Associate Digital Design Director

Digitas Health London is the People-Powered Health agency: We help brands engage with people to deliver ideal health, now. We design transformative experiences that move people further along the path to health at any moment. By putting the power to change health outcomes in the hands of patients, healthcare professionals, carers, and payers, we help health brands create value across today’s connected health ecosystem. To do this, we start with a generous, behaviour-driven ideal then work in lean, agile and iterative ways to turn the ideal into action.

We are a generous, idealistic, straight-talking collection of creatives, strategists, analysts, social media experts, PMs, and client service leads. We work together to help people-centric health brands deliver new business value through new customer experiences. Whether connected content programmes, mobile apps, digital services, or social communities, we use digital and emerging technologies to help healthcare brands build loyalty, break habits, connect care ecosystems and disrupt traditional markets.

As part of Publicis Health, our small-but-mighty team works to bring applied innovation to a range of global, EMEA and UK clients, working in collaboration with other DH offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco and other sister agencies in London, Windsor and around the world. Learn more about DH at www.digitashealth.com. 

• Building strong relationships across the agency, working with the Creative Director to help shape the creative and design vision for the agency.
• Visible, client facing creative leadership. From briefing through to delivery, the partner that clients trust to make the right holistic creative decisions. Strong presentation and persuasion skills.
• Spearhead conceptual thinking fused with exceptional design execution across the broad portfolio of clients. Working closely with the Creative Director, ACD (Copy) and Associate UX Director creating a modern, flexible talent approach to how we solve creative briefs across a range of channels.
• Across a multitude of differing projects (anything from multiplatform brand identity, to launch campaigns, to cutting edge UI product design) leading on and ensuring everything from the project team is executed flawlessly across the ecosystem.
• Collaboration with strategy to help translate an understanding of audience and channel behaviours into our ideas, art direction, and design output. Helping internal teams and clients connect creative solutions to business and brand strategy.
• Active brand guardianship. Championing the highest standards of creative and design deliverables (within brand guardrails!) from briefing through to delivery and overseeing work by other conceptual teams and designers.
• Demonstrated ability to creatively lead a multidiscipline project team, including art directors, copywriters, designers, UX designers and wider teams.
• Specific line management responsibility for art direction & design talent.
• Leading by example, mentoring and growing other members of the art & design teams.
• Ability to share and inspire the broader creative team with a deep knowledge and never-ending curiosity towards digital trends, social platforms, emerging technology
• Partnering with CS & PM to establish the best approach and casting to deliver projects. Flexibility in approach and styles will be critical to ensure blended teams and skills are brought together to suit the need of the clients.

• You are a passionate, digital-first creative/design leader with a strong portfolio of creative work, including creative campaigns, digital content and experiences, and digital apps/products
• You have a track record of delivering high value craft and conceptual design and be keen to challenge the work. Applying your own creative initiative, you’ll be constantly pushing creative boundaries to deliver best in class design to inspire and engage our audience.
• You’re someone comfortable both directing and leading projects and people.
• You care about making work that matters to people – and you have experience shaping ideas and experiences that inspire action, participation and change.
• You have a keen eye on the evolution of digital technologies, platforms and experiences. You understand the digital zeitgeist, current best practices, and are sparking with ideas about how current digital innovations can enhance a brands value in the world
• You have impeccable craft skills and can deliver independently as well as confidently guide and review work by the team around you. You are able to evaluate and lead creative & design outputs across other domains (copy/art/design/user experience)
• You have strong communication and influencing skills, which you use to build strong relationships with agency teams, partners and clients
• You can lead and inspire creative & design teams
• You are collaborative by nature and adept at partnering with Strategy, UX, Client Service and Project Management to shape and deliver exceptional work
• You have a deep understanding and expert in Adobe CC and Figma
• You’re a trusted partner, with positive flair to build effective relationships with your peers across the business, specifically across strategy and client service.
• You’re comfortable with agility and the need to pivot depending on client priorities. Capable of effectively managing pace, volume and complexity while delivering high-quality work on time & on budget.

Digitas Health has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

• WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
• “YOU” DAYS – flexibility to take a day off for your well-being and self-care without prior notice and additional paid leave for volunteering and charity work of your choice.
• HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING & BANK HOLIDAY SWAP You can switch a religious Bank Holiday (either Good Friday or Easter Monday) for another day to celebrate a religious, spiritual, faith or belief-based day of your choosing.
• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week. 

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

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