Art Director

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job reference TCC
000950 Date posted 07/09/2026 Final date to receive applications Blank Location Hybrid / London Office Salary Salary up to 65000 + benefits Package competitive Contractual hours 40 Basis Full time Job category/type Blank Attachments Blank

This is a senior design craft leadership role within a growing home lifestyle and furniture brand with 15 stores and a strong online customer base. The Art Director is responsible for the visual quality and technical execution of everything the brand produces — from campaign assets and paid social creative to product photography, the design system and store communications.

The Art Director is the person who takes creative vision and delivers it at the highest standard through a skilled design team. This is a role rooted in design craft: the right person will have started their career as a designer and that foundation will inform everything about how they lead, brief and quality-control the team's output.

The owns the brand's visual design system and takes progressive ownership of shoot creative direction. It reports directly to the Creative Director and is their closest executional partner.

• Own, maintain and evolve the brand's visual design system — typography, colour, layout principles, iconography and image treatment — ensuring consistency across every touchpoint
• Act as the final design quality check on all visual output before it goes to market, holding the team to a high and consistent standard
• Maintain and develop brand design guidelines, master templates and asset libraries used across the business
• Bring a trained design eye to every output — from a paid social frame to a store POS panel — ensuring craft quality is never compromised by pace
• Stay current with design, motion and visual trends relevant to the lifestyle and home sector, sharing relevant inspiration with the team

• Oversee the production of all creative assets — campaign collateral, paid social formats, web visuals, email, brochures, store POS and studio product photography
• Manage design team workloads, briefs and delivery schedules, ensuring output is on time, on brief and to the standard the brand demands
• Coach and develop each team member individually, providing regular craft feedback and supporting their technical growth
• Identify skills gaps and work with the Creative Director to address them through training, freelance support or future recruitment
• Champion rigorous design process and production standards across the team, including file management, naming conventions and handover quality
• Take progressive ownership of shoot creative direction — scamps, mood boards, location review and on-set art direction — transitioning from the Creative Director over the first six months in role
• Bring a design-led perspective to every shoot: ensuring framing, composition, colour palette and styling choices are rooted in the brand's visual language
• Work closely with the Production Manager on shoot logistics, scheduling and freelance photographer and videographer relationships
• Brief and direct the Studio Stylist on all product photography for the website, ensuring consistency and quality across all NPD and studio output
• Review all shoot output before it is signed off and distributed, applying a trained design eye to every image

• Work proficiently across the Adobe Creative Cloud suite — InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop are core requirements;
  After Effects and Premiere Pro are a strong…