Head of Design

Salary: £55,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience in a senior creative, design leadership, Design Director or Head of Design position
• Digital, integrated or creative agency experience
• Experience leading multidisciplinary designers across areas such as UX/UI, digital, brand, campaigns and motion
• Strong creative direction experience, with the ability to guide and challenge work rather than needing to personally execute everything
• Experience developing creative strategy and translating business, audience and client challenges into compelling creative direction
• Strong understanding of digital experiences and how Design works alongside Development
• Experience providing senior direction across website and digital product design
• Experience managing, coaching and developing designers at different levels of seniority
• Confidence presenting creative thinking and recommendations to senior client stakeholders
• Experience contributing to or leading pitches and new business opportunities
• Strong commercial understanding of agency delivery, including scope, budgets, utilisation and resourcing
• Experience working collaboratively across multiple disciplines and departments
• Experience across both UX/UI and wider brand or campaign creative
• Exposure to performance-led creative and an understanding of how creative contributes to measurable marketing outcomes
• Experience helping shape or evolve agency creative services and capabilities
• Experience improving design processes, systems and ways of working
• An understanding of emerging creative technology and the effective use of AI within Design

Responsibilities:

• Lead a multidisciplinary Design team across UX/UI, digital design, brand, campaigns and motion
• Set and maintain the overall creative standard across the agency
• Provide senior creative direction across high-profile and strategically important client projects
• Lead and contribute to creative strategy across websites, digital products, campaigns and performance-led creative
• Provide senior direction across UX/UI, information architecture, interaction design, design systems and visual design
• Work closely with Development to balance creative ambition with technical feasibility, accessibility, scalability and performance
• Lead, coach and develop designers at different levels of seniority
• Manage team performance, progression, capability and development
• Oversee departmental resourcing, utilisation, capacity and budgets
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and act as a senior creative partner
• Play a key role in pitches and new business opportunities, helping shape creative concepts, narratives and proposals
• Collaborate with other department heads and senior leadership to influence wider agency strategy and capability
• Improve creative processes, ways of working and collaboration across teams
• Help the team make effective use of emerging technology and AI to improve creative quality, capability and efficiency

Technologies:

• AI
• Marketing
• UX UI Design

More:

We are a growing, employee-owned digital agency based in Leeds, working in a hybrid model with three days per week onsite. This is a 12-month fixed-term maternity cover contract for an experienced Head of Design. We offer a broad creative leadership opportunity with responsibility for the quality, direction and capability of our multidisciplinary Design team, working closely with senior leadership and teams across digital, development, performance marketing and client services on major client engagements, pitches and new business opportunities.

last updated 39 week of 2026