80 Senior Art Directors 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.

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

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

At Universal Creative, we design, develop and deliver the most compelling entertainment experiences imaginable to drive growth for Universal Parks & Resorts worldwide. Our innovative attractions, immersive theme parks and world-class resorts fuse art and technology to create new standards in the themed entertainment industry.

Our team members are the driving force behind Universal Creative. With their diverse skills and forward-thinking ideas, our team pushes us beyond the boundaries of what's possible to achieve the extraordinary. Together, we're creating a Universe of fun, always ensuring the next thing we do is better than the last thing we did.

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

The Art Director is responsible to:

• Establish and direct the overall visual appearance of all elements of an assigned project.
• Ensure the project's "story" and creative intent is conveyed visually to successfully create the desired guest experience.
• Direct all visual elements and artistic style of the project.
• Create, develop and direct art, and design to establish and unify the creative vision.
• Translate desired moods, messages, concepts and ideas into imagery.
• Solidifying the vision, resolving conflicting and inconsistent design.
• Collaborates with the Creative Director, Show Producer and project team to develop and direct creative design intent to meet project creative, business, technical, and operational objectives.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develops visual design direction and defines design elements of the assigned project that affect the guest experience. This may be accomplished with many different methods, including, but not limited to, creating sketches, illustrations, models, composite imagery and image research documentation. Supervise others to develop those design ideas.
• Oversees and directs design, fabrication and installation of all on-stage project elements to ensure the creative intent is achieved as envisioned by the Creative Director. Project elements such as – architecture, scenic art, scenery, props, animation, show action, special fx, and lighting.
• Collaborates with internal talent and external vendors to execute the desired vision. Directs art related vendors and any scenic scope that requires art direction.
• In collaboration with the Creative Director, act as design "vision-keeper" for the project, maintaining a cohesive design in all elements associated with the project through all phases of design and development.
• Creates and presents project materials to internal and external audiences to communicate project concept, content and status.
• Works with the Show Producer to identify and procure talent and resources necessary to complete the project.
• Acts as project liaison with internal and external partners, licensors, and intellectual property developers as needed.
• Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UDX policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to communicate complex artistic ideas through a combination of written and visual and materials required. Must have in depth knowledge of color theory, art history, scenic painting techniques, sculpture, architecture, perspective, theatrical lighting techniques and storytelling.
• Technical school is preferred. Associate degree (AA) in Theater, Art, Film, or Architecture is required. Bachelor's degree in Theater, Art, Film, or Architecture is required. Master's degree in Theater, Art, Film, or Architecture is preferred.
• Production design and field experience based on Universal Creative standards. Designing experience based entertainment for world-class theme parks or related industries; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

SCOPE: Non-routine; general policies applied to frequently changing situations. Responsible for directing teams of creative project personnel such as writers, artists, directors, scenic designers, programmers, graphic designers, etc. Influences decisions of significant nature requiring high degree of tact.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to

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

We are looking for a creative thinker with a passion for creating, developing and delivering award winning solutions for existing and prospective clients. Working as part of the Creative team, the role mixes creative flair, technical know-how and commercial awareness to create stand out consumer experiences in the digital and retail space.

Who are N2O?

N2O is an award-winning creative brand experience agency and part of GLOBE GROUPE, the leading European shopper house dedicated to brand marketing. We create physical and digital events that make fans for brands, wherever they are. Working in partnership with our clients, we use insight-led creative and brand experiences to engage with the right people and change what they think, feel and do. We apply 20 years of marketing experience to successfully deliver our clients’ requirements, across sectors including FMCG, health and beauty, luxury goods, retail and technology. Our clients include household names such as Tesco, Coca-Cola and Superdrug.

What you will be doing

• Supporting the Creative Director in ideating, developing, designing, and delivering creative solutions for our clients.
• Taking the lead on projects, working closely with other departments and senior managers to achieve commercial and creative objectives.
• Keeping internal departments and clients updated with progress.
• Supporting new business pitches, producing outstanding creative concepts that inspire and procure new clients.
• Enriching N2O’s capability of delivering creative solutions in the digital space.
• Sharing your knowledge around digital and experiential with the team to inspire them to want to learn more.

Requirements

• Around 3 years’ experience in a similar role within a digital / physical FMCG focussed agency.
• Strong personal leadership qualities including openness to learn, collaborate, inspire and innovate.
• Be fluent in In-design, illustrator and other Creative Suite programmes.
• Ability to blend commercial awareness with passion and creative flair.
• Instinctive brand awareness and demonstrated experience of pushing boundaries and evolving brands
• Eligible to live and work in the UK
• Able to attend our Maidenhead office three times a week
  

Benefits

• Salary £32k to £36k gross per annum depending on experience
• Maidenhead office based but some flexibility to work from home
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays plus flex buy/ sell holiday scheme
• Life assurance
• Retail discounts scheme
• Employee Assist Programme
• Season ticket loan
• Head office location has multiple perks including on site gym, free breakfasts, and onsite cafe

WE NEED A MID/SENIOR ART DIRECTOR

Hello, we're Tonic. A global employer brand and experience agency based in London, working hybrid and delivering for clients all around the world. As we write this we're working across Europe, Scandinavia, The USA, India, China, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa, and the UK (and that's not everywhere). Last count we'd worked on the ground in around 57 countries.

What we do is build talent brands people want to work for, and we're good at it. We're trusted to work across many sectors like Pharma, retail, hospitality, travel, professional services, military, entertainment, and technology. Creating great employer brands, EVPs, internal and external campaigns for experienced hire and early talent. Building great creative work that works because it's backed by awesome insight, excellent activation and perfect project management. We've won 157 awards in our 13 year history, along with 10 Grand Prix and we've been agency of the year 4 times. 

Now, you can't be a great integrated agency without great creative. It's why we're enhancing our team, and this is where you come in. As our New Art Director . A critical role. Reporting into Mark, our Chief Creative Officer and Founder, you’ll know how to build, develop and evolve our creative excellence. Working as one with the insight, strategy & social teams, you'll have huge opportunities to develop employer brands, campaigns and content for some of the world’s biggest brands.

Before we tell you what you'll be doing, let's start with what you get:

• Autonomy - lots of it! You’ll be trusted to work with some of the world's best known brands
• Responsibility - grow the team, the capability. Stay on trend and be in front of it
• Culture - A great work environment surrounded by some of the best minds in the industry
• Growth - The opportunity to grow your career in a supportive environment
• Place - A great office in Central London (just by London Bridge Station) for when you want to come in
• Learning - 6 learning days a year with a £300 budget to learn something new
• Flexibility - It's not where you work it's how. We want you to do your best work
• Benefits - 25 days leave, your birthday off, no one likes to work on their birthday
• Wellness - 4 wellness days a year. No email, no work chat, just you and the sound of wind chimes or anything else that makes you feel good.
• Salary - It's a good one, but depends on your experience

This is what you'll be doing:

• Work and own the creative relationship with our clients across employer brand, recruitment marketing, and employee advocacy
• Build on our creative track record
• Work with the wider team to develop inspiring & exciting creative work
• Create the kind of work you'd show your mum
• Love our clients. After all, you'll be seeing a lot of them
• WIN AWARDS - and lots of them

And this is what we're looking for:

• Someone who knows a great idea 
• Someone who never lets go of a great idea
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Ability to translate creative briefs into outstanding creative executions
• A clear understanding and experience in Employer Brand development

• So there you have it. If you want to join us as an Art Director, speak to Mark. Start talking about Motorbikes, bad golf and sharks, and you'll have him hooked (pun intended).