Design Director

Posted:
11/8/2024, 6:46:17 AM

Location(s):
London, England, United Kingdom ⋅ England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
UI/UX & Design

About Interbrand

Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world’s most iconic brands.

To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism.

Interbrand is its people. We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.

In collaboration with many of the world’s leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people’s expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.

The Interbrand Best Global Brands study/rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning environment in the marketing world.

Our Behaviours

Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen. We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us.  

We are looking for a Senior Designer, to join the London team. We want passionate about design, making stuff real and pushing the boundaries of ideas kind of person.
Someone who understands and is interested in what motivates people in the real world and can apply creativity and thinking to deliver work that makes a difference to their experience.
We want someone who loves to work in a team but is able to self-start. Someone who loves what they do and wants to grow to the next level.

The experience and requirements below outline the responsibilities of the individual:

Thinking and making:

  • Has experience in working on a variety of categories, and scales of client
  • Can take an idea from concept to real world moves through big idea thinking regardless
    of media
  • Has a high level of creativity and craft in their work
  • Can articulate and bring to life a big idea in a succinct and persuasive way
  • Has the ability to evaluate and identify new thinking for a category and a brand
  • Has the ability to frame the central challenge on briefs (diagnosis)
  • Can build on the teams’ ideas and help them develop them
  • Brings a provocative and constructive edge to the work
  • Will challenge and build the teams approach to making and creating to help continually evolve

Relationships:

  • Experience in collaborating with a diverse skill set
  • Can build and nurture trust in a team and with a client
  • Is interested in mentoring and growing others as well as themselves
  • Has experience in external contributions such as talks, workshops or judging of awards
  • Can understand and navigate the roles of the team working with strategy, CX, CS etc

 

Commerciality:

  • Has experience in working to timescales and budgets and the ability to take responsibility for this
  • Can help scope and plan creative stages of work in partnership with Client service
  • Has a passion for identifying, exploring, and winning new work.
  • Can actively drive award entries and help establish plans for submissions and marketing material

 

Leadership:

  • Will help attract future talent by partnering with bodies and academic institutions to grow a pool of new blood
  • Is an advocate for DEI culture, promoting and establishing strong ethics in the team
  • Can coach and drive team to develop work and themselves
  • Is willing to represent Interbrand at discipline specific events.
  • Can demonstrate they can add to a culture – initiatives and actions

 

We are building a connected, collaborative and inclusive human culture. As part of that culture, Interbrand is committed to creating spaces for open communication, transparency, and equitable support for all levels of employees. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are driving forces in how we create and embrace community while allowing our employees to refine their craft and solve problems for the world’s best global brands. Interbrand has both local and global DEI Task Forces, in addition to access to the Omnicom People Engagement Network (OPEN), OPEN Pride, Omniwomen, and are proud supporters of ADCOLOR.

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