Description

Key responsibilites:

• Work and meet with clients, producers and or the Creative Lead to determine the scope of a project
• Advocate of best practice, quality, and craft
• Advise on strategies to reach a particular audience
• Determine the message the design should portray
• Create / source images that identify a product or convey a message
• Develop graphics and visual or audio images for product illustrations, logos, and websites
• Select colours, images, text style, and layout
• Present the design to clients or the lead creative
• Incorporate changes recommended by the clients into the final design
• Review designs for errors before printing or publishing

Key skills and experience required

• Excellent Mac skills, fully conversant with Illustrator, XD, InDesign and Photoshop
• Excellent creative crafting skills – ideas, typography, layout, colour, composition, materials etc
• Good knowledge artwork/repro/print/production/finishing processes where necessary
• Knowledge of digital asset production processes
• Proven experience in managing multiple projects at one time
• Ability to realise a design based on a creative brief
• Ability to inspect, clarify and execute a creative brief
• Ability to develop designs and wireframes from scamps
• Familiarity and interest in emerging design trends
• Possessing of a wide design vocabulary and capable of thinking laterally to find solutions to challenges
• Experience working across the whole spectrum of brand centred digital marketing deliverables including web, mobile, email and digital advertising projects
• Experience with inspecting and complying with brand guidelines
• Ability to infer brand guidelines from related design collateral
• Attention to detail and determination to bring craft and quality to your work
• Understanding of the requirements of campaign based web delivery including an understanding of user behaviour, experience with the crafting of effective calls to action and the implementation of user journeys
• Experience working with design principles of animation and moving image
• Very strong user interface and interaction design experience
• Experience working in a fast paced delivery focused environment
• Excellent and pro-active communication skills with the ability to clearly express a viewpoint on a given design challenge
• Ability to accurately predict the time and steps required to solve a problem
• Ability to work closely with other designers in multi-stakeholder projects
• Ability to understand the interaction between design and content in the experience of the user

You will ideally be able to demonstrate

• A portfolio showcasing best practice examples of digital campaigns across social channels
• Excellent knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• In-depth understanding of best practice UX/UI
• Experience of applying a 'mobile first' approach to all digital design projects
• Strong working proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud – Photoshop, Illustrator, XD & InDesign.

 Personal attributes:

• Must instinctively think solutions before channel and have experience of all aspects of the comms mix
• Must be forward thinking and embrace creative and digital innovation
• An industry champion for diversity and inclusion in the workplace and whose working practices is reflective of this mindset
• Great communication skills, both verbal and written
• Must be persuasive and very articulate when it comes to directing or presenting, inspiring confidence and trust in colleagues and clients alike
• Strong creative design and digital art direction skills
• A real passion for creating truly accessible experiences online
• Time management and organisational skills
• Speed and responsiveness in responding to requests from clients and colleagues
• Collaborative team player, open minded, transparent and non-political
• Relentlessly curious about people, technology, brands, design and business
• Self-starting, proactive and prepared to put in the hard yards to deliver excellent creative output
• Able to balance a strong point of view with an ability to listen, learn and adapt
• An infectious willing and enthusiastic demeanour
• Energised by doing the right thing for our clients; solution and results focused
• Positive, enthusiastic, unflappable
• Strong motivation and drive to succeed