Design Director

Who will you report to? Creative director

When? Monday to Friday, 9.30am until 5.30pm

Where? Three days per week from our studio in Farringdon

Deadline for applications? September 18th

Overview

We’re looking for a design director to join our mid-sized team of designers, writers, strategists and project managers.

You’ll need to be empathetic, a team player and an excellent communicator. You’ll also need to be conscientious. There’s a good reason for everything we do and for every decision we make, so you’ll need to be someone who demonstrates this same degree of care — both in your work and your interactions with others.

What we’re looking for

• A craft obsessive: You’re a brilliant designer, obsessed with the craft of design. You have industry-leading skills and an ability to inspire your team to ever higher standards.
• A strategic thinking: You combine your beautifully-considered design with excellent strategic thinking that inspires your team and clients.
• Storytelling: You’re a great storyteller and communicator, able to pitch killer ideas with confidence, intelligence and passion.
• A leader: You enjoy leading teams of extraordinary creative thinkers, bringing out the best in those around you.
• Promoting positivity: You endeavour to bring positivity and problem solving expertise to the various challenges you’ll face from your team, a project or a client.
• Sector knowledge: You share our passion for, and have a view on, the clients in our portfolio that work in the tech and purpose sectors.
• Workflow expert: You’re an empathetic mentor who’s comfortable leading multiple teams and projects at the same time.

You’ll need to be

• Fluent in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and motion design packages including Adobe After Effects

Desirable, but not essential:

• Experience using Figma and Google Slides

Benefits

• Flexi-hours: We offer flexi-time around our core working hours to allow for personal commitments.
• Hybrid working: Our team split their time between our studio in Farringdon, central London, and remote working.
• Career development: We have a considered and robust framework for career development, as well as an annual training budget of £1,000 to further your skill set and knowledge.
• Holidays: 28 days per year (in addition to public holidays)
• Company sick pay scheme
• Private healthcare: We offer comprehensive, fully-subsidised private health insurance from Vitality. This includes an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, a reward scheme that offers Amazon Prime, cinema tickets, and fitness tracking devices.
• Family friendly: Enhanced maternity and paternity packages
• Socials: We organise regular studio socials and hold our own event series.

Who we are

Human After All is a creative agency based in London. We create brand-led communications for some of the world’s most influential organisations, predominantly across the tech and purpose sectors. At HAA our values shape everything we do. We’re a certified B Corporation, and we pride ourselves on being great humans. To fit in you’ll need to be empathetic, a team player and an excellent communicator. You’ll also need to be conscientious: there’s a good reason for everything we do and for every decision we take, so you’ll need to be someone who demonstrates this same degree of care — both in your work and your interactions with others.

HAA’s ambition is that just as we hope our work will go beyond expectations, we also hope it will achieve bigger things. We want our creativity to be a force for good. We want the communications we create to be instruments for change in the world. We ask that you consider social and environmental causes both in your day-to-day activities at Human After All, and through our purpose-focused client work.

How to apply

Simply upload a CV and covering letter. The deadline for applications is the September 18th.

If you would like to check out our equality and diversity statement then please click here.

Please be aware, as we are a UK based business we're not in a position to employ candidates who're based overseas.