Design Director

Agency:
FutureBrand
Job Function:
Creative
Job Subfunction:
Design Job Description:
Design Director

The team c aptain .  Master of your craft. A dynamic multitasker  and inspiring mentor. A great design director doesn’t just  manage — they elevate everything around them. ​

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As a strategic powerhouse and creative force, you have the  unique ability to challenge conventions, spark innovation, and  lead by example. You are the champion of the brands you work  with, a steadfast protector of creative integrity, and an  invaluable partner to our clients. As a mentor, you empower  your team to reach new heights, guiding them to create  groundbreaking designs that redefine the category. ​

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Your passion for consumer branding and packaging is  unwavering, and you have an intuitive sense of what resonates  with audiences. With a pulse on the present and an eye toward  the future, you are not afraid to push boundaries and share  bold, insightful perspectives that shape the industry. Always  curious, always evolving — you inspire others to think bigger  and design bolder, leaving a lasting impact on the world of  consumer branding. ​

Responsibilities and Tasks:

Instrumental in the creation of future brands.

Lead and push the strategic and creative direction  ensuring that we produce exceptional and insightful  creative solutions. ​

A natural storyteller, you excite, compel and inspire those  around you– from clients to colleagues. ​

Build a strong understanding of the client’s culture,  business motivations and long-term plans and get under  the skin of the client’s brief and wider category context ​

Responsible for ensuring you and the team produce  category breaking creative that can be expressed across  all points of connected experience.  ​

Have a point of view and never be afraid to share it.  Understand new trends and creative. Be the go-to person  for insights, updates and news. ​

Work collaboratively with the wider team to steer and  inform the direction of the strategy. You are able to  communicate brand strategy into creative. ​

Take pride in the quality of our client presentations and  make sure the work is sold as effectively as it deserves. ​

Develop solid and trusted relationships with your clients.  Get to know your clients and be able to deal with them  directly. Understand and share their passion for their  brand, as well as their pressures and frustrations.  ​

A collaborator. Building rock  solid relationships at every turn. ​

A valued member of the business you have strong  relationships with your peers across the breath of the  agency and work together to get the best results. ​

Contribute to a highly collaborative and energized  atmosphere in which positive disruption is encouraged.  ​

Develop relationships with your peers within the  FutureBrand  Group more broadly.  ​

Develop a great team of designers. Drive your team with  integrity, ambition and maintain an appetite of excellence  across all that your team delivers. ​

Be effective with your conversations and feedback, even if  some of those conversations aren’t easy. Manage difficult  situations but know when to involve more senior colleagues. ​

Use your experience to advise the team on how to shape  and deliver their work. A solid mentor, imparting your  knowledge and expertise, whilst helping the more junior  team members grow and flourish.  ​

Exude a spirit of generosity and perceptiveness towards  others in the agency. Inspiring through your actions and  your openness. ​

Nurture the growth and health  of your clients’ business. ​

Be commercially conscious, understanding how you get  the best out of your project and your team to deliver  exceptional and profitable results. ​

Work closely with project management to accurately and  actively define and scope projects. ​

Make sure we deliver a quality project, to an extremely  happy client, while balancing the agency’s commercial and  reputational interests. ​

Along with your other triumvirate partners you lead the  creative and have a shared responsibility for Account  development, Quality of work, Commercial ‘health’, Team  ‘health’ and wellbeing.  ​

There are always pressure points in our industry, but you are  an expert in remaining calm under pressure and can support  others in achieving the same .   ​

Experiment with new approaches and create new  opportunities within projects to develop our offer and  broaden & deepen our relationships with clients ​

Hungrily seek out growth opportunities for the brand and  the agency. Understand the wider  FutureBrand  Group and  McCann  WorldGroup  offering and actively promote their  services to your client.  ​

When you join  FutureBrand  we want to make sure you feel  comfortable, supported, and safe in the knowledge that  we’ve got your back. We offer a range of flexible benefits  to boost your lifestyle, support good health and protect  your future. We also have regular perks in the office and  have an active Social Committee.   ​

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
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