Penhaligon\'s, Senior Digital Design Manager

The Senior Digital Design Manager will be working within the Global Creative Image team and alongside the Digital team to create best-in-class digital designs from concept to production ensuring consistency across the board. This includes overseeing all website designs, emails, and paid marketing, as well as designing and creating ad hoc briefs such as animations and large-scale digital screens for stores, airports, and pop-ups.

The Senior Digital Design Manager will be responsible for managing one midweight digital designer, overseeing and managing the delivery of all weekly briefs and decks, as well as maintaining the evergreen pages and emails. Working closely with the Digital UX/UI team, the Senior Digital Design Manager will oversee the continuing development of the brand's new website, which launched in 2024, ensuring all designs and pages are developed and built to the highest quality and best practice.

Reporting to the Head of Creative Image and liaising directly with the Brand Director to ensure the brand message is clear and consistent from store to online. This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

What you’ll get to do:

• Work on both original conceptual designs and interpreting predetermined creative direction from a larger offline campaign and adapting it for online use.
• Manage one Mid-weight Designer on the production of digital artwork including website, emails, digital displays, and paid social advertising.
• Deliver impactful animated content, GIFs, and motion graphics that elevate campaign storytelling.
• Design and deliver large scale animations for use across digital screens in-store and across markets.
• Conceptualise and design microsites and immersive digital experiences.
• Communicate ideas and concepts clearly and concisely in brainstorming sessions and presentations.
• Liaise with the Digital team to understand the performance of digital assets and paid marketing assets to ensure best practice across platforms.
• Maintain accuracy and attention to detail throughout the creative process.
• Seek to understand the customers across different markets and produce digital assets which both convey the brand in the best way and are highly effective at engaging target audiences online.
• Liaise with the Head of Creative Image on upcoming projects and how to bring them to life across all digital platforms.
• Keep up to date with the latest technology/updates to ensure all digital templates adhere to best practice for each platform.

We’d love to meet you if you have:

• A strong design portfolio demonstrating a wide range of digital design, including websites, emails, social media and animated content, across multiple customer touchpoints, ideally within the Luxury or Beauty industries.
• Minimum of 5-8 years’ experience.
• Experience managing junior designers and liaising with agencies and freelancers.
• Strong After Effects skills, with experience creating animated GIFs and video content for luxury brands; video editing skills are highly advantageous.
• Strong understanding of online accessibility and UX/UI principles.
• Experience designing and creating working prototypes in Figma.
• Ability to pitch concepts using sketches, wireframes and mock-ups.
• Strong design sensibility with a keen eye for layout and interactive experiences.
• Knowledge of HTML, HTML5, CSS and JSON is advantageous.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team.
• Expert use of Photoshop (Mac-based); retouching skills are advantageous.

We welcome Creators Of All Kinds. If you are unsure of meeting all the requirements but trust you have the transferable skills to excel in this role, complete the application and our teams will get in touch if you are selected for an interview.

A few things you’ll love about us:

• An entrepreneurial, creative and welcoming work culture.
• A range of learning and development opportunities.
• An international company with plenty of opportunities to grow.
• A competitive compensation & benefits package.

Puig is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. At Puig, we are continually looking for enthusiastic and committed individuals from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences to join our team. We believe that creating an inclusive environment in which you feel welcomed, valued, engaged, and empowered strengthens our business and fosters a culture where we are inspired to work hard, challenge ourselves, and be innovative in our thinking. Additionally, we believe that the diversity of our employees makes us a stronger company and better able to serve our customers around the world.