Art Director

The Art Director leads Jigsaw's visual expression across all channels, ensuring the brand is elevated, consistent, and commercially effective. This role owns the creative vision, oversees the studio, and delivers high quality content that reflects Jigsaw's design led, contemporary aesthetic., Define and evolve the brand's creative direction across campaigns, lookbooks, product imagery, retail, packaging, digital, and social.

• Lead concept development for seasonal campaigns and ensure ideas translate across all brand touchpoints.
• Oversee the creative studio's workflow and output, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to standard.
• Manage and mentor the Studio Manager, Stylist, and Graphic Designers, fostering a collaborative, high performance environment.
• Art direct all photography and video shoots, working closely with the stylist, external photographers, and production partners.
• Maintain Jigsaw's visual identity guidelines and ensure consistency across all communications.
• Collaborate with Merchandising, Ecommerce, and Marketing to ensure creative supports commercial objectives and product storytelling.
• Source and manage external creative partners when needed (photographers, retouchers, agencies, freelancers).
• Ensure all creative assets meet brand, quality, and technical standards for print and digital.
• Monitor creative trends in fashion, retail, and culture, integrating relevant insights into the brand's expression.

Proven experience as an Art Director within fashion or premium retail.

• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional art direction across campaign, digital, and editorial content.
• Confident leading shoots from concept through delivery, with a strong eye for styling, casting, and composition.
• Experienced managing a multidisciplinary creative team and studio environment.
• Highly organised, with the ability to oversee multiple projects and tight deadlines.
• Strong design sensibility with deep understanding of typography, layout, and visual storytelling.
• Comfortable collaborating across the business and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of end-to-end creative production, from ideation to final delivery.

• Creative, curious, and culturally aware.
• Calm under pressure, solution focused, and decisive.
• Passionate about design, fashion, and brand building.
• Able to balance creativity with commercial awareness.

Founded in 1970, Jigsaw was the first premium fashion brand on the high street. Since then, the company has expanded worldwide to work with the finest mills, cutting edge photographers, up-and-coming models, and renowned architects. But the search for the best in the industry never stops. As our journey continues, we're looking for passionate and talented people to learn about Style & Truth: a set of values that sets us apart from the rest of the high street, a belief that everyone should feel empowered to embrace their own style, be true to themselves, and not slavishly follow the fashion world.

This means putting style before trends and truth before hype.

• 25 days holidays
• Fantastic Staff discount schemes - up to 50% (and 70% on 5 items per season)
• Life Assurance
• Pension
• Access to the Unum
  - Help@Hand - Jigsaw's wellbeing and benefits provider, for a whole host of resources, support and discounts