Location
London

Hours
Hybrid (3 days in the studio, 2 days from home)

Salary
Up to £85,000, dependent on experience

About the Studio
This London-based creative studio partners with remarkable brands, delivering work that spans campaigns, product launches, brand experiences, and spatial environments. The studio is known for thoughtful ideas, strong execution, and a genuinely multidisciplinary approach, with a 3D and spatial team experienced in realising ambitious ideas in the real world. The founders are now investing in the 2D side of the offering—brand, campaign, and environmental graphics—to give the studio's brand thinking the same depth and reputation as its physical space work. This is a growing discipline with strong commercial foundations and work already pipelined to support it.

About the Role
This is not a turnaround role; the foundations are already in place. The opportunity is to elevate and build the 2D and brand offering into a defining part of the studio's identity. As 2D Design Director, you will lead brand, campaign, and environmental graphics work, bringing cohesion to how ideas are developed and expressed across campaigns, environments, content, and experiences. You will strengthen the brand thinking underpinning the work, ensuring projects feel connected, distinctive, and strategically considered from concept through to final installation. Working closely with the 3D team, you will develop ideas together so that graphics, identity, and physical space are conceived as one brand experience. You will also collaborate with the founders to shape and build the team, influencing hiring, structure, and creative growth. Early focus includes understanding culture, building relationships, and clarifying processes. Over time, you will become a key voice in defining the studio's next chapter.

Your days will look something like this...
Lead creative thinking across brand, brand experience, campaign, environmental graphics, and experiential projects
Develop and refine concepts that translate consistently across multiple channels and touchpoints, from campaign assets through to applied graphics in physical space
Direct environmental graphics and applied branding, including wayfinding, signage, super-graphics, and retail and exhibition environments
Partner closely with the 3D team from concept stage, so brand and space are developed together as a single idea
Hold the creative thread across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring clarity and cohesion throughout
Work with the founders to build and shape the 2D team, contributing to hiring, structure, and discipline development
Mentor, develop, and inspire a multidisciplinary team of designers and creatives
Deliver constructive creative direction, feedback, and critique that improves both the work and the people producing it
Collaborate with project teams to scope briefs, manage timelines, and balance creative ambition with commercial realities
Present work directly to clients, building trusted relationships and navigating feedback with confidence
Contribute to the long-term evolution of the studio's creative output, standards, and ways of working

Why this role?
A senior creative leadership position with genuine influence over the studio's future direction
The chance to build and define the studio's 2D, brand, and environmental graphics offering with founder-level backing
Work already pipelined, building on live momentum rather than waiting for new briefs
A close partnership with an established 3D team and the opportunity to see brand thinking realised at full scale
Direct access to the founders with real input on hiring and team growth
Diverse work spanning campaigns, product launches, experiences, environments, and brand communications
A collaborative culture valuing creative thinking and leadership autonomy
Strong commercial backing and clear commitment to investing in the creative function
Hybrid working balancing collaborative studio time and focused independent work

Experience
Significant experience leading creative teams across brand, campaign, environmental graphics, experiential, or spatial projects
A portfolio demonstrating strong strategic thinking and outstanding creative execution, showing brand ideas realised in physical environments and campaign work
Understanding of how brand ideas translate across physical, digital, and experiential channels, including architectural scale
Experience collaborating with 3D, spatial, or interior designers, comfortable with materials, scale, and production realities as well as artwork
Experience managing creative teams, mentoring designers, and raising standards through leadership

About You
Interested in building a discipline, not just running projects, and eager to shape a team alongside founders
Confident presenting to clients and managing senior stakeholder relationships
Able to balance creative ambition with commercial realities, budgets, timelines, and delivery requirements
Enjoy connecting ideas across disciplines rather than operating within a single specialism
Motivated by making good work even better rather than fixing broken environments

Qualifications
Not specifically stated, but a strong portfolio and leadership experience are essential