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Design Lead
🚀 High-Growth Challenger Brand
📍 Central London (5 days a week in the office)
💸 £60,000 to £70,000
🤑 EMI Share Options
Ignite are delighted to be partnering with one of the most exciting challenger brands in the UK. You may have seen them making headlines over the past few years through a string of industry awards, rapid growth and even an appearance on Dragon's Den.
From a design perspective, this brand is genuinely world-class. They've built a beautiful product range and a distinctive visual identity that has helped them stand out in a highly competitive market. As the business continues to scale, they're now looking to hire a Design Lead to join the growing creative team and act as the bridge between the Founders and the wider Design function.
This is a highly influential role where you'll help shape and elevate the creative direction of the brand across every touchpoint. From digital campaigns and paid social through to packaging, email, web, print and brand activations, you'll be responsible for ensuring the creative output is consistently best-in-class.
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If you're excited by the opportunity to leave your mark on one of the fastest-growing challenger brands in the world and help take an already exceptional brand to the next level creatively, this could be the perfect next move.
What skills do you need to have to be considered?
- ⭐️ 5+ years of experience in design, ideally in-house for an FMCG challenger brand
- ⭐️ Proven ability to lead and develop designers (you will be managing a team of 3)
- ⭐️ A generalist portfolio with experience across brand, digital, packaging, and performance creative
- ⭐️ Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere) and Figma
- ⭐️ Fluency with AI creative tools such as Runway, Adobe AI features, ChatGPT, Gemini
- ⭐️ Comfortable working in a fast-moving, founder-led environment where you will need to make decisions quickly
In return for everything you can bring, the business can offer you 🚀:
- ⭐️ Basic salary from £60k - £70k (based on experience)
- ⭐️ EMI Shares
- ⭐️ Chance to join an unbelievable brand which is growing seriously fast
- ⭐️ Opportunity to work with and alongside an extremely experienced Marketing team
- ⭐️ Extremely sociable business with regular socials & get-togethers
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What happens next? 🎬
Now: Apply today with your CV which will be reviewed by our Ignite team.
First Stage: Teams call with the hiring manager
Second Stage: Face to face interview in the office
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We would love to reply to all applications, regrettably we are unable to do so due to the high volumes we receive, so if you do not hear back within 14 days unfortunately on this role it won’t be progressing. It is possible that the position could be in the process of closing, so chalk it up to bad timing. But, have no fear! There will be more opportunities. Follow us so you don’t miss them. 👀
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