across brands.
• Expert in storytelling, innovation, and usability in UI-focused creative work.
• Ability to manage and up-skill design teams effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of UI designers to create compelling digital experiences.
• Shape the creative direction for websites, apps, and marketing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to push creative boundaries.

Skills

Leadership

Creative Direction

Collaboration

Presentation Skills

Strong Understanding of Digital Trends

Figma Expertise

Adobe Creative Suite Proficiency

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

We’re looking for a visionary Creative Director who can lead with imagination and craft. You’ll contribute to a robust New Business pipeline, manage a team of UI designers, and personally shape the creative direction of websites, apps, digital products, and marketing. You understand that great design goes far beyond the functional—it pushes boundaries, delights users and delivers business results.

What You Will Do

You will:

• Develop bold, conceptual ideas that inspire clients and teams, turning strategy into visually stunning, emotionally resonant digital experiences.
• Lead and mentor a team of designers, fostering growth, collaboration, and creative excellence.
• Play a key role in new business efforts—crafting compelling design narratives and bringing creative magic to pitches and proposals for both digital product experiences and marketing.
• Own the visual design vision across engagements, setting creative standards, design principles, and quality benchmarks.
• Provide creative governance and escalation support across client accounts and delivery teams.
• Work hands‑on across all phases of product development, from creative ideation and concepting to launch to optimization.
• Collaborate with strategy, UX, and tech teams to push the creative thinking and deliver standout work.

Qualifications

You have:

• A portfolio showing high craft and visually striking design, with a proven track record in leading and executing creative strategies across diverse brands, campaigns, and digital platforms.
• Experience driving high‑level creative direction while collaborating closely with leadership, design, product, engineering, and marketing teams.
• Experience driving ideation from a creative standpoint with cross‑functional teams.
• Proven experience leading creative on pitches and converting new business opportunities.
• A strong pulse on digital trends, tools, and methodologies to elevate brand and user experiences. With emphasis on any innovations in AI that can aid the design and production process.
• Proven experience leading UI‑focused creative work that blends storytelling, innovation, and usability.
• Experience managing and up‑skilling high‑performance teams.
• The ability to take strategic direction and leap into unexpected, inspiring creative territory.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills with experience managing design teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, especially in client‑facing and pitch environments.
• Expert level skills in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite and familiarity with prototyping tools and AI‑enabled workflows and creative delivery.
• Experience in fast‑paced, collaborative environments with iterative workflows.
• Experience working with offshore, near‑shore, or distributed delivery teams.

THE PERKS

We’ll pay you to come work here, because we’re generous like that. On top of your salary, you’ll receive a whole lotta benefits to help keep you healthy, secure, and balanced. You’ll get great medical, and dental insurance, a competitive pension package, travel insurance, and flexible summer hours to name a few.

ABOUT US

We are WongDoody. 2000 innovators, creators and designers in 22 studios across the world.

We create human experiences. Tell big stories for bold clients. Use design to save lives. For the past 30 years, WongDoody has been recognised as one of the most creative and innovative companies by Cannes Lions, Fast Company and EY, among others.

Since our founding, we have won hundreds of global awards for advertising, branding, experience design and strategy, while building a culture that consistently makes WongDoody one of the "Best Places to Work". We recognise that our people and our values are paramount to our success. Now an Infosys company, our culture remains the same—open, inclusive and curious—rooted in Creative Democracy formed by our founders, Tracy Wong and Patrick Doody.

WongDoody is a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer where we are committed to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive workspace regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We are intentional about creating a space that celebrates, embraces, and also reflects the diversity of the world we live in. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

All candidate information is kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.