556 Design Director jobs in the United Kingdom

SGK and SGS & Co have built an impressive roster in creative, strategy, digital commerce, experiential marketing, engineering, and creative content production—bringing together the incredible talent of 2,300 agency professionals. This collective expertise will come together under Marks, a Next-Gen Creative Platform built to thrive in today's global and local cultural conversations. Equator will continue to play an important role as an agency within Marks.

We are looking for a Design Director to join the team on a 12 month contract. Partnering with Client Services, this role will own the creative client relationships and quality of design across brands and/or accounts, ensuring we deliver the best against each brief. Using strong judgement and analytical skills to drive better design and deliver beyond the client expectation

Responsibilities:

• Building strong client relationships, acting as their brand custodian. Using understanding of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands to add provocation and richness.
• Leading by example, guiding and inspiring your team to produce exceptional, insightful work that fully explores, challenges and goes beyond the brief. Knowing the power of sketching.
• Approving work before client submission, maintaining our quality of output.
• Acting as the design consultant to your Client Service partners, aligning briefs to the client and brand needs, adding richness and insight to enable design to go deeper, stronger.
• Maximising our resources, managing your team’s workflow to deliver efficiently, adapting the plan when things change in partnership with Resource Management.

Skills/Experience:

• Strong knowledge of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands and the
• world they inhabit
• 8-12 years experience within a Brand/Packaging Design agency in Design roles
• Shopper/retail experience
• Understanding of design systems within retail envrionment
• Stakeholder management skills
• Exceptional print / material knowledge
• Cross-team management, ability to identify and leverage skills across the network
• Agility, read the room and adapt
• A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration or related fielddobe CC, Office, Sketching

Propelis, is a go-to-market ecosystem that enables marketers to move their brands forward with greater speed, clarity, and confidence. Our broad range of integrated solutions include brand creative, packaging, print solutions, branded environments, and content production. Services are delivered through our family of brands: SGX, Marks, Equator, Collide, and 5Flow. With a combined legacy spanning more than 150 years, Propelis commences operations with 10,000 employees in 30+ countries, nearly $1 billion in annual sales, and a diverse client base of over 2,000 leading companies.

Design Director (Consumer Packaging and more)

£65,000 to £80,000

Hybrid working (3 days in the office, Central London)

We’re working with a very well-known branding agency in Central London, part of a global communications group, to find a Design Director who brings both creative vision and strategic depth. This is an opportunity to lead and inspire a talented team, shaping work for some of the world’s most recognisable consumer brands.

In this role you will be both a leader and a creator; guiding the strategic and creative direction of projects while staying close to the craft. You will challenge convention, spark innovation and lead by example, ensuring that every piece of work pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in consumer branding and packaging.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading the creative direction on major branding and packaging projects, from concept to delivery
• Championing design excellence across every touchpoint, ensuring work is strategically sound and beautifully executed
• Building trusted relationships with clients, understanding their brands, their challenges and their ambitions
• Collaborating closely with Creative Directors, Strategists and Client Services to deliver world-class creative solutions
• Mentoring, inspiring and developing designers at all levels, creating a culture of creativity, curiosity and excellence
• Presenting ideas with confidence and clarity, ensuring great work is sold as effectively as it’s created
• Keeping your finger on the pulse of cultural and design trends, bringing fresh insights that move brands forward
• Helping identify new opportunities for both clients and the agency, contributing to growth and innovation

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience leading creative teams within a top-tier branding or design agency
• Proven ability to shape and deliver strategic, design-led brand and packaging solutions for well-known consumer brands
• Excellent communication skills, with a natural talent for storytelling and presenting ideas
• A collaborative and empathetic leadership style that inspires trust and drives performance
• The ability to stay calm under pressure, balancing creative ambition with commercial awareness
• A genuine passion for building brands that make an impact and stand the test of time
• If you’re a design leader who loves big ideas, believes in the power of great branding and thrives in a collaborative, creative environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Why you'll apply

Our client offers a range of benefits to boost lifestyle, health and your future which include health & dental, life assurance, pension, travel insurance, mental health services and flexible holidays.

