Mid-Senior Designer – SD3205

The Speed Read:

This is a great opportunity to join the creative team of the UK's leading provider of online fundraising services to charities and their supporters as a Mid-Senior Designer, producing meaningful design that will have an effect on peoples lives for the better.

The Facts:

You will be part of a small team, working collaboratively with a cross-functional team in an environment that is both creative and technical. More specifically, you will be responsible for creating beautiful, engaging and optimised marketing campaign web pages as well as the full range of traditional applications.  

You will need to have an excellent understanding of all design mediums, with at least 5+ years experience. You will demonstrate a strong creative flair, with a forward thinking and proactive approach to your work, and a knack for attention to detail.

In addition you will be an expert in Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, coupled with good sketching skills to help quickly communicate your ideas. Excellent knowledge of web build and design with a working understanding of HTML, CSS and accessibility would be preferable, together with a comprehensive understanding of artwork delivery.

You’ll be:

Excited about digital design

Forward thinking with a proactive approach to everything you do

A team player

salary: circa £35k+

Senior Designer – SD3206

A great opportunity to join the creative team of the UK's leading provider of online fundraising services to charities and their supporters as a Senior Designer, closely supporting the Creative Director.

The facts:

You will join a small but growing design team, working collaboratively with a cross-functional team of UX designers, copywriters, developers and marketeers, in an environment that is both creative and technical. More specifically, you will be creating innovative web products, mobile apps, web pages, as well as the full range of traditional print applications.

You will need to have an excellent understanding of all design mediums but particularly digital, with at least 7+ years experience. You will demonstrate a strong creative flair, with exceptional traditional graphic design skills applied to digital design.  You will be forward thinking with a proactive approach to your work, and excellent attention to detail.  You will also have experience in managing and mentoring a team, as you will be required to support the Creative Lead in these activities.

You’ll be able to easily demonstrate an excellent knowledge of web build and design with a working understanding of HTML, CSS and accessibility is essential.

You’ll be:

Forward thinking in both your personality and your design ambition

A collaborative team player and leader

A master at juggling an prioritising multiple deadlines without losing quality (or your head)

salary: circa £50k

Midweight Designer - SH3208

The Speed Read:

We need a mid weight designer for a sports branding agency.

The Facts:

This branding agency works with global sports businesses and consumer sports brands across loads of deliverables that include branding and digital to publications and event graphics. They need a strong all rounder to join their team. You should be able to demonstrate a folio of beautifully executed corporate identity work, including guidelines, and you should be both conceptual and able to detail a project through to delivery. Although you will not be required to design for digital, you will be able to create a visual language that can work in digital. Some projects will have lots of content and your folio will also show that you can deal with data and turn it into info graphics and strong layouts.

You should be confident and articulate, able to present your ideas to clients, in an engaging and persuasive manner. You will be working initially with a global sports organisation and will be required to produce innovate ideas while staying on brand.

You can work independently but this is a busy agency, so it’s important that you are a team player; you will be happy to roll up your sleeves.

You’ll have:

Around 4 year’s experience you’ll be a strong all rounder

Experience in sports can help – but it’s not essential. An interest is important though.

Your Superpower:

Versatility

Salary: £30k

Account Executive - SH3190

The speed read

This communications agency is well respected and produces thoughtful, strategic and beautifully designed communications for businesses.

The facts

You will have a year or two’s experience in a design agency and will have managed some small print projects, either partly or completely.

You will understand the importance of attention to detail and will have had some exposure to schedules and budgets. You will be keen to learn from, and provide support to, the team around you to develop your client services and project management skills. Whilst you will be expected to have the ability to work independently, you will be given training, support and guidance from senior members of the team and it will be a great opportunity to learn in successful environment. You will show a natural ability and interest in managing content and have great attention to detail.

You’ll be

Good to have around

Keen to learn

Ideal superpower

Pleasantly ambitious!

Salary: £20 - £28k, depending on experience

Midweight Designer – SD3179

The speed read:

If you are a solid mid-weight designer who enjoys working as part of a small and tight-knit team, then this could be the role for you.

