Design Director
Design Director
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23-08-2025
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Job Description
Agency Overview
Marks is a brand design and experience agency that is uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. Fueled by our dual vantage points embedded partners and future-forward experts we build brand momentum to move fast move forward and move confidently.
As a full-service agency our expertise extends across all facets of the branding spectrum: strategy innovation design adaptation integrated marketing communications. Together we are 800 people across 16 studios and 10 countries.
Marks is part of SGS & Co a brand impact group built with the agility and inventiveness that enables our clients to thrive. Our sister company SGS is an integrated packaging and marketing company. Together we shift brands to impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the overall creative and production departments from goal setting creative resourcing business development and people management with the Regional Creative Director/VP Design Greater Asia
- Uphold and elevate the overall creative output of the deigns and development of key processes to ensure the highest level of creativity is achieved for the assigned tasks
- Lead coach manage and mentor a team of art directors designers copywriter and when required multi-media producers including CGI artists (for 3D/CGI projects with Marks NA or MNL team support)
- Support the overall direction of the creative team and enforce accountability when standards are not met
- Work with the Regional Creative Director and VP Design to develop and grow the creative department staffing strategies and plans including; team performance composition expertise skills training and mentoring
- Work directly with client leads and strategy to establish the creative/marketing objectives strategies tactics and required creative executions
- Actively participate in client presentations (both up-front fact-finding meetings presentation of finished creative strategies and executions; workshops or work session in collaboration with Strategy and Account Management Team)
- Build trust-based relationships with Key Clients for regional and global clients with the Account Management teams
- Leading by example inspiring your team to produce exceptional insightful work that fully explores challenges and goes beyond the brief.
- Approving work before client submission maintaining our quality of output. Support or lead client presentation with Account Management Team.
- Acting as the design consultant to Account/Client Management aligning briefs to the client and brand needs adding richness and insight to enable best-in-class design
- Take part in campaign communication and concept development and oversee creative work end to end with the support of Art Directors.
- Be the leading creative on all work spanning from global to regional or market campaigns concepts toolkit designs working with the creative teams for the Key Client
- Partake in developing creative briefs based on business briefs received from Key Client Trade Marketing Teams when required.
- Strong understanding and experience within the Chinese/APAC digital eco-system
- Maximising design resources managing teams workflow to deliver efficiently adapting the plan when things change in partnership with Resource Management.
- Growing the Hong Kong team by coaching setting clear objectives following the PDR/appraisal process with Regional Creative Director/VP Design.
- Ensuring your team follow file server naming conventions business policies and process.
Required Education and/or Experience:
- Strong knowledge of strategic creative and commercial aspect of brands and the world they inhabit
- Be an engaging presenter debating defending design work influencing.
- Stakeholder management skills
- Bilingual Fluent in spoken and written English and Mandarin
- Exceptional print / production/ material knowledge
- Adobe CC Office Sketching Advantages if familiar with 3D software and strong visualization skills
Experience:
- 8-12 years experience within a Brand/Packaging Design/Shopper Marketing/Retail Design agency in Snr Creative Design roles with extensive experience in brand integrated campaign strategy shopper marketing shopper journey to final instore retail solutions retail innovations and seamless retail experience online and offline
- With at least 4-year experience managing a creative department
- A strong knowledge of digital social and e-commerce advertising/marketing
- Experience leading campaign development and directing creative execution
- Strong organizational abilities including time and resource management
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Reputation for selecting and developing highly qualified employees to sustain superior overall quality of client services
- Refined personal development skills a team player and collaborator
- A degree in Graphic Design Product/Industrial Design Illustration Digital or related field
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
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