With Intelligence is looking for a driven Head of Design who can join this rapidly growing company to drive our design standards to the next level and help deliver brand impact.
The candidate needs to have the vision and necessary drive to develop and spearhead the design department, both creatively and commercially. You will understand the importance of brand, have an eye for current design and understand how this can be successfully translated into successful campaigns and products both on and offline as you will be supporting our data and analytics platform business, as well as our live events portfolio consisting of conferences, round tables, awards and other events. You will work closely with the Product, Marketing and Sales teams, ensuring collateral and materials are delivered on time to high design standards.
Experience of managing people is essential, but you will also be closely involved in the day to day delivery. You will be liaising with stakeholders across the company so good stakeholder management skills are important.
The Role
The Head of Design will be responsible for developing and managing all aspects of our design and creative output, in line with our brand guidelines, primarily focused on our digital platform business as well as our Events.
This is a people and function leadership role where building and maintaining relationships is key, with accountability for online and offline design output. The role involves working with internal clients such as Product, Sales and Events, demand gen and product marketing to ensure that design output is aligned to company strategic and commercial priorities, and executed within budget and timescales. Additionally, you will be responsible for shaping the design look and feel of our customer facing website, and driving digital innovation with a user-centric & stylistic approach across our digital platforms.
You will act as our brand guardian, owning the guidelines and ensuring their application so that the brand visual identity is delivered consistently and with impact across touchpoints. You will be required to develop brand creative concepts, helping us to bring our distinctive positioning to life.
As team manager your responsibilities will include recruiting and managing internal design resource and managing multi-disciplinary third party suppliers as necessary.
The role will involve you using your best practice toolkit to implement new processes and practices to improve efficiency of the design and creative department. Use of AI and development of our video function will be important growth areas.
Responsibilities
* Strategic design and creative leadership
* Develop creative programs and design concepts that meet the business objectives of the organisation and that advance our brand and proposition strategy
* Take a lead role in managing the design and creative elements of projects and be point of contact for creative projects.
* Lead concept development in relation to design and creative outputs
* Take ownership of brand guidelines, ensure training and governance to ensure all output adheres to brand principles, helping drive an increase in recognition and brand awareness through consistency and impact.
Innovation
* Introducing new ideas and formats for improvement
* Set up video production
* Propose uses of AI to ensure quality and efficiency
* Establish and develop best practice with the design and creative team
Project management and delivery
* Commercial accountability through accurate scoping and quoting of work
* Ensuring the on time and on budget delivery of design in alignment with business requirements
* Strong focus on collateral for our digital platform and related products, and digital channels
* Supporting Events business with all requirements
* Providing quality control over design outputs and production
* Developing and managing productivity and continuously improving the design team’s production capabilities introducing workflows to improve efficiency.
People and stakeholder management
* Managing the design team and freelancers as required
* Working closely with internal stakeholders, building strong relationships in Product, Sales and Events
* Working with other team members (Technical / Marketing) to deliver projects and activity to deadlines
* Point of contact for liaising with external suppliers as required
Minimum Requirements
* Demonstrable experience in team management. Coach, mentor and motivate team members while demonstrating a business outcomes approach to work
* Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and departments to build strong lasting relationships
* Keen interest in brand and design, stays on top of industry knowledge and trends
* The ability to translate ideas to designers and others, influencing external and internal stakeholders
* A strong working knowledge of online and offline design, brand development and management and the creative process
* Ability to manage design projects from concept to completion
* Excellent organizational and communication skills and the ability to manage multiple projects
* Problem solving attitude and strong attention to detail
* Strong digital channel design skills and experience
* Experience of creating designs for email and mobile
* Knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, typography & limitations of online and offline design work.
* Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
* Experience with relevant software - Indesign
Experience
* Previous experience in an agency environment
* At least five years experience in a senior designer role including concept development and client contact
* Proven track record in creating excellent brand and design work from concept to production
Benefits
* 24 days annual leave rising to 29 days
* Enhanced parental leave
* Medicash (Health Cash Plans)
* Wellness Days
* Flexible Fridays (Opportunity to finish early)
* Birthday day off
* Employee assistance program
* Travel loan scheme
* Charity days
* Breakfast provided
* Social Events throughout the year
* Hybrid Working
Our Company:
With Intelligence is based at One London Wall, London EC2Y 5EA. We offer amazing benefits, free breakfast daily and drinks provided all day, every day. We actively encourage social networks that oversee activities from sports, book reading to rock climbing, that you are free to join.
As part of our company, you will enjoy the benefits of an open plan office and working with a social and energetic team. With Intelligence provides exclusive editorial, research, data and events for senior executives within the asset management industry. These include hedge funds, private credit, private equity, real estate and traditional asset management, and our editorial brands are seen as market leaders in providing asset manager sales and IR execs with the actionable information they require to help them raise and retain assets. To maintain and grow our position in the market we need to continue to hire highly motivated, thoughtful and to ensure our subscribers are getting the exclusive intelligence they need first, and most comprehensively, through our range of services. If you are interested so far in what you have read, please apply, we look forward to hearing from you.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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