Creative Lead - Design

Creative Lead – Design
Senior design craft. Strong leadership. Hands-on creative impact.

We’re looking for an experienced Creative Lead – Design who combines exceptional design craft with strong people leadership. This is a hands-on role for a senior designer who can lead a team, elevate the quality of the work and help turn creative strategy into brilliant execution across our brands.

What you’ll do

• Lead, mentor and manage a team of designers, providing clear direction, feedback and support.
• Partner closely with the Head of Creative to translate creative and brand strategy into strong, effective work.
• Take ownership of day-to-day design quality and creative execution across the studio.
• Remain hands-on, designing and art directing priority campaigns and projects.
• Lead creative from concept through to final execution across digital, social, CRM, web, product, print and internal channels.
• Bring strong multimedia thinking across static design, video, motion and animation.
• Build and maintain scalable design systems, templates and brand assets in Figma.
• Work closely with Copy, Marketing, Product and other teams to deliver joined-up creative.
• Review work and ensure everything leaving the studio meets a consistently high creative and brand standard.
• Help the team work smarter and faster through better design processes, tools, templates and emerging AI capabilities.

What you’ll bring

• 7+ years’ design experience at Senior Designer, Design Lead or Art Director level., with 2+ years leading or mentoring designers in a fast-paced in-house, agency or digital environment.
• Proven experience managing and developing designers.
• Advanced Figma skills are essential.
• Strong working knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite
• Strong multimedia capability, including motion, video and digital design.
• Excellent conceptual thinking, art direction, typography and visual storytelling.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality, multi-channel creative work.
• Experience working in a fast-paced in-house studio, agency, fintech, financial services or digital-first environment.
• The confidence to present ideas, challenge constructively and make creative decisions.
• The ability to balance leadership, strategic thinking and hands-on design.
• Help the Head of Creative to build a collaborative, accountable and creatively ambitious design team.

The kind of person we’re looking for

A strong designer first and foremost. Someone who can lead from the work, bring the best out of other designers and create clarity when things are moving quickly.

You’ll be comfortable getting into Figma and designing one minute, giving considered feedback the next, and partnering with the Head of Creative on the bigger creative direction after that.