About the role

Head of Creative at Rowden, driving brand design and creative direction in a growing engineering powerhouse. Focused on delivering a compelling narrative and cohesive visual identity.

Responsibilities

Guide a unified creative direction across our brand, our products, and experiences.
Drive coherence and quality across every major creative discipline.
Evolve design language across brand and product: typography, colour, layout, motion, iconography, UI tokens, and component guidelines.
Set the creative direction for campaigns, product launches, photography, film, demos, and case studies.
Translate the Rowden story into a visually compelling narrative across products, services, and markets.
Principles that govern how Rowden products look, feel, and behave.
Build the design architecture that keeps every discipline aligned as we scale, supporting multiple teams.
Establish and lead a trusted network of creatives, acting as a quality gate for all external work.
Manage timelines and ensure disciplined execution with no off-brand output.
Provide precise, informed feedback across design and other creative mediums.

A proven track record creating and leading world-class creative, whether in-house or agency-side.
A portfolio showing strong creative direction across digital, print, product, technical communication, demos, and marketing.
The ability to originate clear, ambitious ideas and drive them through to precise, high-quality delivery.
Strong visual communication skills and the ability to articulate concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
A collaborative working style, building strong relationships with engineering, product, sales, and marketing teams to deliver creative that supports growth in target markets.
Curiosity about our products, users, and markets, and a commitment to continuous learning and creative differentiation.
Deep command of design principles and the capability to guide multidisciplinary teams to a consistently high standard.
A commitment to producing distinctive work that raises the bar and scales across products, markets, and channels.

We are committed to building a flexible, inclusive, and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills, experience, and backgrounds, so please apply and come as you are!
We also recognise the importance of flexible working and support this wherever we can. We typically operate a flexible, hybrid-working model, with an average 3 days in the office each week (dependent on the role). We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility, part-time working requirements and/or workplace adjustments with all our applicants.
Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company, and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.
Finally, if you feel that you don’t meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we’d still love to hear from you!