Design Director

EdenMarsh; United States; Remote; USD 93,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

The Studio in London is seeking a Design Director to strengthen its team and elevate brand offerings across identity, packaging, and digital experiences. You will lead high-profile branding engagements, guide design direction, and mentor a talented team to deliver strategic, craft-driven work.

You will manage client relationships, develop design strategies, and contribute to new business pitches while ensuring consistency across brand systems and channels.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in branding across multiple channels, with identity creation and brand architecture.
• Proven ability to lead teams, mentor junior staff and present to clients.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with presentation skills and ability to pitch concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead branding projects from concept through execution for a broad client list.
• Oversee identity development, brand positioning, and visual systems.
• Contribute to new business pitches and nurture client relationships.
• Collaborate across internal teams to deliver cohesive brand experiences.

Skills

Branding strategy

Identity design

Leadership

Pitch experience

Communication skills

Mentoring

Job description

The Studio

Our client a central London brand and comms agency seeks a Design Director to bolster its team and strengthen their brand offering.

This is a small but well-established agency with a talented team. Their core offering surrounds re energizing brands, content and digital experiences and they are skilled in revitalizing engagement and loyalty for brands through brand design and strategic content.

The Role

We are searching for a creative who has all round experience of identity creation, development, implementation and guardianship as well as core expertise in both internal and external communications for a broad range of clients. You will play a core role in the ongoing development of one of this agencies key client relationships as well as having involvement in creating design solutions for their wider client list too.

What we are looking for:

• This role would suit an experienced and ambitious senior designer stepping up and into a DD role or an established DD with proven experience working for a broad range of brands.
• Involvement in a broad range of branding activity; brand positioning, identity and architecture, brand engagement, implementation and roll out.
• Demonstrated success across multiple channel outputs.
• Internal communications: employee engagement, campaign implementation, intranets, presentation materials.
• External communications, printed lit, marketing materials, sustainability communication, web design, apps, social media.
• Experience contributing to new business development and working with design teams on pitches.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Great communication skills and experience mentoring and nurturing junior and mid level team members.
• A passion for design in all forms with an eye for craft and beautiful art direction.
• An open and highly collaborative mind and approach!