Design Director

StudioXAG - Certified B Corporation®

Design Director leading creative projects at StudioXAG in London, shaping design standards and mentoring teams. Driving innovation and creative collaboration within the Creative Studio.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLead💰 £70,000 - £95,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define, direct and elevate design across the Creative Studio.
Lead some of our most ambitious and strategically important projects while helping raise the creative bar across the wider studio.
Mentor and develop Lead Designers, strengthen team capability and influence the evolution of our creative output through your standards, leadership and taste.
Take ownership of a key area of creative innovation or capability, helping shape how our Creative Studio grows in the future.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A highly creative and experienced design leader with exceptional creative judgement and the ability to define strong ideas across multiple projects and teams
Experienced within luxury brand, retail, experiential or agency environments, with a track record of mentoring creatives and elevating team capability
A confident communicator, presenter and storyteller who can sell ideas and build trust with senior stakeholders
Someone who balances bold ideas with commercial awareness and understands how to deliver impactful work at scale
Deeply connected to culture, design and innovation, with curiosity about how our industry is evolving
Technically confident across industry-standard tools (SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, rendering software etc.)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Gross profit-related annual bonus scheme
Workplace pension
22 days holiday + Christmas closure + birthday off + bank holidays
0.5 paid days/month to get inspired
International research budgets and trips
YCN creative learning membership
Spill mental health support
Cycle to work scheme
Fitness discounts

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Hard Skills & Tools

design leadershipcreative judgementmentoringproject managementcreative innovationcommercial awareness

Soft Skills

communicationpresentationstorytellingteam capability developmenttrust building