Senior Graphic Designer
Job Description
An award-winning retail design agency who partners with leading brands are looking for a Senior Graphic Designer to join their multidisciplinary design and strategy team. You will be working with a diverse range of exciting brands across culture, fashion, sports and technology. Your work will include brand/campaign design as well as developing beautifully communicated retail/experiential journeys; including digital and physical interactions. Your work will come to life across still and motion formats.
Your Role & Responsibilities
Demonstrate strong industry knowledge and expertise. Work closely with our Design Directors and Creative Director to deliver our human-centric proposition. Maintains consistently high-quality design standards on all leading projects. Uses multi-faceted experience to inspire and develop junior team members design-led approach.
Works closely with Design Director to ensure clear design direction on leading projects while supporting more junior members of the team to maintain a consistent standard of design. Manages external creative resources i.e. freelance design to match agency standards. Proactively provides recommendations to further enhance creative output. Owns and delivers design process from concept to completion in collaboration with project managers.
Attends/inputs into creative briefs and plays a key role in leading ideation and brainstorm sessions. Supports the DD to drive creative inspiration, innovation and ensures that all work meets our human centric ambitions. Delivers strong design presentations with compelling narratives to clients. Supports DD in creating design estimates for Project Managers to share back with clients.
Works alongside strategists to implement our existing human-centric design approach, whilst recommending future opportunities to continue developing the agency’s forward-thinking approach.
Desired skills and experience
- 7+ years experience designing for various channels across digital and print ideally within fashion, beauty and tech.
- Ability to drive the creative process from concept direction through to delivery.
- Collaboration with Senior design team to ensure we stay true to project vision/direction.
- Strong collaboration with projects team to ensure delivery within timeframes and budget.
- Experience in leading a mid-weight/junior team on multiple briefs.
- Experience building brand identity systems across clients within various industries.
- Top flight delivery across branding, motion design and typography.
- Proficient in Adobe package including After Effects.
BONUS
- Experience/interest in 3D animation & generative design would be a bonus.
- Shoot experience across art direction and production.
In addition, the candidate must be:
- Highly motivated with a culturally relevant approach.
- Open minded and willing to adapt to, and absorb company work methods whilst being eager and motivated in helping to improve standards as a team.
- Creative and quality driven.
- Ambitious and empowered, using this opportunity for personal development and to shape the way the agency grows.
- A self-starter capable of working within a team and independently able to work under pressure and deliver on tight deadlines.
Location:
- Candidate will operate from the London, Shoreditch office.
- Our current flexible working is Mondays and Fridays at home, Tuesday-Thursday in the office.
- Holiday – 24 days (with an additional 2 days gifted at Christmas (discretionary)
Additional Company Benefits:
- 8% pension contribution (3% from Seen Studios)
- Private Health insurance- Opt in (after 3 months settling in period)
- Holiday increases with service, 1 day after 2 years and an additional day after 3 years
- Office hours 09:00-17:30. Flexible working can be discussed.
- Death in service (4 times salary)
- Quarterly team outings, Thursday drinks, Summer and Christmas Parties as part of Captivate group
- Company holiday - Agency performance dependent
- Discretionary spot bonuses
- New sneakers on passing probation
- Mentor scheme with Captivate group
- New business incentive bonus scheme
- Access to PLUMM mental wellbeing app
- Access to Skill Share training programme