Head of Design

The Role

We’re looking for a Head of Design who is a true hybrid:

a craft-obsessed design thinker, a cultural maker, an innovation explorer, and an inspiring leader capable of shaping one of the most exciting design teams in health.

You’ll work across and elevate multiple design disciplines:

• Graphic design and campaign identity
• Experiential and spatial design
• Social-first design and motion
• Editorial and information design
• Animation and moving image
• AI-enabled visual exploration and prototyping

Your remit is both creative and cultural: to set a new bar for design excellence in health, and to help build a team capable of producing work that shapes culture, not just communication.

1. Set the design vision for the agency

• Define and champion a design POV rooted in cultural intelligence, meaningful health impact and world-class craft.
• Build a design culture that is brave, exploratory, caring and collaborative.

2. Lead multidisciplinary design across brands, campaigns and experiences

• Shape campaign identities, visual worlds and design systems.
• Lead experiential concepts, social design, information design and motion.
• Bring scientific, behavioural and cultural insights to life with emotional clarity.

3. Push creative innovation

• Use AI tools and workflows to accelerate exploration, refine craft and unlock new forms of expression.
• Stay ahead of emerging design trends, technologies and aesthetics — translating them into opportunities for the agency and clients.

4. Build and nurture a world-class design team

• Mentor, inspire and elevate designers across all levels.
• Hire with care: curious minds, kind collaborators, culturally aware thinkers, optimists by nature.
• Foster a safe, ambitious environment where designers can do the best work of their careers.
• Collaborate seamlessly with creatives, strategists, scientists, copywriters and experience designers.
• Contribute to ideas upstream — shaping behaviours, not just visuals.

6. Ensure design excellence in every output

• Oversee final craft quality across Figma, Adobe Suite, motion, social, experiential and beyond.
• Insist on clarity, beauty and originality in every detail.

• A portfolio that demonstrates range, depth, emotion and cultural relevance.
• Technical mastery of Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite, with comfort directing motion, animation and 3D workflows.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools for ideation, visual development, prototyping or production.
• A love of culture — design trends, emerging aesthetics, movements, signals and behaviours.
• Ability to turn scientific or behavioural complexity into visual worlds that feel human, modern and meaningful.
• A leadership style rooted in kindness, curiosity, clarity and optimism.
• A belief that design doesn’t just reflect culture — it builds it.
• Deep motivation to create meaningful solutions in health that earn real-world impact.

At Havas SO, you will help shape one of the most exciting creative teams in health today… a place where design, culture, science and innovation collide.

You’ll lead with craft and kindness.

You’ll build a team you’re proud of.

And you’ll create work that genuinely makes people’s lives better.