Senior Art Director

Overview

As Senior Art Director, you will lead regional creative from concept to delivery for Remitly’s EMEA & APAC markets, elevating brand work and performance-driven campaigns. You’ll collaborate with global teams and agencies to ensure quality and localization across languages, while coaching junior designers and shaping regional strategies. The role blends design leadership with data-driven optimization to drive measurable creative outcomes. You’ll operate in a hybrid London setting, influencing cross-functional partners and advancing the brand on a global scale.

Pay / Benefits

• Paid Vacation Days
• Health insurance
• Commuter benefit
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• Continuing education

Responsibilities

• Lead creative development for regional campaigns across brand and performance channels; ensure work meets global quality standards
• Translate briefs into insight-led concepts prioritizing customer needs
• Own end-to-end design projects, selecting methods and timelines to meet business objectives
• Review external agency work, raising quality while maintaining brand accuracy
• Audit and optimize existing creative using data, insights and market context
• Design with localization in mind, considering non-English languages from the start
• Communicate timelines, risks, blockers, and dependencies to stakeholders
• Collaborate with global teams to align regional needs with broader strategies
• Mentor junior designers and share knowledge across locations
• Improve processes, templates and delivery to boost quality, efficiency and consistency

Key requirements

• 6-8+ years in visual/digital design across multiple channels
• Proven leadership of campaigns or regional creative with in-market results
• Strong command of Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
• Ability to convert strategy and customer insight into compelling concepts
• Experience directing external agencies and raising their work quality
• Experience mentoring junior creatives
• Strong judgment and structured thinking in ambiguous situations; build alignment across viewpoints
• Reliable, ownership-focused in a hybrid work environment
• Bonus: motion design, AI creative tools for ideation/production, presenting to senior stakeholders

• leadership
• coaching/mentoring
• clear communication
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Figma
• motion design (bonus)

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