Creative Designer

Ford Creative; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

Christmas party and team events

Training and development opportunities

Varied mix of projects and clients

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Ford Creative is an independent branding and design agency based in Bristol, specialising in brands, campaigns and digital experiences. The Creative Designer will work across websites, brand identities and campaigns, collaborating with the team to deliver polished outcomes.

The role emphasises digital design, UX thinking and close collaboration with our Creative Lead and partners. Hybrid working, with a minimum in-studio presence, is offered.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating digital design and branding work.
• Experience in a creative or design agency (2+ years).
• Strong visual language and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Design websites and digital experiences using Figma.
• Develop concepts and visual ideas for brands and campaigns.
• Create and evolve brand identities across media.
• Translate brands into digital environments and campaigns.
• Collaborate with lead designers and development partners.

Skills

Brand design

Creative concepting

Typography

UX awareness

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Web design tooling

Job description

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
• 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

• Company pension
• 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.