Creative Junior Partner

Open Partners; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Open Partners in Manchester is seeking a versatile designer who loves pushing design boundaries and experimenting with cutting edge tools. This role is hybrid with in-office collaboration days as needed.

You’ll combine visual craft with agile production workflows and a next-gen AI-enabled creative tech stack to deliver high-quality, brand-aligned outputs for diverse campaigns. The position is full-time and based in Manchester.

Qualifications

• Multidisciplinary design across graphic design, editing, motion design and visual storytelling.
• Growing familiarity with AI tools and generative software in creative work.
• Strong eye for visual design across social platforms and digital channels.
• Ability to translate briefs into strong visual concepts and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Guarantee high visual standards across static, motion and digital outputs.
• Seamlessly flex across brand identity design, social-first assets, performance creative, pitches and rich media production.
• Pair design craft with an AI-enabled creative tech stack to speed up production while maintaining quality.
• Engineer deliverables to maximise audience engagement and client conversion benchmarks.
• Collaborate with Media, Creative and Data specialists to turn strategy into high-performing creative work.
• Experiment with new visual formats, animation techniques and creative products to stay ahead.

Skills

Multidisciplinary Design & Motion

Co-Intelligent Mindset

Platform & Format Knowledge

Strategic & Aesthetic Thinking

Collaborative Problem-Solving

Tools

Generative tools

Job description

Location: Manchester & Hybrid (with in-office collaborative days as needed)

Type: Full-Time (5 days per week)

The Opportunity

Are you a versatile designer who loves pushing design boundaries and experimenting with cutting edge tools?

Your Role & Responsibilities

You’ll combine visual craft, agile execution and next-gen production workflows to keep our creative output top tier:

• Craft & Quality Governance: Guarantee an exceptionally high visual standard across static, motion and digital outputs, sticking closely to brand guidelines and platform specs.
• Versatile Studio Execution: Seamlessly flex across brand identity design, social-first assets, performance creative, pitches and rich media production.
• Co-Intelligent Production: Pair your core design craft with an AI-enabled creative tech stack, using generative tools and smart automation to speed up production without sacrificing quality.
• Performance-Driven Design: Engineer deliverables specifically designed to maximise audience engagement, reach and client conversion benchmarks.
• Cross-Discipline Collaboration: Partner with Media, Creative and Data specialists across the agency to turn strategy into high-performing creative work.
• Creative Innovation: Experiment with new visual formats, animation techniques and creative products to keep agency output ahead of the curve.

What Success Looks Like in 6 Months

• Client & Internal Trust: You’ve built strong, proactive relationships with account leads and clients, becoming a trusted creative problem solver.
• High Craft Performance Delivery: You consistently produce static and motion assets that hit or exceed client performance benchmarks.
• Co-Intelligent Workflows: You actively integrate AI tools and digital automation alongside standard design software to drive real efficiency gains.
• Agile Delivery: You handle multiple concurrent briefs with speed and precision, delivering defect free assets on time and on brief.

What You’ll Bring

• Multidisciplinary Design & Motion Craft: Strong practical skills across graphic design, editing, motion design and visual storytelling.
• Co-Intelligent Mindset: A practical curiosity for using AI tools and generative software alongside traditional creative platforms.
• Platform & Format Knowledge: A strong eye for visual design best practices across social platforms, rich media and digital channels.
• Strategic & Aesthetic Thinking: The ability to translate brief requirements and strategic ideas into strong visual concepts.
• Collaborative Problem-Solving: Great communication skills and a proactive approach to taking on feedback and managing deadlines.

Our Values & Mindset

Skills

At Open Partners, we hire mindset first. If you don’t have direct agency experience but possess a fierce growth mindset and transferable creative skills, we want to hear from you. We hold ourselves to three simple standards:

Smarter: Aim high, train hard, embrace next.

Faster: Learn fast, adapt fast, act fast.

Better: Think, say, and do what’s best.

Open Partners was founded in 2017 to be The Agency of Next. Designed to be constantly focussed on the future, we think ahead for our clients, quickly pivoting them to new areas of opportunity as they arise. Delivering marketing transformations for over 50 clients, Open Partners’ integrated Media, Data and Creative capabilities drive more accountable and effective returns for international performance advertisers. We strive to always be smarter, faster, and better - all the while upholding the very highest standards of commercial and operational integrity.