Design Lead (Fintech)

Location: City of London, United Kingdom. Hybrid work with three days in the office.

Company

FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving more than 1.4 million customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions.

What you will do

• Evolve the visual identity and design system across digital marketing, CRM, social, performance channels, educational content, and branded experiences.
• Shape creative concepts upstream with marketing and content stakeholders and translate complex financial concepts into intuitive visual narratives.
• Provide art direction, feedback, formal line management, career development, workload planning, and resourcing for Brand Designers.
• Present and defend creative concepts and rationale to senior marketing and business stakeholders, protecting creative quality and brand integrity.
• Define quality standards, briefing templates, and ways of working to improve the consistency and efficiency of studio output.
• Partner with the Head of Creative, Brand Marketing, external agencies, and cross-functional teams on brand evolution and campaign asset delivery.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in graphic design focused on digital marketing, with demonstrated creative leadership experience.
• Strong portfolio showing creative excellence and the ability to define and evolve a brand or design system.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Excellent typography skills and a sharp eye for detail.
• Experience designing for a multi-market audience and adapting creative across different regions.
• Proven experience managing and developing a small creative team, including workload planning and resourcing across multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience setting creative direction and defending creative decisions with senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing relationships with external creative agencies.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with three office days per week.
• Flexible benefits package worth 12% on top of salary, private medical cover, life insurance, and gym membership contributions.
• 25 days of holiday plus a birthday day and two volunteering days, with the option to buy or sell additional holiday days.
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning and comprehensive global and local onboarding.
• Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women's, Black, and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for events and projects.
• Enhanced parental pay and leave, mentoring, volunteering, social clubs, and opportunities to participate in ESG initiatives.