Midweight Graphic Designer

We Are Your Friends; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (Tue-Thu in office)

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Pension auto-enrolment after 3 months

Personal development budget

Guestlist and tickets across clients'

Job summary

We Are Your Friends is a London design agency that builds brands and designs ad campaigns for the live music industry. We make the assets that sells shows, tours, festivals, venues, comedy, & spoken word, for promoters and producers.

The Midweight Graphic Designer role focuses on typography, layout, and campaign identity across digital and print. The role is a craft position, requiring strong type handling and the ability to balance artist and promoter information on a page.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of commercial design experience, agency or in-house.
• Fluent in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to a professional standard.
• A genuinely strong eye for typography and ability to justify design choices.
• Confident with layout, hierarchy and composition across formats.
• Solid understanding of colour theory and how prints differ from on-screen appearances.
• Comfortable across both digital and print, able to move between them in a day.
• Experience of brand and identity work, not just artwork execution.
• Able to present and explain your thinking and turn it around quickly.
• Reliable with deadlines and organized with your own workload.
• Comfortable using AI tools in a production workflow.

Responsibilities

• Designing show and tour campaign artwork across digital and print.
• Poster design from headline tour art through to venue and festival collateral.
• Building out campaigns into full asset suites (socials, OOH, press, print & web).
• Contributing to brand identity work for venues, festivals and promoters.
• Preparing artwork for print and working with printers and media partners on specs.
• Presenting your work to key stakeholders internally and client facing.
• Working to tight deadlines.
• Maintain accurate and up to date timesheets.

Job description

Midweight Graphic Designer

• Location: Central London - hybrid (3 days in the office, 2 from home)
• Contract: Full time, permanent Salary: £36,000 – £44,000 depending on experience
• Reports to: Creative Director
• Start: September - October 2026

About us

We Are Your Friends is a London design agency that builds brands and designs ad campaigns for the live music industry. We make the assets that sells shows, tours, festivals, venues, comedy, & spoken word, for promoters and producers.

Our work goes out fast and it goes out everywhere: social media, OOH, press ads, posters on the underground, & campaign identities that have to hold up from a digital crop to a six-sheet. We're a small startup, which means the work you do here you'll see out in the wild within days of finishing.

The role

On a day to day you'll be taking briefs from the account and creative leads and running them through to delivery across campaign identity, tour artwork, poster design and digital assets.

This is a craft role first. We care most about how you handle type, how you build a layout, and whether you can make an artist's image and a promoter's information co-exist on a page without one championing the other.

What you'll be doing

• Designing show and tour campaign artwork across digital and print
• Poster design from headline tour art through to venue and festival collateral
• Building out campaigns into full asset suites (socials, OOH, press, print & web)
• Contributing to brand identity work for venues, festivals and promoters
• Preparing artwork for print and working with printers and media partners on specs
• Presenting your work to key stakeholders internally and client facing
• Working to tight deadlines
• Maintain accurate and up to date timesheets

What we're looking for

Essential

• 3–5 years' commercial design experience, agency or in-house
• Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite specifically Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to a professional standard
• A genuinely strong eye for typography: you can set type well, and you can say why it works
• Confident with layout, hierarchy and composition across very different formats
• Solid understanding of colour theory and colour management. You know the difference between something that looks good on your screen and something that prints
• Comfortable across both digital and print, and able to move between the two in a day
• Experience of brand and identity work, not just artwork execution
• Able to present and explain your thinking and turn it around quickly
• Reliable with deadlines and organised with your own workload
• Comfortable using AI tools in a production workflow i.e. masking, retouching, upscaling.

Nice to have

• Motion, animation or video editing (After Effects, Premiere)
• Web and digital product design (Figma, Webflow) useful but not expected
• Experience in or around the music, festival or live events industry
• Understanding of print production and artwork specs for outdoor and press

What we offer

• £36,000 – £44,000 depending on experience
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working - 3 days a week in the office (Tue - Thu)
• Pension: auto-enrolment after 3 months, contributions matched up to 5%
• Personal development budget for training, conferences and software
• Guestlist and tickets across our clients' shows (dependant on client approval)