89 Art Director jobs in the United Kingdom

A global marketing and production agency is hiring an Art Director to shape creative concepts and visual direction across campaigns, activations, and content for leading consumer brands. You’ll bring big ideas to life through compelling design, ensuring that every output is impactful, consistent, and aligned with brand strategy.

Role: Art Director

Salary: £60,000 per annum

Location: London (Liverpool Street) – Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead creative development across integrated campaigns, influencer activations, and branded content
• Translate client briefs into strong visual concepts, ensuring alignment with brand identity and campaign goals
• Collaborate with strategists, designers, producers, and copywriters to deliver cohesive creative work
• Direct design and production teams, providing clear feedback and raising creative standards
• Develop mood boards, style guides, and visual frameworks that bring storytelling to life
• Oversee execution across multiple channels – from social content and digital to live activations and events
• Stay ahead of cultural and design trends, bringing fresh thinking into pitches and projects

What you’ll need:

• Proven experience as an Art Director or Senior Designer within an agency environment
• A strong portfolio showcasing brand campaigns, influencer-led activations, or lifestyle-driven creative work
• Ability to lead creative ideation while also guiding design execution
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, comfortable working with clients and stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects)
• Experience creating content across digital, social, and experiential formats

What’s on offer:

• Salary of £60,000 per annum
• Hybrid working – 3 days per week in London offices (Liverpool Street)
• The chance to work on global campaigns for leading beauty, fashion, lifestyle, and tech brands
• A collaborative, fast-paced agency culture with international scope

If you’re a creative leader who thrives on delivering bold, visually striking work and enjoys working across diverse brand campaigns, this is an excellent opportunity to make your mark.

A global marketing and production agency is hiring an Art Director to shape creative concepts and visual direction across campaigns, activations, and content for leading consumer brands. You’ll bring big ideas to life through compelling design, ensuring that every output is impactful, consistent, and aligned with brand strategy.

Role: Art Director

Salary: £60,000 per annum

Location: London (Liverpool Street) – Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead creative development across integrated campaigns, influencer activations, and branded content
• Translate client briefs into strong visual concepts, ensuring alignment with brand identity and campaign goals
• Collaborate with strategists, designers, producers, and copywriters to deliver cohesive creative work
• Direct design and production teams, providing clear feedback and raising creative standards
• Develop mood boards, style guides, and visual frameworks that bring storytelling to life
• Oversee execution across multiple channels – from social content and digital to live activations and events
• Stay ahead of cultural and design trends, bringing fresh thinking into pitches and projects

What you’ll need:

• Proven experience as an Art Director or Senior Designer within an agency environment
• A strong portfolio showcasing brand campaigns, influencer-led activations, or lifestyle-driven creative work
• Ability to lead creative ideation while also guiding design execution
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, comfortable working with clients and stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects)
• Experience creating content across digital, social, and experiential formats

What’s on offer:

• Salary of £60,000 per annum
• Hybrid working – 3 days per week in London offices (Liverpool Street)
• The chance to work on global campaigns for leading beauty, fashion, lifestyle, and tech brands
• A collaborative, fast-paced agency culture with international scope

If you’re a creative leader who thrives on delivering bold, visually striking work and enjoys working across diverse brand campaigns, this is an excellent opportunity to make your mark.

As part of our commitment to delivering agile, high-impact creative solutions, we are establishing a new on-site Fast Response Content Centre embedded directly within our client's organisation. This dedicated hub will serve as a central engine for content creation, enabling closer collaboration, deeper brand integration, and faster turnaround on digital assets. By positioning the team at the heart of the client’s business, we ensure greater alignment with strategic priorities and the ability to produce, adapt, and deploy content at scale across multiple European markets, all while maintaining exceptional quality and consistency.

This role will be based in Chertsey, with a requirement to work from the offices for 4 days per week. As with all Cheil roles, this is a 12-month fixed term contract in the first instance.

Please send us your CV and portfolio to apply. This is a midweight level position.

A start date of mid-November is preferred.

The Opportunity

The Art Director will lead creative direction within the Fast Response Content Centre, ensuring the delivery of high volumes of consistent, high-quality digital content at speed. Working across origination, bespoke asset creation, and minor adaptations, the Art Director will set the creative vision, maintain brand excellence, and enable the team to respond quickly to business and European D2C priorities.