But more than that they'll give you the chance to work across major brands, produce the best work of your career and future proof your career with group-wide opportunities in one of the world's best-known networks.

This role is the real deal. If you are a brand maven looking for a bright spotlight then please get in touch.

Design Director (Consumer Packaging and more)

£65,000 to £80,000

Hybrid working (3 days in the office, Central London)

We’re working with a very well-known branding agency in Central London, part of a global communications group, to find a Design Director who brings both creative vision and strategic depth. This is an opportunity to lead and inspire a talented team, shaping work for some of the world’s most recognisable consumer brands.

In this role you will be both a leader and a creator; guiding the strategic and creative direction of projects while staying close to the craft. You will challenge convention, spark innovation and lead by example, ensuring that every piece of work pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in consumer branding and packaging.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading the creative direction on major branding and packaging projects, from concept to delivery
• Championing design excellence across every touchpoint, ensuring work is strategically sound and beautifully executed
• Building trusted relationships with clients, understanding their brands, their challenges and their ambitions
• Collaborating closely with Creative Directors, Strategists and Client Services to deliver world-class creative solutions
• Mentoring, inspiring and developing designers at all levels, creating a culture of creativity, curiosity and excellence
• Presenting ideas with confidence and clarity, ensuring great work is sold as effectively as it’s created
• Keeping your finger on the pulse of cultural and design trends, bringing fresh insights that move brands forward
• Helping identify new opportunities for both clients and the agency, contributing to growth and innovation

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience leading creative teams within a top-tier branding or design agency
• Proven ability to shape and deliver strategic, design-led brand and packaging solutions for well-known consumer brands
• Excellent communication skills, with a natural talent for storytelling and presenting ideas
• A collaborative and empathetic leadership style that inspires trust and drives performance
• The ability to stay calm under pressure, balancing creative ambition with commercial awareness
• A genuine passion for building brands that make an impact and stand the test of time
• If you’re a design leader who loves big ideas, believes in the power of great branding and thrives in a collaborative, creative environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Why you'll apply

Our client offers a range of benefits to boost lifestyle, health and your future which include health & dental, life assurance, pension, travel insurance, mental health services and flexible holidays.

But more than that they'll give you the chance to work across major brands, produce the best work of your career and future proof your career with group-wide opportunities in one of the world's best-known networks.

This role is the real deal. If you are a brand maven looking for a bright spotlight then please get in touch.

This is not just another design role. Celebrating artistry, culture, and craftsmanship through timeless design.

This is your opportunity to shape the creative future of a globally celebrated brand at the intersection of Luxury design, fashion, art, and culture.

At
David Harber
, we create award-winning, hand-crafted sculptures that redefine luxury spaces around the world – from Windsor Castle to New York rooftops, from Chelsea Flower Show gardens to private collections across Asia, Europe, and the USA.

As our Design Director, you'll be more than a designer. You'll be a visionary leader, and global ambassador – guiding the creative direction of our New, Bespoke, and Classic collections while inspiring a talented team and captivating international audiences with your design voice .

The Role at a Glance:

Design Director

Didcot, Oxfordshire HQ (Hybrid – 3 days per week in office) + Travel Minimum 6 times per year, representing the brand globally

Competitive salary (based on expertise) + bonus, private healthcare with Vitality, pension, 25 days holiday rising to 28 employer, pension contribution, birthday leave, employee assistance programme.

Product: Multi-award-winning, internationally renowned designers of luxurious, hand-crafted sculptures

Clients: High Net Worth Individuals. Landscape and Garden Designers, Property Developers, Architects and Art

Work Destined for: Public Spaces, Luxury Developments, Hotels and Private Gardens

Pedigree: London Design Awards 2022 twice Recipient of 'The Queen's Award for International Trade. Design and Decoration Award, 7 times winner of the Chelsea Flower Show Tradestand Trophy.

Highlights: Three sundials unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and one by King Charles.

Your Skills: Visionary designer, product innovation, Excellent public speaker, Strong client engagement and networking skills, as well as leadership skills.

