Design Lead – Richmond, London/ Hybrid

We’re now looking for a talented and ambitious Design Lead to join our brilliant, multidisciplinary design team, helping craft everything from beautiful visual identities and new sites to campaigns and general marketing content. You’ll be focussed on inspiring the teams around you through creative excellence and impressively executed work.

As a Velocity Design Lead, you will:

Work with our Associate Creative Director and the senior design team, as one of the go-to people for all branding projects
Lead technically and conceptually by example, crafting beautiful visual identities and campaigns for some of the world’s best tech companies
Collaborate with our account, writing, performance and developer teams to turn briefs into breakthrough work
Create and deliver world-class design that works across all digital channels
Have a significant voice in helping shape the process and best practice for all branding and digital outputs
Attract, motivate, inspire and help develop the design team by having one eye on design trends and innovations
Do the design work at key moments on key projects, often working with and presenting to our clients
Work with project management and operations teams to guide resourcing, ensuring we’re working as smartly and efficiency as possible.
Take part in bi-weekly digital design meetings, aimed at sharing and advancing our design skills, particularly in digital fields

What we’d like you to bring to Velocity:

3-5 years minimum as a strong midweight or senior designer within an agency environment (B2C or B2B)
Plenty of imagination, creativity and craft and adept in design process and methodology
A folio that boasts beautifully executed work born from inspiring ideas and clever solutions to interesting creative challenges
A positive, passionate design advocate and evangelist
Strong presentation skills and the ability to talk through conceptual work passionately and articulately
Alongside creating identities and building brands, you’ll feel comfortable working on site builds and interactive content
Strong cultural awareness, ideally having produced content for social media
Proficiency in Figma, Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD)
Familiarity with industry standard UX and UI design
Motion familiarity not essential, but beneficial

And in return, Velocity offers:

A great company culture well set up for hybrid working
25 holiday days pro rata
Additional time off between
Christmas and New Year
Switchable Public Holidays
Pension: 5% employer contribution on qualifying earnings (after first
3 months)
A focus on personal development, also with training time and budget
Lots of social stuff and ‘organised’ fun, both company wide and driven by interest/ hobby groups
Volunteer/ Community day
Life Insurance
Salary dependent on experience

If this sounds like you, send your CV over to [email protected].

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.