Job Description
About Us
Hawes & Curtis is a quintessentially British heritage brand with a legacy in luxury shirting, fine tailoring, and stylish casualwear. With a strong reputation for quality and timeless design, we are proud to dress the modern gentleman and woman with impeccable craftsmanship and style.
The Role
As Senior Graphic Designer, you will play a key role in shaping and elevating the brand’s creative across digital, social, print and in-store environments, ensuring a consistent and premium experience across all customer touchpoints.
You’ll be responsible for developing and leading creative concepts from ideation through execution and will also bring a strong art direction sensibility supporting campaign planning, creative direction on shoots, and mentoring junior designers. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced retail environment and is passionate about delivering standout creative work with commercial impact.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the creation of integrated concepts and campaign creative across:
* Homepages and onsite content
* Email marketing
* Organic and paid social
* Digital display and motion assets
* In-store communications and large format print
* Packaging, POS, event and brand collateral
Provide art direction support across campaigns including:
* Mood boards and creative treatment creation
* Styling and shot-list direction
* On-set creative guidance and feedback
* Working closely with photographers and videographers
Own projects end-to-end:
* Creative development, production, delivery and adaptation
* Managing timelines and stakeholder expectations
* Ensuring assets are produced accurately, efficiently and consistently
* Maintain and elevate the brand’s creative and identity guidelines, ensuring consistency across all customer-facing design output.
* Liaise with and manage third-party agencies.
* Contribute actively to the evolution of the brand bringing new ideas, trend awareness and modern creative approaches.
Essential Requirements
* A portfolio demonstrating exceptional typography, layout, branding and integrated campaign work.
* Strong proficiency across the Adobe Creative Suite:
* Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign (essential)
* After Effects and/or Premiere Pro (strongly preferred)
* Figma (design systems, layouts, asset production).
* Confident presenting and explaining ideas clearly.
* Highly detail-oriented and organised with excellent time management.
* Strong in both digital and print, with a clear understanding of production requirements.
* Able to balance creativity with commercial performance and brand consistency.
* Calm, collaborative and constructive under pressure.
* Fluent in design language (you know your kerning from your leading, your GIFs from your MP4s, and you can handle both press files and web optimisation without second thought).
* Ability to take ownership of the creative process from concept through to delivery.
* Strong communication and collaboration skills with marketing, e-commerce and retail stakeholders.
* Experience in fashion retail or premium retail environment strongly preferred.
* Act as a senior creative voice ensuring creative is consistently elevated, on-brand and commercially effective.
* Implement AI tools for concept exploration, visual direction and iteration
* An understanding of how AI can support creative output, while preserving brand integrity and originality.
Strong understanding of best practice for:
* E-commerce content and onsite optimisation
* Social media creative and platform requirements
* Digital performance design (CTR-led creative thinking)
Proven experience managing:
* Large format print and multi-channel campaigns
* Multiple projects at pace with strong attention to detail
Qualifications
* Degree in Graphic Design / Visual Communication / Web Design or similar.
* Minimum 5+ years’ experience in an integrated design role (in-house or agency), with strong evidence of delivering premium, commercial creative.
*Please note this role is based 4/5 on-site