Design Director

Craft Agency Ltd.; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Health Cashback Plan

Enhanced pension and life cover

Wellbeing budget and in-house coach

Mental health days

Career check-ins and mentoring

Volunteer day

Job summary

Craft Agency Ltd. is seeking a Design Director to lead the design team and drive projects from brief to launch. You will set the standard for creative quality, ensuring brand distinctiveness and craft precision across large consumer accounts.

You will mentor designers, collaborate with strategy and client teams, and own the thinking behind commercially significant briefs lined up with major global brands.

Qualifications

• Senior-level Design Director with a strong track record in brand or packaging agency work.
• World-class portfolio that demonstrates strategic thinking and craft across brands.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design team and own projects from brief to launch.
• Set the standard for creative quality and ensure brand distinctiveness and craft precision.
• Mentor designers and provide feedback to build capability and confidence.
• Collaborate with strategy, project and client teams to align thinking and execution.

Skills

Design leadership

Brand design

Packaging design

Mentoring

Client stakeholder management

Job description

An independent, founder-led brand and design studio – a certified B Corp, now running design work for very large global consumer brands – is at a genuine turning point. The three founders are continuing to build a layer of leadership beneath them- for the right person, there is real room to rise.

The studio is scaling into major accounts, including new work in the US, and needs creatives who can own the work rather than wait to be told what it should be.

The Role

Leading the design team, you’ll run projects day-to-day from brief to launch, not just executing someone else’s direction. You’ll set the standard for creative quality, interrogating work for brand distinctiveness and craft precision, and you’ll mentor designers and give feedback that builds their capability and confidence.

Partnering with strategy, project and client teams to keep thinking and execution aligned, and you’ll scope, phase and assign across delivery, presenting work to senior client stakeholders and selling the thinking behind it too – on commercially significant briefs, with clients who have assembled large parts of their business to see this studio.

The Package

• £60,000 – £65,000


• Hybrid working, based


• Health Cashback Plan


• Enhanced pension, maternity and paternity, and Life Assurance


• Annual personal wellbeing budget, access to an in-house coach, and mental health days


• Regular career check-ins, goal setting and mentoring


• Paid volunteering day

The Person

You’re a Design Director from a strong brand or packaging agency. Your portfolio looks world-class, but it’s your thinking that leads; you’re someone who can take the core of an idea and stretch it across a whole brand.

You’ve worked on large, complex consumer accounts with senior client-side stakeholders, and you can hold a room with real confidence.