This role is pivotal in balancing agility with creativity, managing workflows, and leveraging new tools and technologies to drive efficiency in content production.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Leadership

• Own the creative direction of the Content Centre, ensuring outputs are on-brand, innovative, and consistent across channels.
• Provide oversight and feedback on designer and editor work, setting quality benchmarks.
• Shape briefs of low-to-mid complexity into effective content solutions.
• Support campaign teams with ideation when required, while ensuring the Content Centre owns delivery of fast-turnaround briefs.

Content Production & Oversight

• Direct origination shoots (1 motion and 1 stills scoped, with scope for more).
• Oversee development of template-driven assets (supplied by Cheil Spain), bespoke copy-visual combinations, and rapid adaptations (dates, pricing, legal).
• Ensure creation of master assets for rollout across multiple markets, formats, and sizes.
• Guarantee English master delivery (or country-of-origin as supplied).

Workflow & Tools

• Champion the use of tools and platforms to increase efficiency and creative output quality.
• Manage creative workflows using Jira.
• Guide asset development and collaboration in Figma.
• Integrate AI tools (Adobe Firefly, Mid ourney) into content production.

Collaboration & Alignment

• Act as a bridge between client stakeholders and creative teams, aligning outputs with European D2C priorities.
• Partner with campaign and marketing teams to ensure content supports wider business objectives.
• Lead collaboration across channels, ensuring rapid response and consistency of brand experience.

Skills & Experience

• Proven track record as an Art Director in an in-house, agency, or high-volume content production environment.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating creative excellence in digital, social, and eCommerce content.
• Experience in both static and motion content creation, including oversight of stills and video shoots.
• Strong understanding of template creative systems, asset rollouts, and localisation processes.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to balance speed, volume, and creativity under tight deadlines.

Proficiency with creative platforms:

• Jira (workflow/project management)
• Celtra (Automation platform)
• Figma (collaboration and design oversight)
• Adobe Firefly (AI content creation)
• Mid Journey (AI content creation)

About you

• Creative leader with a strong eye for brand detail and storytelling.
• Agile and adaptable, thriving in a fast-response, high-volume content environment.
• Proactive, collaborative, and comfortable working embedded on-site with stakeholders.
• Enthusiastic about harnessing new creative tools and AI innovations to push efficiency and quality.

The Agency…

Welcome to Cheil, based in London and Chertsey – A group of thinkers and doers who make things that move.

We build campaigns. Shops. Robots. One-of-a-kind-experiences. Anything that transports people, brands and products rooted in digital innovation. It’s an approach that’s seen us partnering with the likes of Absolut, Coca-Cola, Samsung and Jaguar Land Rover, creating enduring ideas for any marker – and within any medium.

As a full service agency we’ve got plenty of experience in shopper marketing, experiential, traditional advertising, social, retail design and sponsorship – awards to show for it, too. In the past few years we’ve earned our share of Cannes Lions, Clios, POPAIs and Kinsale Sharks.

As part of Cheil Worldwide, Cheil UK plays its part in one of the world’s biggest agency networks – comprising 53 offices and eight affiliates in 42 countries globally.

The perks you can take advantage of in return…

• A competitive salary
• 25 days holiday
• 1 extra day off for moving house
• 3 extra days off for wedding or Civil Partnership
• Discounted Samsung products
• Discretionary company bonus scheme, subject to bonus scheme rules
• Money off gym membership
• Stakeholder pension
• Group Income Protection
• Private medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to work scheme

Art Director with Beauty Experience!

(6 Month Fix Term Contract)

A leading beauty brand is on the hunt for an experienced, conceptually strong Art Director to bring big ideas and bold visuals to life. From campaigns to socials to eCommerce, you’ll be shaping the creative look and feel across every touchpoint

Art Director

Do you have proven experience leading art direction and visual development for photography and branded assets across multiple channels?

Can you concept, plan, and execute high-impact photo shoots, ensuring creative vision is delivered to the highest standard?

Are you able to collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain brand consistency and drive visual storytelling across packaging, ecommerce, and digital marketing?

