Freelance Lead Email Designer

Creative Recruitment Limited; Greater London; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Recruitment is partnering with a leading luxury retail brand to hire a Freelance Senior Email Designer / Team Lead in London, mainly remote with occasional office visits. Start mid-October through to the end of the year, with the potential for extension.

You will lead a design team, mentor junior talent, craft high-performing email campaigns, and collaborate with CRM, content, strategy and creative teams while driving best practices in responsive design, mobile optimization and testing.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing emails using Figma and Photoshop.
• Previous experience leading or managing design teams.
• In-depth understanding of email design best practices and customer experience.
• Experience building responsive, modular email templates within email marketing platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Leading and mentoring a team of designers, supporting the development of junior talent.
• Creating high-performing email campaigns that align with brand and business objectives.
• Collaborating closely with CRM, content, strategy and creative teams.
• Driving best practice across responsive email design, mobile optimisation and email testing.

Skills

Figma

Photoshop

Team leadership

Email design best practices

Email templates

Stakeholder management

Tools

Emarsys

Job description

Freelance Senior Email Designer / Team Lead
Luxury Retail Brand - London based / Mainly remote occasional visits to office
October Start until End of Year
Day Rate: DOE
IR35 determination TBC

NOTE: ONLY UK BASED APPLICANTS WITH FULL RIGHTS TO WORK WILL BE CONSIDERED

We're partnering with a leading luxury retail brand to find an experienced Freelance Senior Email Designer / Team Lead to join the inhouse team from mid-October through to the end of the year, with the potential for extension.This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly creative and strategic email specialist who combines exceptional design skills with proven team leadership experience.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading and mentoring a team of designers, supporting the development of junior talent.
• Creating high-performing email campaigns that align with brand and business objectives.
• Collaborating closely with CRM, content, strategy and creative teams.
• Driving best practice across responsive email design, mobile optimisation and email testing.

What we're looking for:

• Strong experience designing emails using Figma and Photoshop.
• Previous experience leading or managing design teams.
• In-depth understanding of email design best practices and customer experience.
• Experience building responsive, modular email templates within email marketing platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Emarsys or a similar email platform using reusable content blocks.