Design Lead

Skills

About the Role

You will evolve visual identity and design systems across marketing channels, shape concepts with stakeholders, and provide art direction and line management. You will maintain studio quality standards, guide brand development, represent creative decisions to senior stakeholders, and introduce relevant design practices.

Requirements

• 7+ years of graphic design experience focused on digital marketing and creative leadership.
• Portfolio demonstrating creative excellence and brand or design-system development.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Typography expertise and attention to design detail.
• Multi-market design experience.
• Experience managing and developing a small creative team, including workload planning and resourcing.
• Experience setting creative direction and defending decisions with senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing external creative agency relationships.

Responsibilities

• Evolve visual identity and design systems across digital marketing, CRM, social, and performance channels.
• Shape campaign concepts with marketing and content stakeholders.
• Provide art direction, feedback, line management, career development, workload planning, and resourcing for Brand Designers.
• Present and defend creative concepts to senior stakeholders.
• Define studio quality standards, briefing templates, and ways of working.
• Partner on the evolution of brand identity.
• Bring design trends and financial-services creative best practice into the studio.

Benefits

• Hybrid work with three days in the office.
• Flexible Benefits Package worth 12% of salary.
• Private medical cover.
• Life insurance.
• Gym membership contribution.
• 25 days of holiday, plus a birthday day and two volunteering days.
• Option to buy or sell holiday days.
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Global and local onboarding.
• Enhanced parental pay and leave.
• Employee networks with annual event and project budgets.