31 January 2025

SOCIO is looking for a Design Director to lead brand projects, nurture a talented design team, and deliver exceptional and inspiring creative outcomes for clients.

Working closely with the Creative Directors and your team, you will shape the vision of the work the studio creates and ensure quality and creative ambition is met for each project.

As a Design Director, you’ll naturally have an incredible eye for detail, vast technical knowledge and inspire the team with your strategic and conceptual thinking. You’ll have a deep passion for design, typography, art direction and broader culture.

Responsibilities

Project Leadership

• Oversee design projects from conception to completion, ensuring high-quality outcomes
• Coordinate and work closely with your team of designers to deliver exceptional work within the allocated timelines
• Provide guidance to your team and confidently edit and curate the team’s work and your own
• Translate strategic principles into effective and innovative design solutions appropriate for the client
• Ability to direct and oversee multiple creative projects simultaneously

Design Execution

• Personally contribute to your team’s design work
• Work on smaller scale brand projects autonomously when necessary, across strategic thinking, design and delivery
• Craft compelling presentations with a clear narrative, connecting strategic insights to creative outcomes
• Champion a passion for typography, photography, and culture within the team
• Be a wealth of design knowledge and have an eye for detail across all aspects of the design process
• Contribute to the delivery of case studies for the studio’s project work

Client Engagement

• Present creative ideas confidently to clients, ranging from small to large groups of people
• Articulate the value and strategic intent behind designs, encouraging clients to make creative leaps
• Establish strong client relationships through building rapport, excellent communication and inspiring them with the creative vision

Team Development

• Mentor and develop the skills of other designers, fostering growth and creativity
• Cultivate an environment that encourages collaboration and maximises the team’s creative potential

Operational Oversight

• Collaborate with project managers to allocate resource on your projects, ensuring timelines, budgets, and project milestones are met
• Maintain a balance between creative ambition and practical project requirements

Key requirements

• 7+ years design experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire and manage design teams
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design tasks and sell ideas both internally and externally
• Proven experience working directly on brand-focused design projects and further deliverables such as packaging and digital design
• A deep passion for typography, photography, fashion and cultural trends
• Experience in translating strategic insights into impactful design solutions