Graphic Designer - Midweight

Havas Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative agency in London seeks a mid-level designer to deliver impactful and culturally meaningful design for top brands. The role involves collaboration with creatives, generating ideas, and overseeing junior team members. Candidates should possess strong knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite, with a focus on creative leadership and attention to detail. This permanent position offers a dynamic environment at the intersection of entertainment and design.

Qualifications

• Experience in design across multiple formats, both online and offline.
• Strong knowledge of creative tools and the ability to inspire others.
• Ability to lead and mentor junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Ensure design output is creatively excellent and pixel perfect.
• Collaborate with teams to develop boundary-pushing concepts.
• Take ownership of projects and maintain strategic soundness in work.

Skills

Creative design

Presentation skills

Attention to detail

Collaboration

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Photoshop

InDesign

Illustrator

Job description

Agency

Havas Play

Job Description

This is Havas Play. We help brands play meaningfully in culture, creating branded entertainment and experiences that people want to spend time with.

In the spaces and places that really matter to them, like music, sport, gaming, TV, film and fashion.

We live it, breathe it and believe in the power of culture to drive brand and business growth.

We work with some of the most well‑known brands and rights holders across sport and entertainment, including: HSBC, Pokemon, Adobe, BBC, Bethesda, Aston Martin F1, Commonwealth Games England, EE (BAFTA, Team Excel & Wembley), Jaguar Land Rover (Rugby World Cup 21/23), JBL, Montirex, Magic: The Gathering, Major League Baseball, The FA and World Rugby.

Our services and capabilities are delivered by an in‑house team, with expertise covering sponsorship identification, management and activation; social media 360 services, live & digital experience; influencer & creator marketing; media partnerships and branded content & production, enabling us to create and deliver truly 360, integrated campaigns whatever the brief.

Our work has been recognised at some of the most highly regarded awards shows in our industry, including: The Football Business Awards, Creative Circle, The Sports Business Awards and The Campaign Experience Awards.

Role Summary

To be responsible for creative excellence and provide best‑in‑class, impactful and culturally meaningful design and art direction for Havas Play’s portfolio of clients.

You’ll be joining an agency that helps brands get ahead of the game at the intersection of entertainment, sport, technology and fandom.

Purpose of Role

In this role you will use your technical skills and creative flair to help develop on brief ideas and campaigns. Reporting into the ACD/CD, you will collaborate with other creatives and account teams to create boundary‑pushing solutions for the client. The work will be incredibly varied, and multi‑format; from print and social to OOH and event experience concepting and branding.

You’ll generate ideas, spot them in others, harness it in all of us, inspire our clients and our team, and create best in class executional work across a broad range of campaigns.

As a mid‑level member of the team you will be responsible for growing the skill set of junior team members; ensuring they are well briefed and working to your exacting standards, as well as pushing the other members of the team.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Quality

• Work with the CDs, Senior Designers and other team members to ensure your design output is creatively excellent.
• Ensure your design strategy and concepts are well thought through and inspiring – and your design work is pixel perfect.
• Be confident in presenting your work to senior team members and work with them to iterate your work through to finished product.
• Be well‑versed in using Photoshop and/or AI to mock up creative concepts and ideas, helping the wider team turn ideas into visuals to sell in work.

Technical Ability

• Consistent ability to deliver across multiple formats – both online and offline.
• Obsessive attention to detail, with a strong understanding of design layout principles, typography and visual/content information architecture.
• Strong knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite, with a focus on Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator. An interest in new creative tools and AI to support design.

Creative Leadership

• Take ownership of projects and work with your client teams to deliver work that is strategically sound and creatively excellent.
• Develop a positive and productive working relationship with all agency teams.
• Challenge other creatives with your concepts and push the brief as far as you think you can take it, whilst ensuring all concepts are solution‑oriented and respectful to the project in hand.
• When you’re not on a specific client project, demonstrate a pro‑active approach to new concepts or ideas that will keep the accounts of the agency moving forward.

Contract Type

Permanent

Equal Opportunity Employment

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.