Visual Brand & Design Lead

Posted 7 days 3 hours ago by YouGov

Permanent
Not Specified
Design Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description

Ready for your next big challenge? If you're a pro at strategic design, brand governance and team management, we've got the perfect opportunity for you! Join YouGov as our Visual Brand & Design Lead and make your mark at a global leader in research, data, and analytics.

As the Visual Brand & Design Lead, you will be responsible for evolving and maintaining YouGov's global visual identity, ensuring a strong and cohesive brand presence across all channels, assets and offices. You will play a key role in ensuring consistency and excellence in our brand execution, helping us to stand-apart from others in the Market Research industry.

Join our dynamic London-based team of 5, collaborating with a global marketing team of 65+ to shape YouGov's visual brand on a worldwide scale. As a key creative leader, you'll oversee our global Design Services team of 6, ensuring the production of high-quality, externally facing materials that align with our brand vision.

This is a hybrid role, so individuals must be able to commute to the London office at least 3 days a week.

What will I be doing day-to-day?

Brand governance:

  • Evolve and maintain YouGov's visual identity, ensuring brand consistency across all touchpoints
  • Act as a brand champion, providing guidance and oversight to teams across the business
  • Own and manage brand guidelines, ensuring they are accessible, up to date, and adhered to globally

Design execution & team leadership:

  • Lead and support the Design Services team, ensuring high-quality creative output that aligns a strategic creative approach with business goals
  • Establish and refine processes, templates, and workflows to drive efficiency and quality
  • Work closely with internal teams to manage and optimise creative automation tools (e.g., Frontify, Foleon)
These are the essentials you need to get an interview:
  • 5-10 years of experience working with visual brand and design
  • 2 years experience leading or managing a small design team in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong track record of delivering high-quality brand assets, templates, and marketing materials
  • Experience in brand governance and implementation, ensuring alignment across a global business
  • Ability to develop and implement processes to increase efficiencies and maintain high creative standards
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and PowerPoint
  • Experience with project management tools (e.g., )
Behavioural competencies:
  • Strong stakeholder management and ability to collaborate with teams across an organisation
It would be great if you had experience in the below, but we'll support you if you don't:
  • Familiarity with creative automation tools (e.g., Frontify, Foleon)
  • Experience with data design
  • Experience of working in a B2B environment
We offer some brilliant benefits and perks at YouGov, some of which include:
  • In the UK you'll get 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays throughout the year to take a well-earned rest, plus 1 extra day off for your birthday. In addition to this YouGov offers a designated day off that you can use to rest and recharge as we understand the importance of health and wellbeing
  • You will also have the option to work abroad for up to 30 days in a calendar year
  • We're big on learning, so all YouGovers have access to the vast number of courses to help develop your career
  • Auto-enrolled pension scheme
  • BUPA Private Medical Insurance
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Workplace Savings Plan
  • Eyecare Vouchers
  • Annual Season Ticket Loan
  • Corporate Gym Membership Discount