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Head of Design

Stars 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom

$55,000 - $65,000 Full-time

Lead and develop a multidisciplinary design team while setting the agency’s creative vision and standards across web, digital marketing, brand, campaigns, and performance creative. Provide senior creative direction for major projects and pitches, collaborate across agency departments, strengthen client relationships, and improve the design function’s processes and capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a multidisciplinary design team while setting the agency’s creative vision and standards across web, digital marketing, brand, campaigns, and performance creative. Provide senior creative direction for major projects and pitches, collaborate across agency departments, strengthen client relationships, and improve the design function’s processes and capabilities.

Requirements

  • The role calls for an experienced creative or design leader, ideally from a digital or integrated agency, with a strong track record in digital design, UX/UI, brand, and campaigns. Candidates should combine creative judgment with commercial awareness, confidently present to senior clients, and be able to inspire and develop a team.

Key Skills

Design leadership Creative direction Multidisciplinary team management Web design Digital marketing design Brand design Campaign design Performance creative UX/UI principles Client relationship building Design system development Process improvement Presentation skills Commercial awareness Cross‑functional collaboration Mentoring junior designers Strategic thinking Agency workflow knowledge Project pitching Creative vision setting

About Stars

Hello. We’re Recruiting Stars. We might be a new brand (born in 2025) but we bring decades of experience with us. We’ve spent over 20 years each recruiting in the marketing, creative and digital space. It’s what we love. It’s what we’re good at. We do things properly - always with heart. That means treating people like people, not placements. We genuinely care about everyone involved in the process. If you’re an agency or business looking to grow your team, we’d love to help you find your future stars. And if you’re a marketing, creative or digital specialist who’s not quite in the right role - or just curious about what’s out there - we’d love to have a chat. Maybe even help you align your stars. Get in touch—message or call: Julie: 07968 711276 Emma: 07963 908944

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