Creative Designer

Ford Creative; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 days holiday

Hybrid working

Company pension

Team socials

Christmas party

Training & development

Growth potential

Job summary

Ford Creative in Bristol is seeking a brilliant Creative Designer with at least 2 years' experience in a creative or design agency. You’ll work across websites, digital products and brand campaigns, translating ideas into compelling visuals in Figma and beyond.

You'll contribute to a growing client portfolio in sport and beverages, collaborating closely with our small, passionate team to deliver exceptional work with attention to detail and real creative edge.

Qualifications

• 2+ years' experience at a creative or design agency.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating ideas and execution.
• Excellent digital design for websites and branding.
• Proficient in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Understanding of UX across devices.

Responsibilities

• Designing websites and digital experiences in Figma.
• Developing creative concepts and visual ideas for ambitious brands.
• Creating and evolving brand identities.
• Translating brands effectively into digital environments.
• Designing campaigns and communications across digital and physical touchpoints.
• Taking projects from initial idea through to polished final execution.
• Working closely with our Creative Lead, designers, account team and digital partners.
• Presenting and explaining your thinking internally and to clients.
• Getting involved in creative discussions, reviews and brainstorms.

Skills

2+ years experience

Strong portfolio

Figma expert

Branding & identity

Typography & layout

UX awareness

Adobe Creative Cloud

Cross-functional teamwork

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

About Ford Creative

Ford Creative is an independent branding and design agency based in Bristol. We work with ambitious organisations to create brands, campaigns and digital experiences that help them flex, transform and grow.

Our work spans a mix of sectors, with particularly strong experience across sport, horse racing, drinks and purpose-led organisations. We’re a small, collaborative team, which means everyone has a genuine influence on the work we produce and how we do things. We take the work seriously, but try not to take ourselves too seriously.

No layers of unnecessary process. No agency jargon for the sake of it. Just good people trying to make really good work.

The Role

We’re looking for a brilliant Creative Designer to join the team at Ford Creative. You’ll ideally

have at least 2 years’ experience working within a creative or design agency, with a strong

portfolio spanning digital design and branding. Digital experience is particularly important.

We’re looking for someone who is as comfortable designing a website or digital experience

in Figma as they are developing a brand identity or campaign.

A significant amount of the work you’ll be involved with will also be within sport, particularly

horse racing, so experience working with sports brands, rights holders, events or

organisations would be a big advantage. We’re not particularly interested in job titles or

ticking every box. What matters most is that you’re a great designer, full of ideas, care

about the details and can show us work that makes us wish we’d done it.

You’ll work across a broad mix of projects, from initial concepts and brand identities

through to websites, digital products, campaigns and ongoing brand communications.

Digital will be a significant part of the role. You’ll work on websites and digital experiences

from initial thinking and UX through to polished visual design, working closely with our

digital development partners to bring them to life. You’ll also be working on a growing

portfolio of clients within sport and horse racing, alongside established and emerging

brands across drinks and other sectors.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing websites and digital experiences in Figma
• Developing creative concepts and visual ideas for ambitious brands
• Creating and evolving brand identities
• Translating brands effectively into digital environments
• Designing campaigns and communications across digital and physical touchpoints
• Taking projects from initial idea through to polished final execution
• Working closely with our Creative Lead, designers, account team and digital partners
• Presenting and explaining your thinking internally and, increasingly, to clients
• Getting involved in creative discussions, reviews and brainstorms
• Helping us continually push the standard of work coming out of the studio

Essential Skills & Experience

• 2+ years’ experience within a creative or design agency
• A really strong portfolio demonstrating both ideas and execution
• Strong digital design experience, particularly websites and responsive design
• Excellent working knowledge of Figma
• Strong experience across branding and visual identity
• Excellent typography, layout and visual design skills
• A good understanding of UX and how design needs to work across different devices and screen sizes
• A strong understanding of how brands translate across digital and physical touchpoints
• Confidence working within Adobe Creative Cloud
• The ability to take a brief, challenge it where necessary and develop your own creative response
• Strong attention to detail without losing sight of the bigger idea
• The ability to manage your time and work across multiple projects
• A collaborative attitude and willingness to muck in when needed

Particularly interested in

• We’d love to hear from designers who have experience working within sport.
• Experience within horse racing or the wider equestrian world would be particularly relevant given the clients and projects you’ll be working on, but it certainly isn’t essential.
• Experience working with food & beverage, tech, hospitality or lifestyle brands would also be a big plus.
• Motion, animation, content or other complementary creative skills would be very welcome too.

What we’re like

We’re a relatively small team, so this isn’t the sort of role where you’ll disappear into one department doing the same thing every day. You’ll get exposure to different clients, sectors and types of work, and you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to projects from their earliest stages. We’re looking for someone who wants to develop with us, has an opinion, brings ideas to the table and genuinely cares about producing excellent creative work.

The practical stuff

Location: Bristol

Role: Full-time, permanent

Working: Hybrid, with a minimum of 3 days a week in our Bristol studio

Salary: Dependent on experience

The good stuff

• 24 days’ holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible/hybrid working
• Company pension
• Regular team socials
• Christmas party and team events
• Training and development opportunities
• A genuinely varied mix of projects and clients
• Plenty of opportunity to grow your role as Ford Creative grows

And, most importantly, you’ll be joining a friendly team that cares a lot about making brilliant work without creating a load of unnecessary drama around it.