Havas SO exists to create meaningful solutions in health that earn real-world impact. We believe design is one of the most powerful tools we have to make that happen — turning complexity into clarity, science into stories, and ideas into experiences that move through culture.
As advertising and design undergo the biggest structural reset in decades, we are building a next-generation creative team: one driven by cultural intelligence, world-class craft, multidisciplinary experimentation and the belief that design can shape human behaviour for the better.
We are also a deeply kind, curious, optimistic team. Great humans make great work.
The Role
We’re looking for a Head of Design who is a true hybrid:
a craft-obsessed design thinker, a cultural maker, an innovation explorer, and an inspiring leader capable of shaping one of the most exciting design teams in health.
You’ll work across and elevate multiple design disciplines:
* Graphic design and campaign identity
* Experiential and spatial design
* Social-first design and motion
* Editorial and information design
* Animation and moving image
* AI-enabled visual exploration and prototyping
Your remit is both creative and cultural: to set a new bar for design excellence in health, and to help build a team capable of producing work that shapes culture, not just communication.
What You’ll Do:
1. Set the design vision for the agency
* Define and champion a design POV rooted in cultural intelligence, meaningful health impact and world-class craft.
* Build a design culture that is brave, exploratory, caring and collaborative.
2. Lead multidisciplinary design across brands, campaigns and experiences
* Shape campaign identities, visual worlds and design systems.
* Lead experiential concepts, social design, information design and motion.
* Bring scientific, behavioural and cultural insights to life with emotional clarity.
3. Push creative innovation
* Use AI tools and workflows to accelerate exploration, refine craft and unlock new forms of expression.
* Stay ahead of emerging design trends, technologies and aesthetics — translating them into opportunities for the agency and clients.
4. Build and nurture a world-class design team
* Mentor, inspire and elevate designers across all levels.
* Hire with care: curious minds, kind collaborators, culturally aware thinkers, optimists by nature.
* Foster a safe, ambitious environment where designers can do the best work of their careers.
5. Partner across disciplines
* Collaborate seamlessly with creatives, strategists, scientists, copywriters and experience designers.
* Contribute to ideas upstream — shaping behaviours, not just visuals.
6. Ensure design excellence in every output
* Oversee final craft quality across Figma, Adobe Suite, motion, social, experiential and beyond.
* Insist on clarity, beauty and originality in every detail.
What You'll Bring:
* Senior experience across multiple design disciplines (graphic, experiential, social/motion, editorial, identity, digital).
* A portfolio that demonstrates range, depth, emotion and cultural relevance.
* Technical mastery of Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite, with comfort directing motion, animation and 3D workflows.
* Demonstrated experience using AI tools for ideation, visual development, prototyping or production.
* A love of culture — design trends, emerging aesthetics, movements, signals and behaviours.
* Ability to turn scientific or behavioural complexity into visual worlds that feel human, modern and meaningful.
* A leadership style rooted in kindness, curiosity, clarity and optimism.
* A belief that design doesn’t just reflect culture — it builds it.
* Deep motivation to create meaningful solutions in health that earn real-world impact.
Why Join Us
At Havas SO, you will help shape one of the most exciting creative teams in health today… a place where design, culture, science and innovation collide.
You’ll lead with craft and kindness.
You’ll build a team you’re proud of.
And you’ll create work that genuinely makes people’s lives better.