MacGregor Black are partnering with a global market leading Consumer Electronic brand, on the search for a Art Director . This is a full-time contract position which is hybrid, based in London.

As Art Director you will be responsible for branding, packaging, and ecommerce — someone who not only knows how to bring a brand to life visually but also understands how that brand needs to be perceived across physical and digital touchpoints. In this mid–senior level role, you’ll own the visual development of branded assets, with a particular focus on art direction for photo shoots (especially food or product-centric), as well as the creation of high-impact imagery for use across packaging, ecommerce, and digital marketing.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the visual development and art direction for product photography, lifestyle shoots, and branded assets across all channels
• Concept, plan, and execute photo shoots from idea to on-set direction and final asset delivery
• Collaborate closely with photographers and stylists to ensure the creative vision is executed to the highest standard
• Partner with packaging, digital, and marketing teams to align imagery with broader brand and business goals
• Maintain and evolve brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all content and channels
• Contribute to ideation and visual storytelling for new product launches, campaigns, and initiatives

What are we looking for?

• 5–8+ years of experience in art direction, brand design, or visual content creation
• Proven experience art directing photo shoots, with strong preference for food, lifestyle, or product photography
• Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in branding, visual storytelling, and photography-driven design
• Ability to develop and communicate clear creative direction to photographers, stylists, and creative teams
• Deep appreciation for craft, lighting, composition, and the details that elevate an image
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with cross-functional partners
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) and Figma or equivalent tools
• Experience with asset organization, usage rights, and creative production workflows is a plus

Competitive salary + benefits.

Please contact Lewis Millican for further information.

*This role is based primarilly in our Manchester studio, however you will also be required to travel frequently to our Leeds studio.*

Applicants should attach their CV to the application along with a link to their portfolio or website if they have one.

Overall job purpose

Developing and delivering the artistic direction and visual identity of marketing and photography campaigns within the FMCG sector, with specific focus in food and drink . The ideal candidate will have experience in blending strategic thinking, conceptual creativity, and art direction to produce outstanding work that exceeds client expectations.

MAIN DUTIES

Working closely with the Creative Directors and wider creative team, the main duties include – but not limited to:

1. Conceptualisation and ideation - Lead brainstorming sessions and collaborate with creative teams to generate innovative ideas.
2. Develop visual approaches and styles across a range of different category-leading clients.
3. Ensure that creative concepts align with brand guidelines and channel best practices as well as resonate with the target audience.
4. Provide strategic guidance and creative direction throughout the project lifecycle.
5. Serve as a key client-facing representative, presenting creative concepts and strategies to clients and effectively articulating the rationale behind creative decisions.
6. Art directing photography and video shoots (a mix of high-fi and low fi formats) for media including OOH, Print, Social etc.
7. On set art direction, executing the deliverables in line with creative concept.
8. Collaborate closely with account management, content and creative production to understand client objectives and develop creative solutions that align with their goals.
9. Provide creative guidance to internal team members.
10. Help maintain, preserve, and progress the STM GRP brand and our image both internally and externally.
11. Ensure all work is carried out on time and in accordance with the requirements of the brief.

FLEXIBILITY

1. Flexible attitude with regards to normal hours of work when heavy workload dictates.
2. Cover the essential duties of the team during periods of absence and holidays.
3. Take responsibility for workload priorities when faced with a heavy workload.

TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

1. Participate in the Company’s appraisal process.
2. Carry out training and development of others as and when required.
3. Identify your own (and your team’s) training needs and discuss these with your Line Manager.
4. Undertake any necessary training and development which leads to increased knowledge and skill, as agreed with your Line Manager

Qualifications, skills and experience

2-3 years+ agency experience, ideally in the FMCG sector.

Experience art directing food and drink photography and videography shoots.

Confident in Powerpoint / Keynote / InDesign

Knowledge and understanding of photographic and retouch processes to create the perfect output.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail and quality.

Willing to travel, if shooting on location.

Our values

Perpetual thinking represents the collective talent across our centres of excellence, who are all united by their shared mindset. It drives us to look beyond the obvious. To analyse, strategize, and go further for our clients. It invites commercial creativity. It achieves greater results, faster. It wins customers and awards.

• With Curiosity
• With Agility
• With A Smile