Design Director
Job Description
Summary
As one of Stereo's Design Director's, you'll be leading creative teams and projects into beautiful storytelling territories that engage audiences. You're conceptually driven and use design craft, art direction and innovation to deliver your ideas. Working closely with our talented creative teams your decision making and direction ability will be on-point and you’ll communicate Stereo’s overall creative vision to design teams and clients alike.
Typical Activities
Take ownership of your projects, lead your team and deliver high level design craft within timelines and budgets
Develop, review and manage your team
Ideate and develop creative solutions from brief to delivery
Lead and participate in internal meetings, client meetings and pitches
Work with some of the worlds biggest brands
Manage clients and new business with Account Directors and Creative Leadership Team
Develop Stereo’s creative and social culture
Team-player, proactive and flexible. Comfortable with leading and allowing your team to flourish
Typical Skills
7+ years experience in digital campaign and branding creative agencies
A track record of creating varied and inspiring digital campaigns and brands. Conceptual thinking is a must and should be demonstrated in your portfolio. Shoot experience is a bonus
A natural leader bringing energy and building personable relationships with everyone at Stereo
Design fanatic, obsessed with creative ideas and knowledgeable of current visual, cultural, interactive and motion trends
Obsessive learner within your discipline, hungry to know more and fluent in all the usual tools, applications and methods
Ability to work across multiple projects at one time while managing and delegating tasks between multiple creative disciplines
Knows their teams individual abilities inside-out and can match the right people with the right work
Stereo Benefits
Holidays
• 23 Days Holiday (basic)
• Extra Holiday Day per year of service (up to 5 years service)
• Day off on your birthday
• Summer Hours July & August (Half Day Friday)
• Closed over the entire Christmas period
Learning & Culture
• Flexible Hybrid working model (x2 Mandatory days in the studio)
• Monthly Stereo Sessions (Learning Opportunities with Guest Speakers)
• Annual Summer & Christmas Parties
• Quarterly Team lunch/breakfast
Wellbeing & Health
BUPA Employee Assistance (free, 24-hour confidential helpline service)
x1 Paid Volunteer Day
Additional
• New business bonus based on a % of the profit on the project for up to one year
• Intro recruitment bonus for successfully bringing friends / peers into the business £1,000 (Upon successful 3 month probation meeting).