Design Director

Office of Overview
LocationLondon [Hybrid]
Salary£58,500 – £70,000
Experience LevelSenior
Job TypeFull Time, Fixed Term
Job Posted20 Aug 2025
Application Ends17 Sep 2025

Job Description

Overview is a creative agency
helping brands shape worlds people want to live in. We work with brands who are tired of conservative, safe and predictable agency output. Brands that want to play a more meaningful role in peoples lives and demand the creativity, cultural strategy and design rigour to show up for their people and make a dent in the world.

We are looking for a Design Director to lead a small team of designers to creative glory, through:

Design Leadership

  • Setting the creative standard
  • Leading the ideation + development of design & brand projects
  • Shape concepts into bold, culturally relevant design
  • Champion craft, consistency, and attention to detail

Project Leadership

  • Lead projects from ideas to final delivered brands, merchandise, websites, video + photoshoots
  • Balance creativity with commercial thinking
  • Keep a small team, clients, and timelines moving in sync

Mentorship

  • Inspire, coach, and grow emerging talent
  • Create a collaborative, supportive studio culture
  • Lead by example, in craft and in professionalism

We are a small team of strategists, CD’s and designers all working toward making more culturally fluent brands. This takes graft and grit, but is incredibly rewarding. You’ll be working between the directors and the project teams, with clients and without, but across all design related requirements.

About You

If you are a hungry senior who wants to lead, or a DD who wants more autonomy, and your capacity for brave, cultural ideas is met only by your ability to delivery them with craft and rigour, this position is for you.

Salary & Benefits

  • £58500 - £70000 PA
  • 20 Days Holidays Allowance + BH and 2 Week Xmas Shut down
  • Hybrid WFH & Hackney Office

How to apply

Please send a folio of work to work@officeofoverview.com with the subject line: Design Director Application (followed by your name)

JOB #2394295866