Senior Designer / Design Lead (Part Time, 2.5 days)

Role: Senior Designer / Design Lead  

Location: London, United Kingdom

About the role: 

We’re looking for a Senior Designer / Design Lead to elevate the creative output of an embedded/in-house style studio, delivering high-quality design across always-on brand activity, integrated campaigns, and content production. You’ll lead by example—setting craft standards, partnering closely with creative and client stakeholders, and guiding a small team of designers to produce smart, effective, brand-right work at pace. 

This role suits someone who is equally strong in conceptual thinking and hands-on execution, thrives in fast-moving environments, and can balance creative ambition with operational reality. 

What you will be doing: 

• Lead the design craft across projects—ensuring work is on-brand, conceptually strong, and beautifully executed.
• Own and elevate design quality through clear art direction, strong layouts, typography, composition, and attention to detail.
• Set the visual benchmark for the team; establish and maintain design standards, templates, and best practices.
• Translate brand guidelines into compelling, channel-appropriate executions while knowing when/how to push them.
• Contribute to and lead ideation sessions, developing visual territories, campaign systems, and content design approaches.
• Support Creative Directors/Copywriters in bringing ideas to life with strong visual storytelling and clear rationale.
• Produce moodboards, visual references, storyboards, and early-stage concept explorations.
• Provide day-to-day guidance, feedback, and coaching to midweight/junior designers.
• Manage design allocation across projects in partnership with Account team.
• Run constructive critiques and reviews; ensure feedback is clear, actionable, and improves outcomes.
• Help identify training needs and support growth plans across the design team.
• Partner with client brand/marketing teams and internal stakeholders to interpret briefs, present work, and manage feedback cycles.
• Confidently present design decisions, linking creative choices to brand and business objectives.
• Build trusted relationships and help shape briefs upstream when needed.
• Deliver high-quality work across digital, social, web, print, retail/OOH, and integrated campaigns.
• Ensure files are production-ready with strong versioning, accuracy, and compliance with brand/legal requirements.
• Work efficiently across fast-turn, high-volume environments without sacrificing craft.
• Maintain awareness of emerging tools, formats, and platform best practices (e.g., social specs, accessibility, motion considerations).

What you need to be great in this role: 

• Significant experience as a Senior Designer with demonstrable leadership on campaigns and content systems.
• Strong portfolio showing brand thinking, typography, layout, and high craft across multiple channels.
• Experience working in a fast-paced agency, in-house, or embedded studio environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Confident in leading design from concept through to final delivery and rollout.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).
• Excellent communication—able to give/receive feedback and present work clearly.
• Motion capability (After Effects/Premiere, or strong motion direction).
• Experience contributing to or building brand toolkits, templates, and modular design systems.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled workflows (used thoughtfully and responsibly).

Req ID: 17781

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