Title: Design Director
Reporting to: Associate Creative Director, New York
Location: 200 Madison Avenue, New York (three days in office, two days working from home)
Employment type: Full-time

We’re looking for a thoughtful and rigorous Design Director with a solid understanding of brand. You know how to conduct an audit, working directly with strategists linking strategy to creative territories. You imagine thoughtful design directions, pushing the boundaries of the strategy and the codes of the category.

With a discerning eye, you transform design directions into identity systems that are clear, scalable and thoughtfully codified. Your portfolio reflects your depth in branding and includes robust examples of identity standards.

About you:

You bring energy, curiosity, and an open mind to every critique, drawing from a rich well of experience and inspiration. You build relationships naturally, communicate with ease, and bring confidence and warmth to interactions with everyone, from junior designers to senior partners. You’re organised and can manage multiple workflows in partnership with our account managers.

You’re ready to elevate ideas and craft, while helping others grow. You’re excited to contribute to the way we work – to shape our processes, enrich our culture, and help build something exceptional alongside a team that cares deeply about design. And above all, you’re ready for what’s next in your career.

You’ll be a steady force ensuring the smooth, thoughtful progression of our projects – managing your own time and that of junior and senior designers while tracking the workflow of the studio with clarity and care. You’ll take the lead in structuring critiques across both local and remote teams, helping shape a studio environment where everyone feels supported, ideas evolve, and great work thrives.

In presentations, you’ll bring stories to life – articulating the why behind the work with conviction, clarity, and creative enthusiasm. You’ll roll up your sleeves and collaborate with our team, bringing your conceptual eye and hands-on design talent to every phase of the process. You bring an openness for collaboration and relationship building, including internal and client partners. You’ll report to the Associate Creative Director, with a dedicated Senior Designer’s support.

Relevant experience:

• No less than eight years’ experience, specific to reputable branding agencies
• A portfolio of visual identity work
• Hold a design-related degree from a leading design institution
• Strong design fundamentals
• Confident presentation skills
• Ability to track and manage multiple projects
• Inquisitive, positive and thoughtful

We offer:

• Hybrid working (three days in the office, two days working from home)
• Collaborative and friendly team
• Great work/life balance

About us:

Founded in 1957 by Sir Terence Conran, we’re Havas’ brand and design network. With studios in London, Paris, Dubai, Mumbai, Mexico City and New York, our team of 250 strategists and creatives work across brand strategy, brand design, experience design, strategic communications and corporate reporting, using thoughtful design to inspire progress for our clients.

We believe progress is achieved through balance. Between ambition and pragmatism, imagination and intellect, hard work and life beyond work. It’s this approach that underpins our ethos when it comes to brand building. And it’s also what makes life at Conran Design Group so rewarding. Progressive thinking for ambitious brands – alongside a clearly mapped-out career path for the people who make it happen.

Interested? To apply for this role, please email:

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