Senior Art Director

Remitly; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Vacation Days

Health insurance

Commuter benefit

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Mental Health & Family FormingBenefits

Continuing education

Job summary

Remitly seeks a Senior Art Director based in London for its EMEA & APAC Creative team. You will own regional campaigns from concept to delivery, guide junior designers, and partner with global teams to elevate brand visuals across markets.

You will work in a hybrid setup (onsite 3 days/week) and report to the Creative Lead for EMEA & APAC, ensuring high-quality, culturally aware creative outputs that move Remitly's brand forward.

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years of experience in visual design and digital execution across channels.
• Proven ability to lead regional campaigns with measurable in-market results.
• Ability to turn strategy and customer insight into compelling creative directions.

Responsibilities

• Lead creative development for regional campaigns across brand and performance channels.
• Turn briefs into insight-led concepts focusing on customer needs.
• Own design projects end-to-end: method, timeline, and creative approach.
• Review agency work to ensure on-brand quality and accuracy.
• Audit existing creative using data and market context to improve results.
• Design with a global mindset, considering localisation from the start.
• Communicate timelines, risks, blockers and dependencies to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with global teams to integrate regional needs into broader strategy.
• Coach junior designers and share knowledge across locations.

Skills

Campaign leadership

Strategy to creative

Mentoring

Cross-cultural thinking

Stakeholder alignment

Self-management

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Motion design

Job description

Job Description:

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we’re not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward.

We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role:

Remitly's mission is to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial services on the planet. Our EMEA & APAC Creative team makes work that connects with local cultures and drives business results across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, covering brand campaigns, digital performance, motion, broadcast and out-of-home.

As a Senior Art Director you’ll be a senior specialist and project leader. You’ll own regional creative from concept through delivery and optimisation. You’ll work independently, hold the team to a higher quality bar, coach junior designers, and partner with global teams and external agencies to move Remitly's brand forward. You’ll be accountable for measurable creative outcomes. This role is based in our London office (hybrid, 3 days onsite per week) and reports to the Creative Lead for EMEA & APAC.

You Will:

• Lead creative development for regional campaigns across brand and performance channels, making sure the work meets or exceeds the global quality bar.
• Turn briefs into well-reasoned, insight-led concepts that bring clarity to ambiguous problems and put the customer first.
• Own design projects end to end. You’ll choose the methods, timelines and creative approaches that best achieve business objectives.
• Review agency and partner work and push it higher, keeping it on-brand, accurate and excellent.
• Audit existing creative using data, insight and market context to find ways to improve or optimise it.
• Design with a global mindset, keeping non-English languages and localisation in mind from the start.
• Communicate timelines, risks, blockers and dependencies before anyone has to ask, so stakeholders always know where things stand.
• Work with global creative, marketing, brand and performance teams to bring regional needs into broader creative strategies, and speak for those needs in cross-functional forums.
• Guide and coach junior designers, and help teams in different locations share what they know.
• Find and put in place improvements to processes, templates and delivery that raise quality, efficiency and consistency across the team.

You Have:

• 6-8+ years of experience in visual design, digital design and execution across multiple channels.
• Strong command of Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• A proven track record of leading creative for campaigns or regions, with in-market results to show for it.
• The ability to turn strategy and customer insight into compelling creative, with distinct conceptual directions rather than just stylistic variations.
• Experience directing external agencies and raising the quality of their work.
• Experience mentoring or coaching junior creatives.
• Strong judgment and structured thinking when problems are ambiguous, plus the ability to build alignment and handle conflicting viewpoints constructively.
• A track record of reliability, ownership and self-management in a hybrid environment.
• Bonus: motion design skills, experience with AI creative tools for ideation and production, and experience presenting creative to senior stakeholders and partners.

Our Benefits:

• Paid Vacation Days
• Health insurance
• Commuter benefit
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• Continuing education

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster.

Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.