Design Lead - Brand Studio with AI-Driven Creativity

Oliver Agency; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

OLIVER, part of the Brandtech Group, seeks a Design Lead for a 12‑month FTC in London. You will lead the studio, set creative standards, and guide designers, artworkers and copywriters on site and offshore. This hands‑on leadership role requires shaping strategy and delivering high‑impact work with multiple stakeholders.

You will partner with leadership to plan workload, grow the studio, and maintain design excellence across brand campaigns, packaging and digital outputs.

Formación

• Creative leadership of work across multiple disciplines and channels in a creative, design or integrated agency environment.
• A track record of leading creative development from concept through to execution.
• Experience working directly with senior client stakeholders and presenting creative recommendations.
• Ability to influence stakeholders, challenge constructively and build trusted relationships.
• Strong coaching, mentoring and people leadership skills.
• Strong planning, prioritisation and organisational skills, with an understanding of creative workflow, briefing processes and resource planning.
• Ability to balance creative excellence with operational and delivery requirements.
• Experience collaborating with offshore global teams and external production studios.
• Commercial awareness, with experience contributing to scoping, pitch or growth discussions.
• Close attention to detail and a commitment to quality.

Responsabilidades

• Lead creative direction and strategic thinking across Brand, Innovation and BAU projects, including campaigns, packaging and integrated marketing.
• Set and uphold creative standards, ensuring consistency, quality and brand alignment across all outputs.
• Act as the final creative review point for design and artwork, working in close collaboration with the Copy Lead.
• Stay hands‑on in concept creation and creative problem solving for strategic, complex or high‑profile initiatives, and provide design support during peak periods or on priority projects.
• Create and refine visual solutions across digital and print channels where required.
• Act as the senior day‑to‑day creative contact for client stakeholders, building trusted relationships and identifying opportunities to add creative value.
• Present creative work clearly and persuasively to stakeholders at all levels, lead twice‑yearly Creative Review sessions and contribute to wider account presentations.
• Guide teams through feedback cycles, balancing stakeholder requirements with creative integrity.
• Line manage direct reports, including objective setting, performance reviews, development planning and regular coaching.
• Provide functional leadership across the wider team of designers, artworkers and copywriters, onsite and offshore, through coaching, constructive feedback and hands‑on support.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture by supporting onboarding, mentoring, training and knowledge sharing across the studio.
• Partner with Account Leadership, Operations and Project Management to support workflow and resource planning. Contribute creative insight to project scoping, pitch responses and growth opportunities.
• Keep up with design trends, emerging tools and AI‑enabled capabilities, and use them to improve team performance, processes and output.

Conocimientos

Creative leadership

Lead multi‑disciplinary teams

Present to senior stakeholders

People leadership

Planning and prioritisation

Stakeholder management

Creative problem solving

Brand development

Herramientas

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Microsoft Office

Pencil AI

Nice to have: After Effects

Monday.com

Descripción del empleo

OLIVER, part of the Brandtech Group, seeks a Design Lead for a 12‑month FTC in London. You will lead the studio, set creative standards, and guide designers, artworkers and copywriters on site and offshore. This hands‑on leadership role requires shaping strategy and delivering high‑impact work with multiple stakeholders.

You will partner with leadership to plan workload, grow the studio, and maintain design excellence across brand campaigns, packaging and digital outputs.