Your background: Luxury Product Design, 3D, Conceptual Design, Luxury Sculptures, Art, Jewellery, Fashion, Furniture, Interior Architecture.

Welcome to David Harber

David Harber Ltd are multi-award-winning, internationally renowned designers of luxurious, hand-crafted sculptures, whose works have graced some of the world's most prestigious addresses - from British institutions such as Windsor Castle and Eton to destinations further afield in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the USA.

Every sculpture, sundial or water feature is crafted by hand on site in rural Oxfordshire. As a family-owned business, we are a small but established team, where every individual plays their part offering the very best service to its highly affluent audience of private customers, interior and garden designers, art consultants and property developers.

Where you'll shine:

As a visionary designer with artistic passion, you will lead the creation and evolution of David Harber's New, Bespoke, and Classic products while serving as a confident spokesperson for the brand. You will own the full design process: from research and ideation to concept and innovation - translating David Harber's creative direction into elegant, commercially successful products that honour the founder's legacy.

With strong design fundamentals and an eye for beauty, you will inspire both your team and the wider business. Leading and developing the creative team, you will foster curiosity, push boundaries, and unlock new potential. Collaborating closely with Engineering, Operations, and Marketing, you will energise stakeholders and drive exceptional results across the company.

Externally, you will act as a figurehead for the brand, representing David Harber within the global landscape and interior design community. An excellent orator, storyteller, and natural networker, you will forge strong relationships across the luxury design world in the UK and abroad. A willingness to travel frequently is essential as you champion the brand on an international stage.

What you'll shape:

As Design Director, you will be the driving force behind David Harber's creative vision - shaping new concepts into elegant, commercially successful products while keeping our Classic range fresh and vital. You'll transform client briefs into inspiring bespoke proposals, experiment boldly with materials and finishes, and lead multiple projects from sketch to proposal with precision and flair.

Beyond the studio, you'll be a global ambassador for the brand, representing David Harber at high-profile UK and international design events, leading thought-provoking CPDs, and building influential networks across the design world. You'll work closely with consultants and clients worldwide, bringing ideas to life in the most prestigious spaces.

At the heart of the role is leadership. You will inspire and mentor a talented creative team, setting the standard for design excellence while fostering innovation and curiosity. With a strong strategic vision, you'll collaborate with senior leaders to guide the business forward, and with exceptional communication you'll unite teams, stakeholders, and clients around bold ideas and shared success.

About You:

You'll bring a degree in visual or product design (or equivalent experience) and extensive senior-level expertise, ideally within the luxury sector. With a strong grasp of historical, classical, and contemporary design, and an eye on current trends, you'll balance creativity with commercial awareness. Confident in face-to-face client interactions, you'll translate complex briefs into elegant solutions while inspiring trust and collaboration. Exceptional communication and networking skills are essential, alongside proven experience leading, motivating, and developing a creative team. Above all, you'll bring a positive, open approach and the ability to inspire clients, colleagues, and stakeholders alike.

Alter your world. Transform your space.

At David Harber, every piece is made of mystery, beauty, and great British craftsmanship to shift perceptions and change the world around you, as if by magic. Now, we're looking for a Design Director who can bring that same transformative energy to our creative future.

If you're ready to inspire, innovate, and lead at the very pinnacle of design, we want to hear from you.

Apply today with your CV, covering letter, and portfolio - and take your place in a leadership role at the heart of the brand.

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About SRVC

SRVC is a London-based womenswear brand defined by strong silhouettes, directional design, and a balance of innovation with wearability. The brand has established an international presence and continues to grow across key global markets. We are seeking a Design Director / Head of Design to take a central role in driving the development of our collections and leading the design team.

