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Associate Design Director – 12 Months Maternity Cover
DEPT®Associate Design Director leading a design team at DEPT® to drive creative excellence and collaboration. Managing projects, mentor designers, and uphold brand standards in a hybrid environment.
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead, develop, motivate and inspire the design team on a daily basis
- Suggest best ways of working, hustle for the best outcome and opportunities
- Work with the Design Director to develop processes, structures and raise the quality of design
- Build a productive and collaborative working relationship with other disciplines across the agency to deliver projects
- Maintain brand consistency throughout all our projects, acting as brand guardian
- Review scopes and collaborate with resource team, to ensure timings reflect best quality outcomes
- Generate creative ideas and campaign look and feels
- Deliver and inspire innovative and high quality work across all deliverables from the team
- Be a reliable escalation point for design team and wider stakeholders, signing off work and communicating in a timely manner
- Be aware of and respond to current design trends and culture
- Use your experience and ideas to contribute to the development of our creative process
- Present work internally and externally
- Stay up-to-date with industry development and tools
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience in a Design Manager or Associate Design Director role
- A career in design, showcasing a portfolio/showreel of campaign work
- Expert technical skills, Adobe suite & Figma, Google Suite
- Experience in video production and post production techniques
- Experience in resource and time management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A high attention to detail, especially in large scale asset production and sign off
- Experience in creating and reviewing scopes/timing plans
- Strong aesthetic skills with art direction and graphic design principles
- Ability to remain focused under pressure within a fast-paced environment
- A love for learning new things and exploring new formats
Benefits
Comp & perks- A flexible, hybrid working policy
- The choice of medical healthcare providers (Bupa or Medicash)
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off each year
- Company pension scheme
- EAP scheme
- Ride to work scheme
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Buddy Program: You will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help you through your first weeks’ at DEPT®.
- A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
- Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
- The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
- Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.
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Hard Skills & Tools
design managementvideo productionpost production techniquesresource managementtime managementart directiongraphic design principlesAdobe SuiteFigmaGoogle Suite
Soft Skills
leadershipmotivationcollaborationcommunicationattention to detailfocus under pressurecreativityproblem-solvingadaptabilityinspiration