Junior Designer

JR United Kingdom; Taunton; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design agency is seeking a Junior Designer to support exciting local and global brands. In this role, you will collaborate closely with experienced designers while honing your skills in social media design. Ideal candidates will have a strong portfolio reflecting their digital design skills and a keen eye for detail, along with a passion for social media.

Benefits

Enhanced maternity and paternity

Cycle-to-work scheme

Flexible hours

Additional day off for your birthday

Access to health services and discounts

Qualifications

• 1+ years in the design industry with a strong portfolio.
• Experience with social and digital design.
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite and Canva.

Responsibilities

• Produce graphic assets for social media feed and stories.
• Contribute to design guidelines and strategic recommendations.
• Design internal presentations and brand documents.

Skills

Attention to detail

Creative concepts

Social media skills

Tools

Adobe Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)

Canva

Job description

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We're a social-first agency helping global brands, household names, and high-growth scale-ups accelerate their business growth.

Our services include Social, Paid, Creative, Influencer and Strategy, across our team of 65+ in Bath, London, New York and Miami!

We’re now looking to grow our Design team with a Junior Designer, as we bring on new, exciting clients and continue to produce outstanding work for existing clients.

First of all, here are some important things…

? Work From Home: We operate a hybrid model where team members come to the office 3 days a week. A lot of our team loves working collaboratively, but they also like the option and balance of working from home.

?️ Benefits Package:

• Enhanced maternity and paternity.
• Collaboration with Bupa & Perkbox grants you access to a spectrum of health services, discounts, benefits, and perks.
• Additional day off for your birthday.
• Kickstart a healthier commute with our cycle-to-work scheme.

? Flexible hours: Some people are early birds, and others like to start later. We allow people to set their own times, with some people starting at 8am and getting to finish up earlier! We trust our team to get their work done on their schedule.

️ We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability status. We want to support diverse and inclusive work environments and are actively looking for people who share our values.

Details about the Role

You are a curious and detail-oriented junior designer seeking a place to grow and develop your skills in bringing social creative concepts to life for exciting local and global brands.

You will work closely with the midweight designer to support the design direction of projects and have the opportunity to learn from the creative director. A keen eye for detail and a love of social media are essential for this role, as is the ability to juggle multiple projects and deadlines effectively.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the graphic designer for clients, producing assets for organic social for feed and story posts to drive engagement, and performance-driven statics for paid social creative.
• Support in shaping the look & feel and design guidelines for our clients.
• Contribute strategic recommendations to optimise our content ideas and designs, to continuously improve and push the boundaries of our design delivery.
• Support our New Business team in presentation design.
• Create mockups to showcase our capabilities for pitches.
• Design and prepare internal presentations and brand documents.
• Nice to have: A desire to learn other skills, such as art direction or motion design, to broaden your design capabilities, is also desirable.

The selected candidate will report to our Midweight Graphic Designer, who will be there to support your day-to-day work, nurture your skillset as a designer and work with you on strategic projects.

Requirements

Experience and Knowledge

• A minimum of 1+ years in industry, with a strong design portfolio that showcases your best social and digital design skills.
• Strong experience within the Adobe Suite, specifically InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, as well as experience with Canva.
• A good understanding of design principles, such as colour theory, typography, design layout, composition and user experience.

£26,000 to £30,000 depending on experience.

Interested? Apply directly to this LinkedIn ad and ensure your portfolio is linked on your CV.