Design Director

MindGym uses the latest behavioural science to transform the performance of companies and the lives of people who work in them. We’ve partnered with over half the FTSE100 and S&P100, equipping them with an all-important human advantage.

We’re growing rapidly and have successfully floated on the London Stock Exchange.  This is just the start.  We have a bold vision to redefine how companies and individuals flourish, and so disrupt the market for behavioural change.

MindGym was born around a kitchen table in 2000. Since those early chain-tea-drinking sessions, we’ve inspired and transformed the performance of over three million people. And we’ve published four books, including an international best-seller. We’ve left the kitchen table, but we’ve never lost our hunger. 

About the role

The Design Team is the engine that brings to life MindGym’s behavioural change products, programs, and solutions for our global clients, large and small (including Nike, Netflix, Royal Mail, Lloyds and Swarovski). This growing team is responsible for ensuring MindGym experiences are supported by beautifully-designed executions that spark engagement, encourage participation, and drive activation across multiple touchpoints.

As a key member of the Design Team, the Design Director will work closely with our Senior Creative Director to develop thoughtful concepts and designs and present them to our clients. This individual will help evolve our design offering in ways that build our capabilities, streamline our processes, and optimise resources. In addition, they will manage and inspire a team of designers and artworkers to bring their best creative selves to work, every day, as they develop innovative solutions for our clients.

An important component of this role will be collaboration with our Solutions Team (our team of in-house occupational psychologists). An individual with a genuine interest in behavioural science as well as design will excel in this role.

Overall, this is a great opportunity for a mission-driven senior designer or art director who is passionate about making a positive difference to people’s lives.

About you

• A senior-level individual with experience managing and mentoring teams, talking to clients, developing projects and driving our business objectives from the front
• A strong background in engagement campaigns, branding and comms
• Maturity, confidence and composure, able to inspire team members and colleagues to work together to produce the best possible results, every time
• Experience creating beautifully-crafted designs, from concept to completion, at a leading brand consultancy, advertising agency or in-house design department
• Strong conceptual thinker, able to ideate, create and manage strategic concepts and engagement campaigns
• A mission-driven mindset that takes pride in developing experiences that create impact within organisations large and small
• Able to work individually or with a writer to meld words and images into powerful, persuasive strategic messages
• An agile, multi-tasking working style that can manage and develop multiple creative projects while collaborating closely with our Solutions Team to meet strategic objectives
• Confident and persuasive communication skills, capable of building relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience designing for digital, expertise with Adobe CC and Microsoft Office
• Experience with motion graphics will be a bonus

What you'll be doing

• Creating concepts for engagement campaigns which will be brought to life working with writers and the rest of the design team
• Understanding and utilising the behavioural science content and point of view on topics like DE&I and performance management when creating concepts for campaigns
• Getting under the skin of audiences; finding out what makes them tick and how you can best engage them
• Collaborating with the wider Creative Team, including Solutions Designers (our behavioural psychologists) to produce collateral for internal and external use
• Presenting work to clients and building their excitement around it
• Managing and inspiring a growing design team
• Driving operational efficiencies
• Representing MindGym and the Design Team to internal and external audiences

If this sounds like you, please get in touch. We’d love to talk!