Lead Digital Designer [Fashion/Luxury]

Texture is a fast-growing integrated agency specialising in luxury and fashion retail with a strong emphasis on e-commerce. We are looking for a Senior Digital Design Manager to lead our growing creative production team, delivering outstanding digital outputs for our clients. 

At Texture, you’ll have the opportunity to work with an inspiring and talented team to create stunning websites, identities and marketing campaigns for some of the industry’s most exciting premium brands.

The Role

• Responsible for the direction, design and delivery of projects in a range of areas, such as UX/UI design, branding, paid adverts, newsletters and other related projects
• Leading a team of designers and digital creatives to ensure projects are well resourced and delivered on time, budget and to impressive creative standards
• Accountable for polishing and perfecting design work produced by other team members before final client delivery 
• Collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders to produce high-level concepts 
• Dissecting campaign briefs from the Strategy and Activation team and translating these into ad assets. Working closely with a team of designers to execute various assets for campaigns and other digital projects
• Rapid prototyping of UI designs and other artwork to accommodate our clients’ fast-paced needs 
• User-journey (UX) exploration and testing to ensure the customer journal is as robust as it is beautiful
• Preparing and pitching new ideas to prospective clients  
• Helping to improve the agency’s own internal creative project management processes 
• Helping to refine the agency’s own brand aesthetic across all touchpoints 

What We’re Looking For

• 5-6+ years experience 
• An exceptional portfolio of design work spanning a range of disciplines
• An excellent understanding of design for premium e-commerce and its related challenges
• Demonstrable experience leading agile design teams with a mix of skill sets (e.g design, animation)
• Proven capability with tools such as Photoshop, XD, Animate, Figma, Illustrator and similar 
• A passion for typography, colour selection and beautiful modern layouts
• Detail-obsession and a desire to perfect every element
• The ability to “wear multiple hats” and be comforting switching between design work and team management 
• A strong understanding of UX-driven design and an ability to marry up creative layouts with an optimised user-journey
• The ability to work in close collaboration and also independently to hit demanding deadlines
• Very good communication skills with other team members, including photographers, developers and copywriters
• A basic understanding of web languages (e.g HTML, CSS) and web development processes 

What We Offer 

• Flexible working conditions (even after covid-19) 
• A vibrant and modern office environment (should you wish to use it) 
• Your own upgraded Mac hardware (iMac and Macbook)
• Fantastic opportunities for career progression and growth 
• Highly competitive holiday allowance 
• A collaborative, non-political internal culture