Hybrid Head of Design

at Wild

• Job title: Head of Design
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Head of Design leading in-house creative team at Wild Cosmetics, focusing on bold brand development and innovative execution across various channels. Drive impactful design for DTC and Retail space.

Responsibilities

• Reporting into the Creative Director, your main focuses will be: Creative innovation - you’ll translate briefs into effective creative deliverables, inspiring the team with your innovative executions for paid social, CRM, retail, campaign aesthetics and brand awareness projects which deliver a bold and impactful message
• Manage, lead and inspire the design team across digital and print collateral
• Create new ways to unlock respective audiences, from customer acquisition to retention
• Creative strategy - alongside our Creative Director you’ll bring a data lead approach to new product and new market growth
• Development and delivery of our retail design work to ensure our customer experience is consistent with our bold aesthetic, whilst informative enough to communicate our products
• Design for our physical products, analysing current trends and outputting them into product case designs
• Support in art direction across brand, design and photography to ensure our content lives up to our bold and engaging aesthetic

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience within a creative team
• A resourceable do-er, this is a high-output role
• A confident leader who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments and can inspire a team to deliver their best work.
• A strong ability to translate briefs into effective, bold, creative ideas
• Thorough experience with design for a range of channels and formats including packaging, CRM, paid/organic social, print media, OOH
• A deep understanding of creative for paid social
• Thorough experience within art direction
• A balance of creative instinct and commercial awareness — able to champion bold ideas while keeping business goals front and centre.
• Experience in managing and mentoring, to develop the careers of our design team
• Expertise within the Adobe Creative Suite & Figma
• Rock solid organisational skills to ensure the teams briefs are hit on time, within an often fast-paced and reactive environment
• A guardian of the tiniest of details

Benefits

• 25 days holidays + bank holidays + 9 extra remote working days
• Hybrid working, 3 days a week in our shiny new London office
• 4% Company Pension
• Mental well-being support through Spill
• Private healthcare through Vitality
• Weekly early finishes and social events
• Annual L&D budget
• Free breakfast
• Free & discounted Wild products
• 2 x team volunteering days and 2 x personal volunteering days