Design Lead

WONGDOODY; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the human experience sector seeks a design lead to manage a team, inspire creativity, and engage with clients. The role demands a holistic approach to projects, ensuring high-quality design and collaboration. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in digital agencies and a strong portfolio showcasing innovative solutions. The position supports a hybrid working model, offering flexibility and a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Pension

Income Protection

Cycle to Work

Summer Hours

Employee Assistance Program

Regular Team Socials

Hybrid Working

Qualifications

• Experience in leading digital agencies with a strong portfolio.
• Mentoring team members and client interaction experience.

Responsibilities

• Shape design within WongDoody, leading a team and client interactions.
• Inspire creative thinking and craft within the team.

Skills

Creative Thinking

Problem-Solving

Mentoring

Client Interaction

Team Leadership

Education

5+ years experience in digital agencies

Job description

We are a Human Experience Company. Human experience is not just what we do, it’s who we are — a highly collaborative collection of global experts building experiences that can help transform businesses. And because we are powered by Infosys, we have the skills and scale to build anything we can imagine, and to deliver it anywhere in the world.

Brand Engagement: we create fully integrated campaigns that live on the largest media stages. Customer Experience: we design next-generation products, services and experiences that drive brand engagement and growth end to end. Commerce: we believe there is no store of the future, only the consumer of the future.

Your craft is the story of legends, and the rest of the studio are all working their socks off to create experiences as good as yours. Your work is water-tight, perfectly designed to make sure every single element shine. You’re used to looking beyond the task at hand and taking a holistic view of your projects, plugging into all the different stakeholders along the way. In fact, you’ve started to take on a lot more responsibility that goes beyond making things beautiful. Depending on the day, you might be managing a team of designers, holding invaluable conversations with clients or helping the producer figure out the numbers.

You’re endlessly upbeat, constantly inspiring and encouraging the team around you. After all, you’ve started to notice that when you’re positive, the team are too. You’ll be starting to have an active part in helping your colleagues grow, exploring their abilities and spotting their strengths and weaknesses. On top of that, you’ll be helping to shape the brief and make sure your team really, you know… get it. That might mean researching or endlessly scribbling on pen and paper, sketching or chatting away. Whatever it takes to really get to grips with the problem at hand.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will help us shape design within WongDoody. Your role will be to think, make, and lead. Responsible for looking after a team as well as playing a more prominent, client-facing role. You will take ownership for your own work and that of the team.

• An incredible eye, with the ability to push work from good to ‘oh my days’ great
• An optimistic, can-do, problem-solving mindset.
• A confident, creative spark combined with killer design instinct
• Inspires the team to push the boundaries of creative thinking and craft
• The ability to bring folks along with your way of thinking, both clients and colleagues.
• The ability to think both systematically and with a storytelling mindset, comfortably navigating both imagination and logic.
• An understanding of motion and other surrounding visual disciplines.
• Is an effective mentor with the ability to drive the quality of craft by developing team's capabilities.
• Inspires the team to push the boundaries of creative thinking and craft
• A holistic and relentlessly imaginative approach to every brief
• Utilizes new tools and trends to improve quality and efficiency
• Experience understanding research and data and using them to inform your thinking.
• Extends skills outside of their core discipline to become a more T shaped creative
• Responsible for looking after a team as well as playing a more prominent, client-facing role.
• An inspiring and persuasive presenting style
• Comfortable and experienced to lead workshops and structured brainstorms
• Can curate and rationalise solutions, ensuring clear alignment with business context, client vision, and project KPIs.
• Actively identifies and defines new opportunities to bring value to client engagements

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience working at leading digital agencies
• Portfolio of complex, digital experiences for global brands across mobile, tablet, and web channels, such as large CMS sites, e-commerce, apps, etc. Highlight your contribution to each project, and what makes the solution you devised innovative and smart.
• Experience mentoring members of teams and have worked in a multidisciplinary team.
• Have face-to-face client interaction experience

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

TO APPLY: For full consideration please upload a CV and links to your portfolio.

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 or gender identity. We are intentional about creating a space which not only celebrates and embraces, but also reflects the diversity of the world we live in. Candidates from diverse backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

HYBRID WORKING APPROACH

We spent a great deal of time speaking with our teammates and our leaders to define our future way of working. We used our values to guide our approach; putting relationships first, collaboration and having fun to find the right blend of flexibility and balance.

We’ll come together every Tuesday and Thurday to connect and collaborate.

We'll continue to evolve the approach once we get into the swing of it, but we're confident we're starting from a good place.

BENEFITS

• Private Medical Insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension
• Income protection
• Cycle to Work
• Summer Hours
• Employee Assistance Program
• Regular team socials
• Hybrid Working providing flexibility to work from our fabulous studio in Old Street and from home

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