Design Director

How&How are looking for a Design Director to organise, inspire and lead our growing team of graphic, motion and digital designers. On projects and accounts you’ll work closely with the creative and production teams to lead the design of brands, user interfaces and campaigns. You’ll be at home creating immaculate presentations which tell inspiring stories, and bring clients along with the Studio’s collective ideas and visions.

You will nurture, challenge and get the most out of your design team and be a source of knowledge and inspiration to them too. You will be the creative engine driving our projects forward—and be as comfortable designing as you are directing or mentoring..

Topline: we’re looking for a Design Director who wants to make our Studio stronger, and believes their best work is still ahead of them. This person will chase big ideas, agonise over the details and have a kind and generous heart.

What you’ll do:

• Be responsible for leading projects—alongside a team of seniors, mids and juniors with oversight from our Creative Directors
• Be responsible for the development of our designers—working alongside them to get the most out of them through mentoring and showing them how it’s done
  
• Collaborate with strategists, writers, producers and the creative team to deliver work that is bold, conceptual and different
  
• Be ultra confident in leading and delivering presentations of your team’s work to clients, inspiring them to make creative leaps
  
• Relish diving into any stage of the creative process to assist, encourage or recover the work of others

What we’re after for the Role:

• Currently a Design Director or an experienced Senior Designer looking to take things up a gear

• 7+ years industry experience

• A talent spotter with strong relationships with other freelance designers and contributors

• Have experience creating brands for digital-first businesses

• Have experience leading multiple creative projects at the same time, with light-touch oversight from a Creative Director

• Be a self-driven leader with a curious mind and zero ego

• Be a font of technical design knowledge with a keen eye for detail and a drive for creative perfection in yourself and others

• At ease with the buck stopping with you

• Have your finger on the pulse of current trends in the world of design / art / fashion / creativity and bring that information and enthusiasm for popular culture into the Studio everyday

• Know when to stand up for your creative vision and when to support the opinions of your team or clients

What we’re after for our Agency & Team:

• Curious about brands and the positive impact they can have on the world
• Interested in more than just design
• Ambitious self-starter who can thrive in ambiguity
• Can-do positivity and optimistic attitude :)

What we offer:

• Salary £73,500 (1st tier) / £79,000 (2nd tier)—with Bonus Opportunities

• 39 Day Holiday allocation—28 days holiday + 8 bank holidays + Christmas shutdown

• Based from our bright and airy London studio, in the heart of Shoreditch with 2 days WFH per week

• 5pm finish on a Friday

• Monthly 1-2-1s, 3 month Check-ins and 6 Month Reviews to make sure you have meaningful and regular access to your line managers and mentors

• Open, Equal & Transparent Pay Brackets

• £1,000/year Skills & Training Allowance

• Sabbatical policy of up to 3 months after you've been with us for 2 years

• Cross-Skill Training—giving you the ability to improve on overall performance with cross training by strengthening one’s skillset. Shadow a teammate to learn a new skill or teach one

• 2 Week Remote Working Opportunities (timezone dependent)

• We’re B-Corp Certified, which means our agency meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability

• Impact Days—as part of our B-Corp initiative, we give you an extra 2 days a year to make an impact and volunteer in a way that means something to you

• Visa Sponsorship - we can help sponsor your Visa in the UK! Currently working on doing the same in the U.S.

• We operate a profit share scheme with everyone in the agency because we believe everyone should share in the success of the entire team. 

• Fun Fact! We had a great final quarter in 2024, so bumped everyone's salaries across the agency by 5% - from intern to director. Because we believe everyone should be raised at the same time, across the board. 

• Maternity & Paternity Packages

Maternity

• 90% of your average weekly earnings (before tax) for the first 6 weeks

• 80% for the next 20 weeks (a total of 6 months)

• Statutory after that up to 33 weeks

Paternity

• 100% of your weekly earnings (before tax) for 4 weeks

What you can expect:

At How&How, we take pride in a hiring process that ensures we bring in the best talent, while creating an experience that's clear, fair, and transparent.

Here’s what you can expect after submitting an application:

1. Submit Your Application
   We begin by reviewing your application. If your experience aligns with what we’re looking for, we’ll get in touch to arrange an interview.
   

2. Interview with Our Team
   If selected, you’ll have an initial chat with one of our team members to discuss your skills, background, portfolio and how you could contribute to our team.
   

3. Online Assessment via Test Gorilla
   Next, you'll be asked to complete an online assessment through Test Gorilla. This helps us understand your problem-solving abilities and how you approach challenges—no pressure, just a chance for us to see how you think.
   

4. Final Interview with Our Founders
   If you do well in the assessment, we’ll invite you to a final interview with our founders, Cat and Rog. This is a relaxed yet insightful conversation where we get to know you better and discuss how you'd fit into our growing team.

We’re excited to meet new, passionate individuals who are ready to collaborate and make a real impact. If that’s you, don’t hesitate—apply today!

Social & Environmental Impact

As a Manager or Director at H&H, we expect you to help drive social and environmental impact in the company. Driving such impact includes:

• Advocating the value of social and environmental impact to our team and as a leader in the business (e.g. championing sustainability)

• Seeking and delivering of work which not only delivers commercial value, but increases the social and environmental impact that we make for our clients

• Looking for new opportunities that H&H can do to help drive social and environmental, e.g. charity partnerships, volunteering, carbon offsetting etc.

• Meeting with your team yearly to review what personal initiatives workers could be doing in and outside of work that can help drive social and environmental impact.

About How&How:

Liberating ideas the World deserves.

How&How are a talent-driven, branding agency with offices in London and LA. Since 2020, we’ve been growing a team of the world’s best thinkers, most talented creatives and restlessly curious minds in a collaborative, ego-free culture that nurtures creative ambition and promotes growth.

We're B-Corp Certified, proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

We’re looking for the person—not the job description. If you’d like to be part of our team, we’d love to hear from you. You may be exactly what we’re looking for... we just don’t know it yet ☺