Lead Designer

Digital Waffle; Leicester, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle is seeking a Creative Lead to run design output for a major enterprise technology account. This senior role requires ownership of creative direction, leading a team of designers and acting as the client’s trusted creative partner.

Focus on motion-enabled PowerPoint, scalable design systems, and high-quality templates across a high-volume workflow. You’ll lead and mentor designers, shape briefs, and ensure brand standards while staying current with PowerPoint, Adobe, and AI

Qualifications

• Senior-level presentation design experience in B2B communications.
• Evidence of dynamic, motion-enabled PowerPoint work with animations.
• Range across formats: in-person keynotes, pitch decks, templates and reusable systems.

Responsibilities

• Set creative direction across the account’s day-to-day work and lead design on key projects.
• Act as a trusted creative advisor to senior client stakeholders, leading presentations and workshops.
• Reframe briefs to produce stronger outcomes and challenge thinking constructively.
• Build scalable asset repositories, template libraries, and design systems for high-volume output.
• Own creative decisions across live work, keeping speed without compromising quality.

Skills

Presentation design

B2B communications

PowerPoint motion

Client facing

Brand consistency

Adobe Creative Suite

Leadership

Tools

PowerPoint

Adobe Creative Suite

AI tooling

Job description

A specialist B2B communications and presentation design agency is hiring a Creative Lead to run their design output on a major enterprise technology client account.

This is a senior creative role with real ownership. You’ll set creative direction across a high-volume account, lead a team of designers, act as a trusted creative partner to the client and build the systems, templates and workflows that keep quality high at pace. Strong B2B communications pedigree is essential, as is genuine command of dynamic, motion-led PowerPoint. Portfolios heavy on marketing campaign work with static, template-feeling slides won’t land here.

Role: Creative Lead (Enterprise Technology Account)

Location: Remote (UK based), with infrequent travel to Leicester and London for team and client meetings

What you’ll be doing:

• Set creative direction across the account’s day-to-day work and lead design on key projects
• Act as a trusted creative advisor to senior client stakeholders, leading presentations, workshops and difficult creative conversations
• Reframe and influence briefs to produce stronger outcomes, challenging thinking constructively
• Build and own scalable asset repositories, template libraries, design systems and workflows for a high-volume, fast-turnaround account
• Take ownership of creative decisions across live work, keeping review and sign-off light so output moves quickly without dropping quality or client brand standards
• Bridge the content and PM team with design, turning rough or incomplete asks into clear direction designers can act on
• Act as the team’s go-to creative problem solver through the working day, resolving live issues and holding the line on quality before work reaches the client
• Provide hands-on day-to-day support to mid-tier and junior designers, building their confidence and craft
• Grow into line manager for the design team, taking on performance, development and wellbeing responsibility over time
• Act as brand guardian across all account output, holding every deliverable to the client’s brand guidelines
• Stay current on PowerPoint, Adobe product and AI tooling, bringing techniques in that make the team faster or better

What you’ll need:

• Senior-level presentation design experience, specifically within B2B communications
• Portfolio with real evidence of dynamic, complex PowerPoint work: motion within slides, custom build and animation, not static templated layouts
• Range across screen sizes and use cases: in-person keynotes, standard pitch decks, templates and reusable systems
• Broader motion craft outside of PowerPoint, including video work
• Proven creative leadership experience: setting direction, running critique and raising standards across a team
• Confident client-facing presence, able to influence senior stakeholders and manage escalations
• Strong eye for layout, typography and brand consistency across high-volume output
• Comfortable owning the creative frameworks that let a team move fast without sacrificing quality
• Fluent across the Adobe Creative Suite and modern design workflows

Nice to have:

• Prior work on an enterprise technology, SaaS or similar B2B tech client account
• Experience building design systems or template libraries that scale across a team
• Exposure to AI tooling for design, motion or presentation workflows

This role would suit a senior B2B designer with real presentation and motion craft who wants ownership of a major account, a team to lead and the mandate to shape how the whole thing operates.