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Senior Design Director

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
The Senior Design Director will lead creative projects for various brands, mentor the design team, oversee campaign development, and ensure quality control. This role involves innovative thinking, deep knowledge of social media, and client relationship management, driving forward strategic brand initiatives across multiple channels.
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Description

We are looking for an ambitious Senior Design Director to join our London Design & Production team.

You’ll be tasked with owning and leading the creative output on our priority accounts, developing their brand, producing campaigns, overseeing the content creation and developing our team. You will also sit over a number of our beauty, lifestyle, service, sport and tech brands and work with the teams to deliver best in class work. We are a tight knit team of illustrators & animators, photographers & videographers, coders & brand builders who create thumb-smashing content for some of the biggest brands in the world.

You will work closely with a whole host of departmental specialists, from Insights, to Community, to Strategy to deliver transformational social-first work for our clients.

Our Conversational Creative relies on innovation, through a deep knowledge of the latest platform features and production techniques, combined with an acute understanding of what people are talking about and why it's important to them and their communities.

Creatives at 1000heads are involved from the start of a brief right through to output. You will go further, helping us guide the client on the future of the brand identity, drive forward creative ideations, oversee project development and lead creation of content across a variety of channels and mediums. Ownership and passion are key at 1000heads, so we’re looking for a candidate with an insatiable drive to create award winning, innovative work. You will need to be hands on when driving forward concepts and brand campaigns.

Responsibilities

  • Create, convey, and sell vision: Inspire and mentor the team to develop impactful creative ideas and executions that deliver new levels of craft and innovation.
  • Cultivate an engaging atmosphere leading to the development and execution of remarkable creative.
  • Be a strong confident ambassador of 1000heads when presenting work to clients in order to drive though ideas and build strong client relationships.
  • Conceptualise, scope in and implement complex integrated campaigns.
  • Creative ideation and design thinking, on your own or as a team.
  • Deliver campaign and brand development, overseeing project workflow.
  • Lead the agency in industry knowledge and design trends.
  • Function seniority, working with the senior team to own billable utilization, people management and function strategy.
Requirements
  • Experienced creative with graphic design education and 10+ year’s experience from an agency background
  • Strong social knowledge
  • Experienced in leading teams and overseeing multiple, diverse projects simultaneously
  • Concept through to final delivery experience on multi-channel/integrated campaigns that deliver strategic shifts for brands
  • Attention to detail - lead on quality control
  • Management experience
  • Passion
  • Design thinking
  • Excellent communicator – experienced in building client relationships
  • You'll slot into our creative family with your own brand of vim, spark and joy

About 1000heads

1000heads is a Social Transformation company.

We combine expertise in data & analytics, strategy, technology and creativity to help the world’s best businesses build Social Age brands.

1000heads delivers social-first insight, consultancy, and creative services to clients around the world including The North Face, Google, Diageo, Wella, Snap, Meta, Amazon and the United Nations.

We have offices around the world in London, Berlin, Paris, New York, LA, Miami, Sydney and Melbourne and Kuala Lumpar.

1000heads is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we are passionately committed to working together to promote an inclusive environment which celebrates and promotes diversity. We are committed to our belief that diversity in our team generates better and bolder ideas, creativity, understanding and respect. We welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

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This job description is not intended to cover everything that will be expected of you but rather to act as a guide and you maybe required to get involved in other and reasonable ad hoc projects.



Benefits
  • Additional holiday day for each year of service, up to 25 days
  • Additional festive shutdown period between Christmas and New Years period
  • Subsidised gym membership
  • Private Medical Cover
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Personal development fund
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Regular company socials/away days, free Thursday breakfasts and drinks
  • Flexible working, hybrid 2-3 days per week
  • Plus other cool perks

Top Skills

Graphic Design

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