Role Overview

The Design Director / Head of Design will oversee the entire design process, from research and concept development through to final collections. This role requires someone with deep fashion knowledge, strong industry awareness, and an instinctive understanding of SRVC's identity and aesthetic. The successful candidate will be able to translate cultural and creative references into distinctive pieces that resonate with buyers, press, and customers. They will lead and mentor the design team, ensure the brand identity is expressed consistently across collections, and work closely with production, sales, and marketing to deliver collections that are both creatively strong and commercially successful.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the design and development of all seasonal collections.
• Lead and mentor the design team, ensuring output is innovative, relevant, and delivered to deadlines.
• Direct research into fabrics, silhouettes, techniques, and references to inform collections.
• Guide sketching, fittings, and development of key pieces through to final samples.
• Work closely with product development, production, and suppliers to ensure quality and design integrity are maintained.
• Ensure collections are creatively distinctive while appealing commercially to buyers and aligning with showroom requirements.
• Manage design timelines to align with the critical path for showroom, sales, and production deadlines.
• Stay connected to the wider fashion landscape, including cultural movements and competitor activity.
• Represent SRVC within the industry and through networks that strengthen the brand's positioning.

Key Skills & Experience

• 8–10+ years of womenswear design experience, with proven leadership in a senior role.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating innovative, wearable design and successful collection development.
• Excellent knowledge of garment construction, fabrics, and development processes. Strong leadership and ability to build and inspire a team.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and confident working to deadlines across seasonal calendars.
• Commercial awareness and experience in developing collections that perform with buyers and within showroom environments.
• Strong industry presence and ability to maintain valuable professional relationships.
• A natural affinity with SRVC's style and brand identity, with the ability to evolve it while keeping its core aesthetic intact.

What We Offer

• A senior leadership role at a fast-growing London-based womenswear brand.
• A collaborative and ambitious studio environment.
• The opportunity to shape and influence the development of SRVC at an exciting stage of growth.
• Salary based on qualification and previous experience

Design Director

Are you an experienced Building Services design engineer looking for further resonsiblity to run your own design department? A very attractive opportunity has become available for a growing MEP contractor.

Anderselite have worked with this client since the early stages of their growth, this is a pivotal role for the next phase of their expansion plans. The opportunity is a real.

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SGK and SGS & Co have built an impressive roster in creative, strategy, digital commerce, experiential marketing, engineering, and creative content production—bringing together the incredible talent of 2,300 agency professionals. This collective expertise will come together under Marks, a Next-Gen Creative Platform built to thrive in today's global and local cultural conversations. Equator will continue to play an important role as an agency within Marks.

We are looking for a Design Director to join the team on a 12 month contract. Partnering with Client Services, this role will own the creative client relationships and quality of design across brands and/or accounts, ensuring we deliver the best against each brief. Using strong judgement and analytical skills to drive better design and deliver beyond the client expectation

Responsibilities:

• Building strong client relationships, acting as their brand custodian. Using understanding of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands to add provocation and richness.
• Leading by example, guiding and inspiring your team to produce exceptional, insightful work that fully explores, challenges and goes beyond the brief. Knowing the power of sketching.
• Approving work before client submission, maintaining our quality of output.
• Acting as the design consultant to your Client Service partners, aligning briefs to the client and brand needs, adding richness and insight to enable design to go deeper, stronger.
• Maximising our resources, managing your team’s workflow to deliver efficiently, adapting the plan when things change in partnership with Resource Management.

Skills/Experience:

• Strong knowledge of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands and the
• world they inhabit
• 8-12 years experience within a Brand/Packaging Design agency in Design roles
• Shopper/retail experience
• Understanding of design systems within retail envrionment
• Stakeholder management skills
• Exceptional print / material knowledge
• Cross-team management, ability to identify and leverage skills across the network
• Agility, read the room and adapt
• A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration or related fielddobe CC, Office, Sketching

Propelis, is a go-to-market ecosystem that enables marketers to move their brands forward with greater speed, clarity, and confidence. Our broad range of integrated solutions include brand creative, packaging, print solutions, branded environments, and content production. Services are delivered through our family of brands: SGX, Marks, Equator, Collide, and 5Flow. With a combined legacy spanning more than 150 years, Propelis commences operations with 10,000 employees in 30+ countries, nearly $1 billion in annual sales, and a diverse client base of over 2,000 leading companies.

SGK and SGS & Co have built an impressive roster in creative, strategy, digital commerce, experiential marketing, engineering, and creative content production—bringing together the incredible talent of 2,300 agency professionals. This collective expertise will come together under Marks, a Next-Gen Creative Platform built to thrive in today's global and local cultural conversations. Equator will continue to play an important role as an agency within Marks.

