Role

I am currently recruiting a Design Director for a leading design agency to work alongside the Design & Experience team to lead and manage design projects for influential and high-profile brands. You will work closely with the Creative Director to be makers and storytellers that bring transformative ideas and experiences to life!

Responsibilities

• Be a bold, proactive Experience Design leader, able to motivate and inspire teams and stakeholders.
• Use creativity, customer empathy and business thinking to challenge, reframe and redefine a problem.
• Focus relentlessly on people and craft, and leading by doing.
• Be an effective and passionate manager and mentor to a talented team of designers.
• Build positive and productive relationships with client services and delivery to ensure strong client strategies and engagements.
• Provide strategic support and design thinking to solve the right client problems and grow their business.
• Plan, lead and oversee the experience design activities, strategies and outputs used to create and deliver the transformative and meaningful customer experiences for our clients.

Requirements

• In depth knowledge of CX Design / UX / IA / User-Centred.
• Excellent knowledge and passion for all aspects of experience design.
• Experience transforming brands into digital experiences.
• Highly experienced in preparing deliverables, brainstorming sessions, workshops and presentations for client engagements without senior guidance.
• You must be skilled in, Adobe Creative programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Sketch and/or Adobe XD, Prototyping (InVision / Craft / Marvel / Principle), Best practice user experience and accessibility standards.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to work in a highly collaborative environments (remotely and in-person).