Digital Design Lead
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
Design and Arts
Skilled Worker
Job posted on July 11, 2025
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Job Description:
This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.
Do you want to join a well established, friendly team responsible for shaping and leading creative projects and standards across our award-winning Service? With a great eye for detail and a real passion for design, you’ll work collaboratively across major projects and campaigns, ensuring our messages reach the intended audience in the right way.
The University of Leeds is one of the top 80 universities in the world. We have a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities. Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe.
Great communication skills are essential, and the ability to tackle every aspect of a project from start to finish.
We are looking for an experienced, graphically and digitally focused creative design specialist to lead on the design aspects of high-profile cross-university and external projects. Working with the Digital Education Service, subject matter experts, videographers and external stakeholders, you will lead a team of creative professionals to design and develop high quality professional and innovative brands and design concepts. Design projects will include online courses for external platforms, internal blended learning modules and distance learning courses. All content and courses will be developed in line with the vision and ethos of the University and the University’s Digital Education Service strategies.
You will be a dynamic individual with proven experience in digital creative design accompanied by excellent communication and organisational skills. You will be able to evidence experience of defining brand and visual identity, as well as designing web-based content and promotional material.
What We Offer In Return
26 days holiday plus 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – that’s 42 days a year!
Generous pension scheme plus life assurance.
Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.
And much more!
Visa Eligibility:
Please note that due to Home Office visa requirements, this role may only be suitable for first-time Skilled Worker visa applicants if they are eligible for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:
Sue Bickerdike, Digital Education Manager (Production and Creative)
Email: s.r.bickerdike@leeds.ac.uk
APPLY NOW
Do you want to join a well established, friendly team responsible for shaping and leading creative projects and standards across our award-winning Service? With a great eye for detail and a real passion for design, you’ll work collaboratively across major projects and campaigns, ensuring our messages reach the intended audience in the right way.
The University of Leeds is one of the top 80 universities in the world. We have a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities. Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe.
Great communication skills are essential, and the ability to tackle every aspect of a project from start to finish.
We are looking for an experienced, graphically and digitally focused creative design specialist to lead on the design aspects of high-profile cross-university and external projects. Working with the Digital Education Service, subject matter experts, videographers and external stakeholders, you will lead a team of creative professionals to design and develop high quality professional and innovative brands and design concepts. Design projects will include online courses for external platforms, internal blended learning modules and distance learning courses. All content and courses will be developed in line with the vision and ethos of the University and the University’s Digital Education Service strategies.
You will be a dynamic individual with proven experience in digital creative design accompanied by excellent communication and organisational skills. You will be able to evidence experience of defining brand and visual identity, as well as designing web-based content and promotional material.
What We Offer In Return
26 days holiday plus 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – that’s 42 days a year!
Generous pension scheme plus life assurance.
Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.
And much more!
Visa Eligibility:
Please note that due to Home Office visa requirements, this role may only be suitable for first-time Skilled Worker visa applicants if they are eligible for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:
Sue Bickerdike, Digital Education Manager (Production and Creative)
Email: s.r.bickerdike@leeds.ac.uk