You will also lead and manage a multidisciplinary team of permanent staff and freelancers, providing creative direction while remaining hands-on.

This will include:

• Managing workloads, delegation, feedback, and creative development.
• Acting as the key creative link between the artist, creative team, and production teams.
• Briefing and coordinating external designers, fabricators, manufacturers, printers, and other specialists.
• Overseeing creative workflow, deliverables, and quality.
• Supporting the development of the creative team and freelance network.

A key part of the role is bringing structure and organisation to a fast-moving creative environment. You will:

• Turn evolving ideas into clear briefs, priorities, and next steps.
• Create timelines and manage workflow across multiple projects.
• Manage competing priorities and keep projects moving.
• Oversee projects from creative development through production and final delivery.
• Maintain organised project files, archives, references, and creative assets.
• Anticipate challenges and find practical, creative solutions.
• Remain calm, proactive, and adaptable when priorities shift or deadlines are tight.

You will oversee the transition from creative development into production, working with fabricators, manufacturers, printers, suppliers, and production teams. You should have a good understanding of materials, fabrication methods, and technical requirements, and be able to balance creative ambition with practical and budgetary considerations.

Requirements

We are looking for someone with significant experience across art and design, rather than a purely commercial or advertising background.

You will ideally have:

• A strong background in contemporary art, design, architecture, fashion, film, spatial or exhibition design, cultural projects, or multidisciplinary creative studios.
• A substantial portfolio demonstrating strong visual and conceptual work.
• Excellent drawing and sketching skills, particularly when developing initial creative ideas.
• A strong visual imagination and the ability to turn loose ideas or references into compelling concepts.
• Experience creating concept artwork, visualisations, renders, moodboards, and presentations.
• Experience taking ambitious creative ideas through to physical or final realisation.
• Strong 2D and 3D visual understanding, including experience overseeing 3D assets.
• Fluency in key creative software.
• Experience managing creative teams, freelancers, and external collaborators.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills, including timelines, workflow, and prioritisation.
• Exceptional attention to detail and high standards of execution.
• The ability to work closely with an artist or creative founder and interpret an evolving creative vision.
• A calm, practical, and solutions-oriented approach.
• A hands-on attitude and the confidence to make, develop, and refine work yourself.

The successful candidate will be equally comfortable discussing an idea with an artist, picking up a pencil to sketch it, developing a visual direction, creating a render, briefing a designer or fabricator, reviewing a prototype, solving a production problem, and managing the next stage of the project.

The role requires calm, precision, creativity, and quick thinking, with the ability to adapt as ideas develop and priorities shift.

Above all, we are looking for someone who can see an idea, draw it, develop it, visualise it, communicate it, and help make it real.

The role is predominantly studio-based in London, with some travel depending on the needs of the work.

Bonus: Mandarin speaking would be highly advantageous.

Start date: ASAP

Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.