Design Director

This is a new creative leadership role in New York, built to turn a specialist beverage design studio’s US office into a growth engine.

The studio works exclusively in drinks, across brand design, packaging, innovation, and activation. It runs studios in London, Glasgow and New York, and the US business is now being deliberately restructured to put serious creative leadership on the ground. This is the role at the centre of that.

The Role
You’ll set the creative direction and raise the standards across everything that reaches clients, working in close partnership with the ECD and strategy teams on both day-to-day delivery and major pitches.

Two relationships sit at the heart of it: the first is a global drinks house that anchors the US account and needs strong creative leadership, and the second is a growing relationship with one of the largest brewers in the world. You’d develop both by understanding their commercial and brand challenges, deepening trust, and growing account scope.

Alongside that, you’ll lead new business in market, shaping pitches, presenting to prospects, and converting relationships into work, and when the situation calls for it, you’ll be hands-on with the ideas and the design, too.

The Package
$145,000 – $185,000
Hybrid working
401k matched
Profit share
Good maternity/paternity leave packages
Full comp medical, dentist & vision

The Person
You’re a Design Director with a background in drinks or consumer brands. Your portfolio carries an idea across brand, packaging, activation and communications: breadth over deep specialism. 

You’ve earned senior client trust, improved briefs, grown accounts and won new business. And you’ve done it somewhere lean rather than heavily structured, so you’re comfortable being close to the work, not distanced from it.