Design Director, Brand Brand London Hybrid Remote

YourStudio

YourStudio is a dynamic strategy and experience design agency specialising in creating next-generation experiences and environments for global brands and retailers. With studios in London, Melbourne, New York and LA, we work supportively as one global team to deliver award-winning experiences that are recognised globally. We create brand strategy and immersive environments, leveraging the senses through communication, digital and experience design. Our mission is to inspire human connection, with sustainable thinking embedded.

The Role

As a Brand Design Director you'll play a pivotal role in building reputation and relationships, responsible for leading multidisciplinary project teams, designing and delivering creative solutions to client challenges that exceed expectations.

You'll have a sharp understanding of what's happening in the global landscape and be adept at bringing a brand to life as a fully immersive experience. You'll have delivered branded environments or experiences, and understand the nuances of how a brand manifests at retail. Supporting our purpose to inspire human connection, these brand narratives will be interwoven with multi-sensory physical, digital and human aspects.

Responsibilities

• Providing exceptional design direction across multiple concurrent projects, you will take full ownership of projects, from design brief to delivery, and be involved in all aspects of bringing complex projects and pitches to life.
• You will lead multi-disciplinary project teams exhibiting a 'mentoring' mentality. You'll galvanise, empower and inspire our dynamic project teams to reach their full potential.
• Take commercial ownership for projects; informing scoping appropriately, running projects to time and budget, and providing self-initiated reporting of relevant issues to the leadership team.
• Take a lead client-facing role, representing the studio values, ensuring clients receive exceptional service in every interaction. You'll demonstrate exceptional communication skills in every situation; at ease articulating complex narratives and responding on-the-fly to challenges.
• Supporting growth, including identifying new business or brief opportunities before they are presented. Articulating the business case of the creative response for any brief, discerning the most appropriate format for communicating the ideas, that adds value for the client.
• Playing a pivotal, proactive role in team creativity, culture, morale and wellbeing, instigating new initiatives and encouraging a collaborative approach with multidisciplinary teams beyond project briefs.
• You will strive to ensure the work we do with clients considers environmental and social impact all the way through projects.

You

• 7+ years demonstrable experience in designing for branded environments or experiences, or retail marketing.
• An exceptional portfolio of brand storytelling and expression of brand across complex multi-sensory, physical, digital and human touchpoints.
• Experience working with global brands. Experience working with apparel, footwear and technology brands is desirable.
• You have proven experience of building and developing senior level relationships.
• You have proven experience of leading teams, and fostering collaborative and growth-oriented cultures.

Additional information:

We are a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2024, offering a competitive salary, available upon request, plus our benefits package, which includes:

• We value studio culture and collaboration and for this reason we operate a hybrid model, with 60% of working time to be studio based (three days per week on a full-time basis).
• 25 days holidays, plus bank holidays, plus birthday off, wellness day and extra service allowance.
• 2 days allocated for personal community service per year.
• Private Health care (Vitality Health).
• 2 week travel & working abroad opportunity.
• We're members of Careers After Babies, offering family-friendly policies and enhanced parental leave.
• Social & Culture calendar, including Summer Party, Christmas party, and monthly social activities.

We would love to hear from you!

YourStudio is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome and encourage applications from all interested parties; we are committed to making our recruitment process as inclusive as possible for every person that applies.

We work actively to create diverse teams, made up of people from different perspectives and lived experiences and are consistently committed to promoting equality and diversity. Through this, we are developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring significant and positive contributions to our business and our clients.

You may read this job description and feel you do not match the requirements 100% but we encourage you to apply as we match individuals to the business. We are a creative business so if you feel you could express your experience in a different way then feel free to do so.

Accommodations are available, upon request, for all stages of the interview and employment process for those with a disability or medical need during any stage of the recruitment process.