Design Director - Graphics
Ready to shape unforgettable brand experiences? We'd love you to join our creative team, working with exciting clients, turning big ideas into compelling design.
20.20 is an agency for people who want to set the bar in brand experience. We're looking for a talented Design Director (Graphics) to join our team.
You'll be someone our clients connect with and feel inspired by, with the creative freedom to set the vision, guide teams, and actively participate in bringing projects to life.
Responsibilities:
• Understanding client briefs and setting out an approach and team plan to help prepare commercial proposals.
• Interpreting clients’ business objectives and 20.20’s design strategy to create compelling and effective design solutions.
• Storyboarding and preparing client presentations – effectively communicating the brief, strategy, design story and narrative, across all creative disciplines.
• Inspiring clients and explaining how our design solutions will effectively enhance their business.
• Organising and managing more than one project in the same timeframe.
• Directing, inspiring and managing the project teams, both full-time & freelance.
• Reporting back to the business on progress, issues and future requirements.
• Liaising and managing other collaborating agencies, suppliers and contractors.
Qualities:
• Lacks ego - willing to do what it takes to deliver great work, allowing other team members to shine.
• An inspirational storyteller, great with clients, with strong consultancy skills.
• Good at mentoring and nurturing other team members.
• Great at managing personal workload and the team’s workload to ensure projects are well organised – avoiding late nights and stressful deadlines.
• Understands other disciplines and integrates their input effectively into the project.
• Excellent knowledge of design related products and services, with the ability to manage complex client and supplier relationships.
• Has the required skills and expertise in relevant software to deliver to standards required and expected.
• Good time management and administration skills.
Project ownership:
• 70% design
• 30% team management and admin
Salary Expectations:
£55,000 to £65,000 based on experience
Our team are truly open and collaborative, and we are looking for an individual who will fit right in. If this sounds like your kind of place, we’d love to chat.
- Department
- Graphics
- Role
- Design Director
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Perks & Benefits
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Pension & Holiday
Alongside our pension scheme - staff begin with between 20 to 24 days of annual leave depending on level of experience. After three years, we add one additional day for every year of service, up to a total of 30 days.
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Cycle to work scheme
Save between 26 - 46% off the cost of a new bike to work.
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Big Breakfast
Our design team share what they've been working on with the whole company - over a delicious breakfast.
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Workspace perks
We offer free tea and coffee as well as an on site café and occasional treats. There’s bike storage, showers, social drinks, as well as Summer and Christmas parties.
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Hybrid working
We typically work in our Islington studio between two and three days a week. Being together in studio is an important part of being creative and building community. If you do want to come into the studio more often, you’ll always have a desk here.
Our culture.
We are a boutique agency with a team that seeks to inspire each other. We don’t separate strategy from creative or creative from accounts. We respect all brains, actively listening and helping each other express our ideas.
We are strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers. We don’t like big egos because what we deliver reflects the best efforts of everyone involved.
We don’t take ourselves too seriously. We try to ensure we have fun in the process of delivering creative solutions that make a real difference to people’s lives.
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