Mynt
Senior Creative Designer
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Lead Designer / Senior Creative
Location
Leicester, UK
Employment
Permanent, full-time
Working arrangement
Studio Monday–Thursday, with flexible working and the option to work from home on Fridays
Salary
Competitive, dependent on experience and creative capability
The Opportunity
We're Mynt, an independent, insight-led creative agency with over 25 years' experience helping ambitious brands grow through strategy, brand identity, campaigns, digital content and physical experiences.
We're entering an exciting new chapter, with growing client relationships and multi-layered substantial creative projects that require talented humans, not robots, to craft and deliver.
We're looking for an outstanding Lead Designer / Senior Creative to strengthen our studio, help shape our creative output and play an important role in the next stage of Mynt's growth. This is an opportunity for someone who can think strategically, lead creatively and still loves getting hands-on with the work. You'll work with international brands across sport, outdoor and performance footwear and apparel, retail, textiles, flooring and energy, transforming complex commercial challenges into distinctive, effective creative work.
You'll report to our Creative Director and Art and Design Director, with the autonomy to lead substantial projects, influence creative direction and help develop the wider team.
What You'll be Doing
Finding and championing the big ideas
- Get beneath the brief, understand the audience and commercial challenge, and turn strategic insight into compelling creative ideas.
- Lead creative pitches, from initial thinking and concept development through to client presentations.
- Confidently articulate and defend your ideas, explaining their strategic relevance and commercial potential.
- Establish clear creative direction, inspire colleagues and provide constructive feedback that makes the work stronger.
Creating outstanding work
- Remain hands-on, developing concepts, brand identities, design systems, campaign ideas and finished creative rollout.
- Lead projects from initial brief through to final delivery, independently or alongside a wider team.
- Work across brand strategy and identity, advertising campaigns, product launches, film and photography concepts, art direction and digital content.
- Maintain exceptional attention to craft, consistency and creative quality across every execution.
- Manage substantial workloads, competing priorities and complex briefs with pace, focus and sound judgement.
Helping our studio thrive
- Work closely with project managers to deliver outstanding creative work efficiently, within agreed scopes, budgets and deadlines.
- Mentor and develop junior designers, helping strengthen their thinking, confidence and creative execution.
- Collaborate with strategists, designers, filmmakers, photographers, clients and production partners.
- Contribute to a studio culture built around curiosity, ambition, collaboration and exceptionally high creative standards.
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What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone with the creative intelligence, leadership experience and design craft to make a meaningful impact from day one.
Your experience
- At least 8 years' experience leading creative pitches, winning work and subsequently leading its delivery, ideally within a respected creative, branding, advertising or integrated agency.
- An outstanding portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, original ideas and exceptional design craft.
- Proven experience leading substantial brand and campaign projects, including complex briefs involving multiple stakeholders, channels or markets.
- The ability to translate brand strategy into compelling identities, campaigns and coherent creative systems.
- Experience developing concepts and directing creative work for film, photography and digital content.
- Confidence presenting to clients, explaining creative decisions and navigating constructive feedback.
- Experience directing designers and collaborating with multidisciplinary creative teams.
- Strong command of relevant design and presentation tools, alongside an organised and efficient approach to production.
Experience working with sport, outdoor, active lifestyle, retail or consumer brands would be advantageous, but it's not essential. The quality of your thinking, your work and your contribution matters more than a perfect sector CV. A degree isn't essential either.
The Person Behind the Work
Beyond your portfolio, we're looking for someone with the right attitude and ambition.
You'll be:
- Strategically intelligent: Curious about the bigger picture, commercially aware and interested in understanding what the work needs to achieve.
- Creatively ambitious: Passionate about producing distinctive, meaningful work that stands out for the right reasons.
- Confident but low-ego: Comfortable leading conversations, making decisions and constructively challenging ideas, while remaining open to other perspectives.
- Hands-on: Equally comfortable shaping the big idea and getting into the detail of its execution.
- Accountable and resourceful: Able to take ownership, solve problems and deliver consistently under pressure.
- Generous and collaborative: Someone who enjoys sharing knowledge, supporting colleagues and making the wider team better.
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What Success Looks Like
You'll be making a real difference when you're:
- Creating distinctive, strategically grounded work that achieves client objectives.
- Helping win exciting new business through compelling creative pitches.
- Leading projects confidently from idea to delivery without compromising creative quality.
- Delivering complex projects efficiently, on time and within agreed budgets.
- Helping junior designers develop their capabilities and confidence.
- Building trusted client relationships that lead to repeat work and longer-term partnerships.
What We Offer
We want great people to feel valued, supported and excited about their future at Mynt. Our package includes:
- Competitive salary reflecting your experience, creative capability and contribution.
- 20 days' annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Additional paid closure over Christmas and New Year above standard 20 days holiday.
- An extra paid day off for your birthday.
- End of year profit share bonus.
- Monthly car valet.
- Employer pension contribution.
- Life assurance.
- Opportunities to attend agreed industry events.
- Approved business-travel expenses.
- Regular team events and company celebrations.
- Flexible Fridays, including the option to work from home.
- Direct access to senior creative leadership, meaningful project ownership and opportunities to develop as Mynt grows.
Above all, you'll have the opportunity to do ambitious creative work for internationally recognised brands, within an independent agency where your ideas and contribution can make a genuine difference.
How to Apply
Show us how you think. And what you make. We'd love to see more than just a polished portfolio. Please send your information to: info@mynt.co.uk
Please submit:
- Your CV.
- Your portfolio, featuring two or three relevant projects.
- A short introduction explaining why Mynt feels like the right next step for you.
- Your salary expectations and notice period.
For your selected projects, we'd particularly like to understand:
- The original challenge or brief.
- Your personal contribution.
- The creative thinking and idea behind the work.
- The final outcome and its impact.
We'd be especially interested in seeing an example of a creative pitch you helped win, and how you subsequently led the work through to delivery.
We're looking for someone who can own the idea, shape the work and help make brands matter.
If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you - info@mynt.co.uk
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