This small but perfectly formed design team is the London arm of a larger international design agency, predominantly working for a major financial client based in the City.

The facts:

You will either be stepping into early mid-weight, or already at this level, with plenty of ideas coupled with strong end to end skills, right through to artworking, and you will have solid print-process knowledge.  You will also have already been used to lots of responsibility, and have a folio with high quality creative and craft in it.

The work is varied across brand communication, campaign and design work.  If you are a lover of sport all the better as you will be designing sponsorship collateral for many high profile sporting events, as well as a broad brand communications mix.

You’ll be:

A creative thinker

Absolutely meticulous about the detail

Self-motivated and nice to have around

Salary: £28k

Senior Designer - SD3178

The speed read:

Our client is a small and lovely team who form the London office of a larger international agency, working predominantly for a major financial client based in the City. They are looking for a senior designer to take the reigns from senior/lead designer who is shortly to go on maternity leave. The contract is for 1 year.

The facts:

You will be an experienced Senior Designer, used to both leading and being very hands on. Experience in a small team would be advantageous as you will be used to wearing a number of hats - this is a client facing role, and you will also be responsible for managing and mentoring a mid-weight designer.  

You will have a love of print, illustration and typography. Experience in cardboard engineering would be a plus.

The work is varied across brand and marketing communication, campaign and design work. If you are a lover of sport all the better as you will be designing sponsorship collateral for many high profile sporting events, as well as a broad brand communications mix.

You’ll be:

A conceptual thinker, and a crafted do-er.

Self-motivated and motivating to others.

Salary: circa £39k

Digital Producer - SH3192

The speed read:

If you are an experienced Digital Producer this is a great chance to

join a rapidly growing branding agency at a very exciting time.

The facts:

This is an integrated branding and communications agency and its

creative team is a mix of 2d and 3d designers. Brand is at the heart

of everything they do; creating brands and bringing them to life.

The team is looking for an experienced digital producer to manage

the digital side of brand, creative and communications projects. You

must have experience in digital project management working within

a multi-channel creative agency and should have creative flair with

a passion for digital technologies.

You need to have a detailed understanding of the full digital project

life cycle and your responsibilities will include creating project

plans, managing the delivery of all elements, planning resource and

time, liaising with clients and briefing designers and developers.

You will have demonstrable experience of QA/UAT, deployment and

metrics and will have a good understanding of the technology

behind a digital build. You’ll be familiar with UI, UX and IA and will

be able to use your insight and research skills to advise clients and

guide designers when required. Ideally you will have worked on a

variety of multi channel campaigns across B2B and B2C.

This role is to start asap so if it sounds like you, please apply

stating salary expectations.

Your superpower: 

Curious, creative and up for a challenge

Creative Consultant - SB3142

This consultancy helps clients communicate change, a message or a key business goal to its’ employees, at all levels. It works with large organisations to create and implement programmes that do this. The programmes that are developed could include many different forms of creative output, whether it is film, web, print or event based. Whatever it is, it will seek to change, instil, support or inspire certain behaviours that will, in turn, improve performance.

The speed read:

This role is for someone with a creative background (design/branding/advertising) who has the curiosity to get to the heart of an organisation and wants to discover what makes it tick. You will be able to consult with a client, research them and deliver insights that reveal a valuable truth or insight within that organisation. You will then produce and lead the creative brief to the idea that will excite and inspire your clients.

You will lead and inspire a creative team and oversee the output to make sure that your 'big idea' is realised. You will be happy to steer the development and application of the idea across the programme.

You will be able to demonstrate excellent leadership skills with the strategy, design and production teams. You won’t have a big ego, you will just be really curious about businesses and people and want to produce good, solid, campaignable ideas.

The facts:

This agency has a proven method or approach for understanding large businesses. You will be happy to adopt an existing philosophy/approach and develop it as necessary.

This is a senior client-facing role and you need self-conviction and gravitas.

You’ll be:

Able to present and inspire at a senior level.

Senior client facing and love presenting at board level

Inspirational, engaging, rigorous

Salary: circa £60k-£80k, depending on experience