Digital Design Lead

Space NK Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Space NK Limited is seeking a Digital Design Lead at Head Office to deliver standout digital design across web, email, app and paid media. You will lead a small, skilled team, shape the digital design strategy, and collaborate with Web, App, Product and Marketing to drive engagement and commercial results.

You will bring a premium-brand background, strong UI/UX expertise, and experience in performance-focused creative.

Qualifications

• Proven background in designing high quality digital work for premium brands.
• Experience delivering brand-focused moving assets for paid media.
• Strong UI/UX knowledge and experience with ecommerce interfaces.
• Leads and develops a creative team in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver best-in-class digital design output across .com, email and app.
• Own and drive the digital design strategy as part of the master brand identity.
• Lead, inspire and upskill a small digital design team to support growth and scale.
• Align creative output to business objectives and campaign goals.
• Provide digital design solutions responding to short-term and long-term needs.
• Support paid media designers to deliver brand and performance-led creatives.

Skills

Digital design

Brand identity

UI/UX

Team leadership

Performance marketing

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

UX prototyping

Job description

If you love beauty, you’re in the right place.

As the ultimate curator of over 100 of the most in-demand, highly innovative and boundary-pushing beauty brands, we are the go-to destination for worldwide beauty discovery.

Together through our neighbourhood stores, online presence and loyalty scheme, Space NK has built a flourishing community in which to discover beauty. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, and we will always endeavour to offer everything they need to help them explore, experiment, and enjoy our brands.

Digital Design Lead - Head Office

Role Overview

The Digital Design Lead is responsible for delivering best-in-class design and innovation across our digital channels. Driving visible change, engagement and performance, this role will shape the way customers experience our brand across web, email, app and paid media. Bringing a wealth of experience, energy and smart creativity, you’ll lead and upskill a small but busy team of digital design specialists as our business continues to scale. Reporting to our Head Of Creative & Branding and working alongside the Brand Design and Art Direction Leads, you’ll work closely with our digital marketing, CRM and tech teams to help drive out key business and commercial goals. This is a hands‑on design role that requires a passion for driving creative change and a strategic, commercially savvy mindset.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Delivering best-in-class digital design output across .com, email and app.
• Owning & driving the digital design strategy as part of our wider master brand identity.
• Leading, inspiring and upskilling a small digital design team to support growth and scale.
• Aligning creative output to business objectives and campaign goals.
• Proactively providing digital design solutions that respond to both short-term and long-term commercial needs.
• Supporting and empowering our paid media designers to deliver brand and performance led creatives that align to platform specific requirements.
• Partnering with Web, App, Product, and Marketing teams to enhance UX/UI and branded digital experiences
• Managing agency partners and freelance designers
• Elevating our everyday digital marketing communications to stand out in our customer’s inbox.
• Overseeing workflow, prioritization and end-to-end delivery of digital assets ensuring quality and consistency.
• Ensuring the digital design team are using the latest and most innovative creative tools.

Required Skills and Experience

• A proven background in designing high quality digital work with premium brands, preferably within the beauty and fashion sector.
• A solid background in designing for ecommerce in a busy commercial environment.
• Experienced in delivering brand focused moving content assets for paid media platforms.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and modern design/prototyping tools; strong working knowledge of UI/UX best practices
• Strong grasp of performance marketing and data-informed creative—understands how creative impacts engagement, conversion, and brand perception
• Proven experience leading and developing creative teams, including designers at varying levels of skill and seniority
• A creative but strategic approach to your work, you’ll demonstrate the ability to design for performance and brand
• A confident leader. The ability to lead, support and inspire a small team of designers and specialists in a fast-paced environment

You must be able to demonstrate the right to work in the UK in order to apply for this position.

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

Space NK are an equal opportunities employer.