Design Director

Craft Agency Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Certified B Corp

Personal training budgets

Career coaching

Three-month sabbatical after fouryears

Private medical insurance & mental健康

Enhanced pension, maternity, paternity

Job summary

Craft Agency Ltd in London is seeking a Design Director to own the creative outcome from strategy to execution, leading both digital and physical brand work.

You will unite strategists, writers, designers and client partners to push for genuinely great identity systems that scale, guiding cross‑disciplinary teams and challenging clients to raise the bar. Hybrid model with three studio days per week.

Qualifications

• Senior Designer or Design Director from a craft-driven branding studio.
• Portfolio is distinctive, concept-first identity work built to scale: brand creation and rebrands rather than campaigns.
• Lead across the full arc of a project and bring strategists and writers with you.
• You have a clear point of view, and you relish challenging clients.

Responsibilities

• Own the creative outcome across brand creation and rebrands from strategy through execution.
• Set direction from earliest strategic thinking to final delivery, upholding high creative ambition.
• Lead a cross-disciplinary team of strategists, writers, designers, and client partners to create integrated work.
• Push the work until it’s genuinely great and inspire the team to be braver.

Skills

Creative leadership

Brand identity design

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

This branding studio is not just strategic; it’s global too. Working on a real mix of visual and verbal identity, UX/UI design all the way through to film, photography, and environment branding, this is the sort of place that will keep you on your toes in the best way possible.

They’re industry leaders here, and now they’re on the hunt for a Design Director who has the conviction to challenge the status quo and who believes in the power that a great brand with even greater design can have.

The Role

You’ll own the creative outcome across brand creation and rebrands, setting direction from the earliest strategic thinking through to final execution, and holding the standard for creative ambition across the studio.

This is hands‑on creative leadership, not oversight, so you’ll bring together strategists, writers, designers, creative technologists and client partners to make integrated work across both digital and physical applications. The remit is design‑led and conceptually driven: identity systems that commit fully to a single idea and are built to scale. Part of your job is to push the work until it’s genuinely great, and to make the people around you braver whilst you do it.

The Package

£65,000 – £70,000

Hybrid working: three days a week in the studio

Certified B Corp

Personal training budgets and career coaching

Three‑month sabbatical after four years

Private medical insurance & mental health support

Enhanced pension, maternity, paternity packages

The Person

You’re a Senior Designer or Design Director from a craft‑driven branding studio, most likely a London independent or challenger. Your portfolio is distinctive, concept‑first identity work built to scale: brand creation and rebrands rather than campaigns.

You lead across the full arc of a project and bring strategists and writers with you. You have a clear point of view, and you relish challenging clients.