# Design Director

Design touches almost everything we do, and we care about it deeply because it helps shape the experience of being part of Ffern.We’re looking for a Design Director to work closely with our founders, bringing their creative direction to life, whilst maintaining the freedom and responsibility to shape how that work takes form and leading a team of deeply talented people who make it a reality. You bring an instinctive understanding of our aesthetic and the judgement to decide how it takes shape. Our plans from here are significant, and design is central to them. For this role you'll Have an eye close to ours - you look at what Ffern makes and see an aesthetic you could carry and develop. Bring senior design leadership, with experience line managing designers. Work with breadth across digital, print, packaging and physical product. Be exacting - a season holds dozens of variables, and you build a framework that keeps them all in order. Know paper stocks, finishes, texture and construction, and how to brief a maker. Have built a design function before: structure, specialisms, roadmap, design language. Be commercially aware, ideally from a subscription or direct-to-consumer business. En

- **Id**: 3698898
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ffern-design-director>
- **Role**: Design
- **Role family**: Design
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T18:37:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T11:48:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3370
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Consumer Goods, Fragrances & Perfumes, Crypto Wallets

## Company

- **Id**: 2239448
- **Name**: Ffern
- **Domain**: ffern.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ffern>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: HiBob

## Technologies

- **Figma** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T18:50:39Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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