Designer

Host Student Housing Limited; London, Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking design studio that thrives on creativity and innovation. As a designer, you will be part of a collaborative team dedicated to solving complex problems and delivering exceptional design solutions. Your role will involve supporting the design team, contributing to workshops, and pushing creative boundaries. With a commitment to diversity and inclusivity, this studio offers a supportive environment where your skills can flourish. Enjoy a generous benefits package, including private medical insurance, enhanced pension contributions, and ample annual leave to recharge. If you’re passionate about design and want to make a real impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Group Life Assurance

Income Protection

Enhanced Pension

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work

Gender-Neutral Parental Leave

25 Days Annual Leave

3 Day Christmas Shutdown

8 Bank Holidays

Qualifications

• Experience in concept design and digital projects.
• Familiarity with design thinking and various design disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and solve problems creatively for client needs.
• Inspire and support the design team in delivering solutions.

Skills

Design Thinking

Illustrator

Figma

Photoshop

Indesign

Premiere

After Effects

UX/UI Design

Prototyping

Video Editing

Job description

Please note: We are not currently recruiting for this role but we anticipate that we will be soon. Clicking 'Apply for this job' will register your interest in future Design vacancies.

About Magnetic

Magnetic is the UK’s largest independent innovation and digital design studio. We have studios in London and Manchester.

We solve problems and unlock potential for organisations. We help them change and innovate at pace. We work alongside clients to create products, services and strategies, enabling them to transform themselves and thrive in a changing world.

Most Magnetic Designers share a common base of skills. They include visual design, Design Thinking, prototyping and the drive to make things happen. More senior people within the organisation bring skills around leadership, coaching, business development, and client empathy.

We work with a broad range of organisations across different sectors. Recent clients include Bupa, National Grid, Mars Wrigley, Innovate UK, Google, Fulham Football Club and Save The Children.

We’re particularly proud of recent work we’ve done around helping organisations make sense of the future of work, embedding Net Zero in large organisations, creating sustainable business models in the media, driving innovation in engineering companies, building purpose and growth in the third sector and creating life-enhancing health tech products for hard-to-reach communities.

We’ve hired lifetime Designer’s, people making career changes from industry specialism, and everything in between. We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace - a place where we can all be ourselves. We offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements.

What will you be doing?

As a member of our design team, you will have good people skills and can help us build a strong design team culture within the business. You will:

• Come up with innovative ideas, solve problems creatively and shape these into logical, coherent solutions that centre around our clients' needs.
• Support the design team in setting, communicating and delivering meaningful and exciting design solutions.
• Inspire and work with the team, to push their creative, innovative solutions further.
• Help our team improve their thinking and processes to demonstrate our design capability, quality and efficacy.
• Attend, contribute and/or facilitate client workshops - helping interrogate problems, provoke discussion and surface possible solutions to take forward.
• Senior roles will also coach, mentor and develop colleagues to improve their hard and soft skills and inspire them to new creative heights.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for Designers with sufficient experience in concept design who are able to support or lead on digital projects and are efficient in the following:

• Experienced in design thinking, we are looking for someone who is familiar with and has used this process.
• An expert in software & hard skills (Illustrator, Figma, Photoshop, Indesign, Premiere, After Effects). Senior Designers have the ability to coach and develop the other designers’ abilities in this area.
• A well-rounded designer capable of turning your hand to a variety of design disciplines – graphic, UX/UI, prototyping, service design, and video editing.
• A problem solver who can bring to life ideas that challenge the ordinary, together with the drive to create concepts and prototypes.
• Able to help us showcase our design work through storytelling and case studies.
• Excellent communication and strong self-organisational skills.

What we offer

We make sure our team is well looked after with generous salaries and a great benefits package which includes:

• Private Medical Insurance including optical cover.
• Group Life Assurance.
• Income protection.
• Enhanced pension with employer contribution of up to 4% of your salary.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Cycle to work.
• Gender-neutral parental leave.

In addition, to ensure that everyone has enough time to rest and recharge we give all our employees:

• 25 days annual leave per calendar year (increasing by a day for every two years served).
• 3 day Christmas shutdown period.
• 8 bank holidays (please note these can be repurposed in line with your religious beliefs).

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace - a place where we can all be ourselves. We offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements.