Design Director

MSL UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading creative agency as a Design Director, where you will lead a team of talented designers in crafting innovative and impactful design solutions. This role focuses on direct collaboration with the Executive Creative Director and requires strong leadership in design management as well as the ability to influence and inspire creativity within the agency culture. You will have the opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects, helping clients connect with their audiences effectively through exceptional design.

Benefits

Work Anywhere opportunity for up to 6 weeks a year.

Reflection Days for well-being.

24/7 helpline for personal and professional support.

26 weeks full pay for family milestones.

Flexible working and birthday day off.

Great local discounts.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in design principles and branding.
• Proven ability to manage teams and projects effectively.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-level design craft.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of designers, overseeing projects from concept to execution.
• Present creative ideas and solutions to stakeholders.
• Nurture a collaborative studio environment and guide design processes.

Skills

Design Leadership

Communication

Attention to Detail

Relationship Building

Education

Demonstrable experience as a Design Director

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Company Description

We’re a values-based business built around a philosophy of DO | FEEL | THINK. For our people, it encourages them to DO IT, to FEEL BELONGING and to THINK INDEPENDENTLY, creating a vibrant environment where our people can do the best work of their careers. We use DO | FEEL | THINK to inspire our clients too. We want clients to show their values to the world through the acts they create digitally and in real life, helping to generate greater emotional connection with their products and brands, and creating audience relationships built on true Belief. How do we do it? By connecting the modern key Belief drivers of PR, Sustainability, Employer Brand, and Digital Influence - all crucial to helping businesses win in our increasingly values-based world. It all adds up to a vision of creating a progressive and connected creative agency that helps clients find new ways to grow.

Company Description

We’re a values-based business built around a philosophy of DO | FEEL | THINK. For our people, it encourages them to DO IT, to FEEL BELONGING and to THINK INDEPENDENTLY, creating a vibrant environment where our people can do the best work of their careers. We use DO | FEEL | THINK to inspire our clients too. We want clients to show their values to the world through the acts they create digitally and in real life, helping to generate greater emotional connection with their products and brands, and creating audience relationships built on true Belief. How do we do it? By connecting the modern key Belief drivers of PR, Sustainability, Employer Brand, and Digital Influence - all crucial to helping businesses win in our increasingly values-based world. It all adds up to a vision of creating a progressive and connected creative agency that helps clients find new ways to grow.

Our Commitment

Diversity and inclusion is a core part of who we are at MSL. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture that encourages, celebrates and supports our wonderfully diverse employee group - whatever their age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity. Diversity and inclusion doesn’t just fuel our creativity and innovation, it brings us closer to our people and audiences. We will continue to strive to create a culture and environment where everyone feels empowered and more importantly comfortable enough to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

Overview

We are looking for a Design Director (/ Senior Designer looking to step up!) to lead our conceptual designers within the MSL Studio. The candidate has to feel confident in integrated creative solutions, able to oversee and offer guidance on designing everything with meticulous typography, conceptual layouts, to end-to-end brand development, 3D conceptualisation, integrated campaigns and motion.. This individual will head up a team, working closely with other CD’s and reporting in to the ECD.

Responsibilities

Collaboration.

Familiar with agency ways of working with a good understanding of agency processes. A strong communicator with the ability to present their work. Work closely with our Executive Creative Director and Creative Directors, you’ll ensure our studio output is crafted to the highest standard, and remain true to the creative idea.

Leader.

Proactively influence design-led thinking and processes across the agency to encourage and enable us to do our best work, including evangelising the value of design craft to the agency, and to our clients.

Nurturing a team and studio.

We take a long term investment in our people. Making sure that they develop and have opportunities to own their work and think independently whilst have a sense of belonging within a team of peers.

Being culturally connected and aware of the world around you.

Understanding trends, attending events and exhibitions to stay current and relevant to industry trends and techniques.

Building a culture of creativity.

The creative leadership team are responsible for ensure the entire agency plays an integral role in our creative work. We believe that great ideas can come from anywhere (not just the creative studio).

Actively contribute to MSL culture and values.

Live our values and take initiative to do.

Qualifications

Stellar design skiils.

Demonstrable experience in a Design Director role. Proven understanding of layout, design principles, typography and branding. Multidisciplinary design knowledge with ability to direct the design across omnichannel touchpoints.

Attention to detail.

A keen attention to detail with the ability to work on high level creative campaign and roll outs. A portfolio that demonstrates a high level of craft. Experienced in punchy media earning headlines but equally with big content population projects. Able to develop brand positioning, messaging, tone of voice, guidelines.

Talk the talk.

Excellent organisational and communication skills; the ability to manage designers and client team expectations across multiple projects; able to rationalise and articulate designs to internal and external stakeholders.

Relationship building.

Building relationships with key clients to both develop trust and to expand our relationship with the client.

Additional Information

MSL has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

• WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
• REFLECTION DAYS - Two additional days of paid leave to step away from your usual day-to-day work and create time to focus on your well-being and self-care.
• HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING, BANK HOLIDAY SWAP & BIRTHDAY DAY OFF You are entitled to an additional day off for your birthday.
• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.
  
  

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Advertising Services

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