Middleweight Designer (Sabbatical Cover Mar-May 2025)

Polar; Essex; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An award-winning creative agency in Chelmsford is seeking a Middleweight Designer for a 2-month contract to cover a sabbatical. The role involves collaborating on diverse design challenges. Ideal candidates have strong digital design skills, agency experience, and proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite. This office-based position offers creative freedom in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of agency or design experience.
• Strong digital design skills with an eye for layout.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate ideas.
• Openness to feedback and a growth mindset.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the team on design challenges.
• Deliver high-quality work on time under pressure.

Skills

Agency or design experience

Digital design skills

Understanding of Adobe Creative Suite

Motion and animation skills

Tools

Figma

Job description

Overview

Polar is looking for a Middleweight Designer to join their team in Essex.

We’re on the lookout for a passionate and motivated Middleweight Designer to join us on a short-term contract. If you love creating impactful, strategically-driven designs, this could be the perfect role for you.

This is a 2-month contract covering one of our designers while they enjoy a sabbatical, running from mid-March to mid-May 2025. During this time, you’ll collaborate closely with our team to tackle exciting design challenges and deliver exceptional work for a mix of brands and organisations, both big and small.

We’re a fast-paced, versatile studio that delivers on everything from brand identities to creative campaigns, pixel-perfect websites, and everything in between. To thrive here, you’ll need to hit the ground running and be adaptable in your day-to-day delivery.

Please note: This is an office-based role at our studio in Chelmsford, Essex.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll be someone with:

• Agency or design experience (around 3+ years is ideal)
• Strong digital design skills with an eye for layout
• A solid understanding of Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
• The ability to thrive under pressure, delivering high-quality work on time
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain and articulate your ideas
• An openness to feedback and a growth mindset
• Bonus Points: Motion and animation skills

Beyond your technical know-how, we’re looking for someone who’s:

• Friendly, approachable, and a true team player
• Curious and always eager to learn
• Confident and creative, with a knack for generating original ideas
• Proactive, self-motivated, and ready to take the initiative
• Equipped with a good sense of humor (we don’t take ourselves too seriously)

About us

We’re an award winning creative agency – born and bred in Chelmsford. We work with brands big and small, local and overseas. What matters to us is passion, purpose, agility and ambition. We’re a small, tight knit team that strives to collaborate. We’re open structured, valuing everyone’s opinion and creative input equally.

How to apply

If your talent comes without ego, you play well with others and you think you’re the right fit, email your CV and Portfolio to [e-mail]. Oh, and don’t be afraid to be creative with your application.

Please note this is a Studio based role at our office in Chelmsford, Essex.

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