We are looking for a Design Director to join the team on a 12 month contract. Partnering with Client Services, this role will own the creative client relationships and quality of design across brands and/or accounts, ensuring we deliver the best against each brief. Using strong judgement and analytical skills to drive better design and deliver beyond the client expectation

Responsibilities:

• Building strong client relationships, acting as their brand custodian. Using understanding of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands to add provocation and richness.
• Leading by example, guiding and inspiring your team to produce exceptional, insightful work that fully explores, challenges and goes beyond the brief. Knowing the power of sketching.
• Approving work before client submission, maintaining our quality of output.
• Acting as the design consultant to your Client Service partners, aligning briefs to the client and brand needs, adding richness and insight to enable design to go deeper, stronger.
• Maximising our resources, managing your team’s workflow to deliver efficiently, adapting the plan when things change in partnership with Resource Management.

Skills/Experience:

• Strong knowledge of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands and the
• world they inhabit
• 8-12 years experience within a Brand/Packaging Design agency in Design roles
• Shopper/retail experience
• Understanding of design systems within retail envrionment
• Stakeholder management skills
• Exceptional print / material knowledge
• Cross-team management, ability to identify and leverage skills across the network
• Agility, read the room and adapt
• A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration or related fielddobe CC, Office, Sketching

Propelis, is a go-to-market ecosystem that enables marketers to move their brands forward with greater speed, clarity, and confidence. Our broad range of integrated solutions include brand creative, packaging, print solutions, branded environments, and content production. Services are delivered through our family of brands: SGX, Marks, Equator, Collide, and 5Flow. With a combined legacy spanning more than 150 years, Propelis commences operations with 10,000 employees in 30+ countries, nearly $1 billion in annual sales, and a diverse client base of over 2,000 leading companies.

Design Director (Consumer Packaging and more)

£65,000 to £80,000

Hybrid working (3 days in the office, Central London)

We’re working with a very well-known branding agency in Central London, part of a global communications group, to find a Design Director who brings both creative vision and strategic depth. This is an opportunity to lead and inspire a talented team, shaping work for some of the world’s most recognisable consumer brands.

In this role you will be both a leader and a creator; guiding the strategic and creative direction of projects while staying close to the craft. You will challenge convention, spark innovation and lead by example, ensuring that every piece of work pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in consumer branding and packaging.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading the creative direction on major branding and packaging projects, from concept to delivery
• Championing design excellence across every touchpoint, ensuring work is strategically sound and beautifully executed
• Building trusted relationships with clients, understanding their brands, their challenges and their ambitions
• Collaborating closely with Creative Directors, Strategists and Client Services to deliver world-class creative solutions
• Mentoring, inspiring and developing designers at all levels, creating a culture of creativity, curiosity and excellence
• Presenting ideas with confidence and clarity, ensuring great work is sold as effectively as it’s created
• Keeping your finger on the pulse of cultural and design trends, bringing fresh insights that move brands forward
• Helping identify new opportunities for both clients and the agency, contributing to growth and innovation

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience leading creative teams within a top-tier branding or design agency
• Proven ability to shape and deliver strategic, design-led brand and packaging solutions for well-known consumer brands
• Excellent communication skills, with a natural talent for storytelling and presenting ideas
• A collaborative and empathetic leadership style that inspires trust and drives performance
• The ability to stay calm under pressure, balancing creative ambition with commercial awareness
• A genuine passion for building brands that make an impact and stand the test of time
• If you’re a design leader who loves big ideas, believes in the power of great branding and thrives in a collaborative, creative environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Why you'll apply

Our client offers a range of benefits to boost lifestyle, health and your future which include health & dental, life assurance, pension, travel insurance, mental health services and flexible holidays.

But more than that they'll give you the chance to work across major brands, produce the best work of your career and future proof your career with group-wide opportunities in one of the world's best-known networks.

This role is the real deal. If you are a brand maven looking for a bright spotlight then please get in touch.