Design Manager

ZipRecruiter; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative studio seeks a Design Manager to join their Edinburgh team, leading visual design initiatives across digital platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for crafting engaging communications, developing brand guidelines, and collaborating with copywriters and the creative team to create innovative solutions. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in digital design, exceptional Mac skills, and a proactive, collaborative attitude.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing across digital platforms.
• Experience in interpreting brand identities and guidelines.
• Proficient in designing for digital channels, including social content.

Responsibilities

• Design visually stunning communications across digital and social media platforms.
• Collaborate with teams to generate creative briefs and review creative work.
• Pitch creative responses to stakeholders and provide routine design support.

Skills

Experience in designing for digital platforms

Brand guideline creation

Designing engaging visual communications

Motion graphics experience

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Creative innovation in digital space

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe After Effects

Job description

Job Description

JJob Title: Design Manager

Location: Tesco IMS Edinburgh

Contract Type: 12 Months FTC

The role

The Design Manager is a crucial part of the Tesco Creative Studio partnership with Tag, working closely with the Ops team.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience in designing across digital platforms - particularly social and content. We are looking for a talented DM capable of designing visual concepts to communicate ideas that inspire, inform or captivate consumers across a wide range of media, with the ability to also deliver full brand guidelines for the new category products for their global markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with Senior Copywriter to refine and generate creative briefs for IMS (Insurance and Money Services) campaigns
• Reviewing creative and feeding back to ensure alignment to brand guidelines and correct interpretation of requirements as set out in briefs
• Sharing creative with team Leads for visibility and builds
• Preparing and pitching creative responses to campaign managers and key stakeholders at Tesco IMS
• Routine hands-on design support when needed to ideate and craft visual execution across relevant comms channels
• Work closely and deputise for the Creative Studio Leads to get to the right briefs that deliver remarkable and innovative ideas
• Design visually stunning communications across digital and social media platforms
• Creative passion to work alongside the creative team to produce strategically sound creative solutions

Skills and Experience Required

● Must have experience of designing engaging and well-crafted visual comms across all digital channels including social content

● Must have experience of designing visual identities

● Experience of design & branding, creating full brand guidelines to work across multiple channels

● Experience designing for moving image - motion graphics & video editing

● Big picture thinking with strong attention to detail

● Must embrace design/ creative innovation in the digital space

● Great communication skills, written & verbal, when it comes to directing or presenting design concepts

● Experience of another highly regulated sector such as Financial Services would be helpful but not mandatory

● Experience in interpreting brand identities and brand guidelines

Personal attributes

● Excellent Mac skills, fully conversant with Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop & After Effects

● Collaborative team player, open minded, transparent and non-political

● Relentlessly curious about people, technology, brands, design and business

● Self-starting, proactive and prepared to put in the hard yards to deliver excellent creative output

● Able to balance a strong point of view with an ability to listen, learn and adapt

● Energised by doing the right thing for our clients; solution and results focused

● Positive, enthusiastic, unflappable

● Strong motivation and drive to succeed

"As an ethical employer, Tag will never ask job applicants to provide private, sensitive information upfront or make offers of employment contingent on financial requests or responsibilities from any candidate. "