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Design Director

You’re a designer at the peak of your powers. You bring world-class craft, the judgment to know when a concept can drive a whole brand, and the conviction to bring everyone with you. Knowing that the strongest ideas emerge through collaboration. You’re a creative leader who elevates the work and the people around you.

About the role

You’ll be at the heart of the creative process. Setting direction, exploring possibilities, and creating the conditions for everyone around you to do the same. Bringing together strategists, writers, designers, creative technologists and client partners to create work that is stronger than the sum of its parts. You'll bring exceptional creative judgment, a strong point of view, and the conviction to push the work until it's truly great. From early strategic thinking through to final execution.

You’ll take ownership of the quality of the outcome across brand creation, rebrands and other creative challenges. Our work spans the digital and physical, and you’ll help teams create work that is both creatively ambitious and commercially effective across a wide range of applications.

You'll set the standard for creative ambition across the agency through your craft, your curiosity and your generosity. Inspiring clients and colleagues to be braver. And creating work that creates different realities.

Who we’re looking for

You’re actively seeking out new ideas, cultural influences, tools, and technologies. We don’t expect you to know everything, but we do expect a mindset that is curious, ambitious, collaborative, and unwilling to settle for average.

We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone can feel appreciated for who they are and supported in their personal and professional growth. We encourage applications from people who may not necessarily ‘fit’ the typical branding agency mould. We’re looking for creative people looking for something different, because we are too.

While we have a flexible approach to remote working, we have a studio-first culture. With everyone on the team spending a minimum of 24 hours (roughly 3 days) a week in the studio.

Salary

From £70k depending on experience

Benefits

As a Certified B Corp we put our people first. Working at Ragged Edge comes with a carefully considered range of benefits across 6 key areas:

Learning & Development

Including career coaching, personal training budgets and regular ‘Lunch & Learn’ sessions.

Health & Wellness

Including mental health support, private medical insurance and nutrition & wellness coaching.

Financial Wellbeing

Including in-house financial advisors, enhanced pension contributions and life insurance.

Work-Life Balance

Including hybrid working, 3-month sabbatical after 4 years, and an annual ‘My Day’ for giving back.

Family Support

Including enhanced maternity & paternity leave, enhanced fertility support and coaching for working parents.

Celebrating Together

Including summer and end-of-year parties, weekly team socials and inspirational field trips.

We want every person to feel as comfortable as possible in this process, so here’s a run-down of how it might look and feel. If there are any doubts you have or any adjustments you need, please just let us know. 

Step 1
Online submission

Start by introducing yourself and your experience, explaining why you want to join our team. Please include your CV, and, if you’re applying for a creative role, some examples of your work.

Join our team
Step 2
Getting to know you

If you’ve caught our attention, we’d love to jump on a call. This will be with a member of the People & Culture Team. A chance for us to get to know you better and understand what it is that excites you most.

Step 3
In-person interview

At this stage, you’ll meet with a relevant Team Head or Manager at our London studio. Giving you a feel for Ragged Edge in the flesh. Here we want to catch a glimpse of how you think and your approach to work, so please bring along some examples to speak through.

Step 4
Final creative share

Following a phone check-in and briefing, you’ll be invited back to our studio to present your creative share. This is an opportunity to take us deeper into your thought processes. As well as the successes and missteps that got you here. Collaboration is key, so we’ll invite 5 or 6 members of different teams to join you in the room too.

Hints for difference
Be authentically you

Your ways of thinking mean more to us than where you worked last. We’re looking for talent at its most genuine.

Know your work

No one does better than you. Prepare to go deep into how you formed an idea or reached a conclusion. We want to be taken along for those rides.

Stay curious

We don’t find difference when we go with the flow. We find it when we ask difficult questions. Think about what you want to know from us and why.

Help us help you

Less of a hint, more of an ask. But could we have done better? Let us know in the feedback sessions. We love to listen.