25 Art Director jobs in London

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.

We are delighted to be partnering with a fantastic on-line beauty brand, working with the Creative Director and Creative Lead, both exceptionally talented and well-respected in the creative industry.

We are looking for an Art Director with experience in-house at a beauty brand (non-negotiable), someone who can hit the ground running. The main focus will be on ecomms and web assets. You understand the beauty industry and the products, the textures and the lifecycle /process and how to shoot. You must be au-fait with beauty still life as well as model shoots across 360 campaigns. Experience in both still and moving image is essential. A self shooter, who can help develop assets with the social team, would be an added bonus.

You will be part of the creative/ideas process, bringing ideas to the table, as well as involved in the hands-on doing part of the process and developing/bringing ideas to life.

Whilst we are not looking for high st or traditional folios, an understanding of commerciality is essential, but even more pivotal is an eye for progressive luxury, and the ability to find the sweet spot between the two. We are looking for both quality and concepts; a clear demonstration of creative talent on shoots; not supporting a third party AD, someone with proven experience developing creative ideas; a socially aligned portfolio, interesting concepts and well art directed projects, commercially or editorially. Think Burberry Beauty, Victoria Beckham, Refy, or a similar brand with really slick output.

There is a need to be highly organised and multi-task across all channels; working across multiple projects simultaneously. You can accommodate budgets of any size, get into the weeds, be comfortable working with an inhouse team and photography studio.

Due to predicted high volumes, unfortunately only sucessful applcations will receive a response.

For the quickest traction, please share your beauty art direction folio + CV or Li link directly to quoting your full name and B1143 in the subject line.