Design Teams’ Purpose: To Create unforgettable work that drives seismic commercial results.
Design Director’s Purpose: Lead with strategic, visionary thinking while empowering team input.
As a Design Director at Taxi Studio, you’re the glue that binds the Design and Project Team together–and you’re the driving force behind our creative output. Highly accomplished at creating exceptional ideas, possessing eagle-eyes for exacting craft, and a laser sharp strategic brain, you’ll flex your creative muscles at every phase of a project–from the initial briefing to final production. And as guardian of the projects in your care, you’ll champion of positioning (Create unforgettable).
A skilled navigator of complex branding challenges, you never lose sight of the big picture and are as comfortable challenging a brief as you’re solving it. And you know that, because your teammates look to you for inspiration and leadership, you’ll demonstrate the drive, dynamism and diplomacy needed to get the best out of them–and their work–by empowering them to solve brand problems by themselves.
You’ll be a key player on the Project Team while also making yourself available–as a creative catalyst and coach–within the broader Design Team, by helping them consistently Create unforgettable work while always being mindful of our Code of Conduct.
Inspiring Leader: Providing compelling creative visions–via incisive insights, and decisive direction–you’ll inspire and motivate your Designers to excel in their craft. By staying aware of current trends, you’ll help them to land exceptional ideas that are both timely and timeless, and that align to the strategy.
Design Strategist: Collaborating closely with the Strategy and Client Team, you’ll use your shrewd tactical mind to interrogate the brief and devise smart, effective design strategies that dovetail perfectly with their ambitions, objectives, and positioning.
Quality Gatekeeper: You’ll cast your discerning eyes over design work promptly, benchmarking it against our judging criteria. As gatekeeper for quality, you’ll champion both craft and consistency, catching (inevitable) errors–any ways to further improve the work–throughout the lifespan of a project.
Master Craftsperson: From CC to AI, your proficiency and prowess in the essential design tools make you the go-to advisor for the finer points of craft. And while your vision steers the project, you’ll be ready and willing to get hands-on with the creative process whenever necessary.
Persuasive Presenter: With a potent blend of experience, confidence, and charisma, you’ll captivate clients and key stakeholders with unforgettable work. And you’ll support the writing and crafting of creative presentations, simplifying them to the maximum by focusing on the most critical aspects to achieve efficiency, engagement, and clarity. This includes providing a compelling narrative to make them convincing and easy to buy into, both internally and externally.
Client Partner: Alongside the Project Team, you’ll form real relationships with our clients. You’ll seek to be their trusted partner-in-creativity–building trust–and being respectfully provocative to ensure that we are always in ‘working on behalf of clients’ mode to ensure they get the very best, unforgettable work.
Fame Seeker:We must make every effort to share and/or celebrate our work. And while not every project you undertake will require a case study, you’ll be responsible for creating them for those that do.
Empowering Mentor: As Design Director, people will look to you for on-the-job guidance to hone their critical thinking and practical skills. You’ll delegate tasks thoughtfully and appropriately–not just to unburden your busy schedule–but to nurture growth and development in others.
Project Overseer: Hand in glove with your Project Team, you’ll take a bird’s eye view of the design projects in your care from the initial briefing to timely completion. You’ll manage in-house and external resource to ensure projects are on-point, on-time, and on-budget–and create client delight.
Progressive Visionary:You’ll keep abreast of emerging tech and industry You’ll also observe and champion Taxi Studio’s Five Laws of AI to ensure we keep us humans at the coalface of creative thinking.
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