DESIGNER (MID-WEIGHT)
Job Description
About us
We’re a vibrant, creative marketing agency, carrying out exciting, award-winning campaigns for large, global technology companies. Our portfolio of clients include IBM, HPE, HERE Technologies, Autodesk and Ingenico. We actively encourage a healthy work-life balance and offer a great working environment.
Our dynamic team comes from a range of backgrounds – from design to journalism to HR – but we all share a passion for developing and executing exemplary integrated campaigns that delight our clients and drive real results.
We are now looking for an enthusiastic, creative and skilled graphic designer to join our studio to help support the design and development of integrated marketing campaigns. You’ll be someone keen to develop your existing skills by working with senior creative staff on a range of ambitious and innovative projects. Among other things, you will be responsible for helping to come up with creative designs for our digital campaigns and assets so a good understanding of typography, layout and digital formats will be important to help the team produce the best work possible. In return, we will offer you all the support, training, inspiration and encouragement you need to progress in your chosen career.
Here (https://catalysis.co.uk/case-studies/) is our portfolio with some examples of our work.
About the role
No day will be the same but the types of activities that will form part of your job include:
- Contributing to creative meetings and sharing ideas
- Liaising effectively with clients and other team members to produce assets from ideas generation stage right through to final delivery
- Producing attractive and effective user interface designs across the board
- Organising knowledge sharing/inspiration sessions
Key interpersonal/ project management skills
- Ideally you’ll have about four years’ experience working in agency environments as part of design teams
- Experience of leading digital projects and collaborating with developers
- Managing and directing multiple projects simultaneously
- The ability to see projects through from inception to production
- Ability to meet deadlines in a high-pressure environment
- Ability to produce high quality work, regardless of project size
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with stakeholders of all levels (junior and senior / internal and external)
- Excellent organisational skills
- Enthusiasm around design practices, trends, and methods
- A keen interest in modern and cutting-edge technologies
Key technical skills
- Proficient in working with the full Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere
- Visual ideation/creativity
- Good understanding and sense of typography
- Good understanding and sense for color theory
- Good understanding and sense for layout/conversion optimization
- Basic HTML & CSS knowledge (desirable)
- Comfortable working with independent software such as Sketch
and Principle (desirable) - Experience in designing for print (desirable)
Salary: Competitive salary and benefits available to the right candidate depending on experience