2D DESIGN DIRECTOR

Brand, Campaigns & Spatial

Salary: Up to £85,000, dependent on experience

Location: London

Working Pattern: Hybrid (3 days in the studio, 2 days from home)

Sector: Brand Campaigns, Spatial Design, Experiential, Creative Communications

About the Studio

This London-based creative studio partners with some remarkable brands, delivering work that spans campaigns, product launches, brand experiences, and spatial environments.

The quality of the work is already well established. The business has earned its reputation through thoughtful ideas, strong execution, and a multidisciplinary approach that allows projects to move seamlessly between brand, content, and physical space. Rather than standing still, the leadership team has made a conscious decision to invest further in the creative offering and build on what's already working.

The result is a studio with genuine momentum, strong commercial foundations, and an appetite to push the work further.

About the Role

This is not a turnaround role.

The foundations are already in place. The opportunity is to elevate them.

As Design Director, you'll bring greater cohesion to how ideas are developed and expressed across campaigns, environments, content, and experiences. You'll help strengthen the brand thinking that underpins the work, ensuring projects feel connected, distinctive, and strategically considered from start to finish.

You'll lead a multidisciplinary team, shape concepts at campaign level, and maintain creative standards across multiple projects simultaneously. Working closely with senior leadership, you'll influence both the work itself and how the studio continues to evolve creatively.

The early focus is on understanding the culture, building relationships, and bringing clarity to existing processes. Over time, you'll become a key voice in defining what the next chapter looks like.

Your days will look something like this...

• Lead creative thinking across brand, campaign, spatial, and experiential projects
• Develop and refine concepts that translate consistently across multiple channels and touchpoints
• Hold the creative thread across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring clarity and cohesion throughout
• Mentor, develop, and inspire a multidisciplinary team of designers and creatives
• Deliver constructive creative direction, feedback, and critique that improves both the work and the people producing it
• Collaborate with project teams to scope briefs, manage timelines, and balance creative ambition with commercial realities
• Present work directly to clients, building trusted relationships and navigating feedback with confidence
• Contribute to the long-term evolution of the studio's creative output, standards, and ways of working

You might be our perfect match if...

• You have significant experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams across brand, campaign, experiential, or spatial projects
• Your portfolio demonstrates strong strategic thinking as well as outstanding creative execution
• You understand how brand ideas translate across physical, digital, and experiential channels
• You have experience managing creative teams, mentoring designers, and raising standards through leadership
• You are confident presenting to clients and managing senior stakeholder relationships
• You can balance creative ambition with commercial realities, budgets, timelines, and delivery requirements
• You enjoy connecting ideas across disciplines rather than operating within a single specialism
• You're motivated by making good work even better rather than fixing broken environments

Why this one...

• A senior creative leadership role with genuine influence over the future direction of the studio
• An opportunity to build upon strong existing foundations rather than starting from scratch
• Diverse work spanning campaigns, product launches, experiences, environments, and brand communications
• A collaborative culture that values creative thinking and gives leaders the autonomy to make an impact
• Strong commercial backing and a clear commitment to investing in the creative function
• Hybrid working with a balance of collaborative studio time and focused independent working