Design Directors, Video & Animation - Building our Networks

🏢 Journey · 📍 London

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About the Role

Role Details

We are looking to meet Design Directors in Video & Animation specifically working freelance or in fixed term contracts. This area of design practice is a key pillar in our multidimensional design work and we have some great long-term relationships, but as our portfolio grows we're looking to build our networks and meet new collaborators that can co-deliver our next stage of projects.

In particular we’re looking for people, at the moment, who can lead projects across large scale permanent and touring exhibitions & with experience of long-form immersive storytelling on a variety of canvases including immersive spaces, projection mapping and architecturally integrated media.

To manage expectations, this is not an opportunity for those interested in full time, permanent positions - we are only looking, at this stage, to connect with people on a freelance or fixed-term project specific basis.

The Design Director creates and communicates design concepts to both internal teams and external partners, leads the design team drawing from their own specific design approach and specialism, and offers the experience and ingenuity to turn concepts into coherent and original design responses.

Due to the nature of our interdisciplinary work across industries the Design Director title and remit can vary across projects; being referred to as video designer, design lead, project lead or similar based on the scope and/or specific project context.

The role suits a highly experienced design leader with an appetite and the motivation to apply your design experience to our portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

Creative

Create and develop design-led responses to briefs
Attend client-facing design meetings to assimilate and understand a creative brief
Lead and coordinate the design process on multiple, varying scale projects with substantial budgets, taking them from concept through all design phases to delivery
Collaborate with project design teams to integrate the design response
Appraise and cr

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating relentless user-centric design intuition, storytelling capability, and rapid experimentation discipline.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Designing purely for aesthetics without grounding decisions in user behavior metrics.
2. Taking defensive postures when receiving critical feedback on product designs.
3. Lacking a structured methodology for conducting user research and validation.

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I design intuitive user journeys that bridge emotional engagement with measurable business conversion.

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