Midweight Visual Designer (4m FTC)

DEPT®; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private healthcare

Mental health support

26 days paid holiday

Cycle to work

Job summary

DEPT® is seeking a Visual Designer to lead the visual craft across digital and physical touchpoints. You will shape brand systems, art direct concepts, and oversee production from styleframes to final assets. The role blends storytelling with technical execution in a fast-paced, collaborative agency environment.

You will work across brand, experience, and technology projects, contributing to client campaigns and new creative directions while staying curious about AI tools to enhance output.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading visual design across digital and print touchpoints.
• Ability to build scalable brand systems and identity guidelines.
• Strong deck design skills for winning client presentations.
• Attention to production detail: specs, color and file prep.

Responsibilities

• Shape the visual direction from concept to delivery with hands-on art direction.
• Develop scalable brand systems and identity guidelines for multi-channel use.
• Design high-impact pitch decks translating strategies into visuals.
• Collaborate with motion team on storyboards and timelines.
• Manage production for print and digital across platforms.
• Contribute creative ideas rooted in narrative and visual structure.
• Work with designers and creatives to preserve original intent.
• Explore AI tools to support creative workflows.

Skills

Art direction

Brand systems

Deck design

Print & digital production

Storytelling

Collaboration with motion

Creative direction

Layout & typography

Education

Design degree

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

Job Purpose

This role is an FTC running to the end of 2026. DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include EasyJet, eBay, INEOS, Logitech, L’Oréal, Roblox, Walkers and Zalando.

As a Visual Designer, you will lead visual craft across both digital and physical touchpoints - from scalable brand systems and identity to art direction and technical production for print & digital. You bring strong creative direction thinking and high-level execution together to shape concepts from early thinking to final output. You care about story, framing, brand consistency, and asset execution. You push ideas forward while actively involved in the hands‑on work.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Shape the visual direction of projects from concept to delivery through hands‑on art direction and creative framing.


• Build, adapt, and expand scalable brand systems and identity guidelines that work seamlessly across diverse channels and client portfolios.


• Design high‑impact pitch presentation decks that translate complex creative strategies into compelling visual narratives.


• Collaborate with the motion team on storyboards - awareness of motion workflow is a plus.


• Manage technical production for print & digital, taking creative ideas from initial styleframes through to flawless final file delivery across multi‑platform formats.


• Develop strong creative ideas rooted in narrative, pacing, and visual structure.


• Collaborate closely with designers, creatives, and other disciplines to keep work aligned with the original creative intent.


• Interest around AI tools and in learning how they can support creative work.


• Stay curious of new tools, references, and production techniques across print and digital.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Art direction experience showing how you craft the visual story, framing, and narrative direction of a project from concept to pitch.


• Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining scalable brand systems and identity for large‑scale campaigns or growing brands.


• Proven talent for deck design, with a knack for structuring visual stories, pitch decks, and client presentations that win work.


• Strong proficiency in technical production for print & digital, with high attention to detail around file preparation, specs, color management, and production workflows.


• Experience of working in a fast‑paced agency environment.


• A strong portfolio showing concept, craft, brand systems and production quality.

WE OFFER

• A flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location).


• An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies


• Pension, free private healthcare, mental health support, and company sick pay scheme.


• 26 days paid holiday (plus UK Bank Holidays).


• Refreshments are provided in the office all week, as well as drinks at 4 pm on a Thursday.


• Help getting you to work with a season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme.


• Enhanced family friendly policies to support new parents.


• Social and Cultural Events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.


• Inspirational Talks, bringing the outside in with regular guest speakers and events.


• Learning and Development, supporting your growth with continuous opportunities to learn and advance.


• Buddy Programme: You will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help you through your first weeks’ at DEPT®.


• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.


• Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll getthe opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!


• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.


• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

WHY DEPT®

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.