Senior Designer

Inspired Thinking Group (ITG); Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Smart Working with up to 40% from home

Work from abroad up to 90 days a year

Pension scheme

Professional qualifications funding

Employee benefits platform

Job summary

Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Senior Designer. You will drive concept-to-execution across campaigns, social, digital, CRM, content and physical environments, translating brand identity across formats while maintaining distinctive visual expression.

You’ll work with Creative Directors and cross-functional teams, taking ownership of briefs, presenting ideas clearly and responding to direction to raise the creative standard.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a designer within an agency, in-house creative team or similarly fast-moving environment.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating excellent design craft and conceptual thinking.
• Proven experience working with recognised B2C retail or consumer brands.
• Experience designing across multiple channels, including social, digital, CRM, campaigns, print and physical or retail environments.
• Strong social experience, with evidence in your portfolio that you understand social as a creative channel.
• Excellent typography, layout, image-making and visual communication skills.
• Strong Adobe Creative Cloud skills, particularly InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Understanding of motion and moving-image design, and ability to work with motion specialists.
• Ability to take a brief, interrogate it, develop ideas and take the chosen direction through to a highly polished execution.
• Confidence working independently while also thriving as part of a wider creative team.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain the thinking behind your work.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to maintain creative standards across multiple briefs.
• Genuine interest in brands, retail, design, social and contemporary culture.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong creative concepts and design solutions from initial brief through to final execution.
• Create beautifully crafted work with typography, composition, imagery, colour and visual storytelling.
• Work confidently within established brand identities while identifying opportunities to evolve and strengthen their visual expression.
• Translate creative concepts into compelling design across campaigns, social, digital, CRM, content, print and physical/retail environments.
• Bring a strong understanding of social and digital design across platforms, formats and touchpoints.
• Take ownership of briefs and manage your work confidently from concept through to delivery.
• Present and articulate creative thinking clearly in presentations.
• Collaborate with designers, copywriters, Creative Directors, strategists, social teams, producers and other specialists.
• Take creative direction positively and use feedback to improve the work.

Skills

Design craft

Brand experience

Multi-channel design

Social design

Typography & layout

Adobe CC (InDesign)

Motion design

Briefing & execution

Independent work

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Brand & culture interest

Tools

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

The Senior Designer is responsible for creating distinctive, beautifully crafted work across a wide range of customer touchpoints, helping brands show up consistently and effectively wherever their customers encounter them.

This is ahands-on senior design role, combining strong conceptual thinking with excellent creative craft. You'll take briefs from initial idea through to final execution, creating work across campaigns, social, digital, CRM, content, print and physical environments.

You’ll understand how to take a core creative idea or established brand identity and translate it intelligently across different formats and channels, adapting the work to suit the medium without losing what makes the idea or brand distinctive.

Working closely with Creative Directors, copywriters, strategists, social and production teams, you'll play an important role in raising the creative standard of the work. You'll be confident taking ownership of briefs, presenting your thinking and responding constructively to creative direction.

Experience working withwell-known B2C retail or consumer brands is important, alongside a strong understanding of contemporary design, social and culture.

What you'll be doing...

- Design & Creative

• Develop strong creative concepts and design solutions from initial brief through to final execution
• Create beautifully crafted work with a sophisticated understanding oftypography, composition, imagery, colour and visual storytelling
• Work confidently within established brand identities while identifying opportunities to evolve and strengthen their visual expression
• Translate creative concepts into compelling design acrosscampaign, social, digital, CRM, content, print and physical/retail environments

- Social & Digital

• Bring a strong understanding ofsocial and digital design, including how creative needs to behave across different platforms, formats and customer touchpoints
• Design work specifically for social environments rather than simply resizing or adapting campaign assets
• Understand the principles of social-first content, including the importance of pace, format, visual storytelling and platform behaviours
• Take ownership of briefs and manage your work confidently from concept through to delivery
• Present and articulate creative thinking clearly, both verbally and through well-crafted presentations
• Work collaboratively with designers, copywriters, Creative Directors, strategists, social teams, producers and other specialists
• Take creative direction positively and use feedback to make the work stronger
  

The Senior Designer is responsible for creating distinctive, beautifully crafted work across a wide range of customer touchpoints, helping brands show up consistently and effectively wherever their customers encounter them.

This is ahands-on senior design role, combining strong conceptual thinking with excellent creative craft. You'll take briefs from initial idea through to final execution, creating work across campaigns, social, digital, CRM, content, print and physical environments.

You’ll understand how to take a core creative idea or established brand identity and translate it intelligently across different formats and channels, adapting the work to suit the medium without losing what makes the idea or brand distinctive.

Working closely with Creative Directors, copywriters, strategists, social and production teams, you'll play an important role in raising the creative standard of the work. You’ll be confident taking ownership of briefs, presenting your thinking and responding constructively to creative direction.

Experience working withwell-known B2C retail or consumer brands is important, alongside a strong understanding of contemporary design, social and culture.

What you'll be doing...

- Design & Creative

• Develop strong creative concepts and design solutions from initial brief through to final execution
• Create beautifully crafted work with a sophisticated understanding oftypography, composition, imagery, colour and visual storytelling
• Work confidently within established brand identities while identifying opportunities to evolve and strengthen their visual expression
• Translate creative concepts into compelling design acrosscampaign, social, digital, CRM, content, print and physical/retail environments

- Social & Digital

• Bring a strong understanding ofsocial and digital design, including how creative needs to behave across different platforms, formats and customer touchpoints
• Design work specifically for social environments rather than simply resizing or adapting campaign assets
• Understand the principles of social-first content, including the importance of pace, format, visual storytelling and platform behaviours

- Collaboration

• Take ownership of briefs and manage your work confidently from concept through to delivery
• Present and articulate creative thinking clearly, both verbally and through well-crafted presentations
• Work collaboratively with designers, copywriters, Creative Directors, strategists, social teams, producers and other specialists
• Take creative direction positively and use feedback to make the work stronger
  

Requirements

• Significant experience as a designer within an agency, in-house creative team or similarly fast-moving creative environment
• A strong portfolio demonstratingexcellent design craft and conceptual thinking
• Proven experience working withrecognised B2C retail or consumer brands
• Experience designing acrossmultiple channels, including social, digital, CRM, campaigns, print and physical or retail environments
• Strong social experience, with evidence in your portfolio that you understand social as a creative channel, not simply another format for campaign adaptation
• Excellent typography, layout, image-making and visual communication skills
• Strong Adobe Creative Cloud skills, particularlyInDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• An understanding of motion and moving-image design, and the ability to work effectively with motion specialists
• The ability to take a brief, interrogate it, develop ideas and take the chosen direction through to a highly polished execution
• Confidence working independently while also thriving as part of a wider creative team
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain the thinking behind your work
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to maintain creative standards across multiple briefs and deliverables
• A genuine interest inbrands, retail, design, social and contemporary culture

Benefits

Perks at ITG — alongside a competitive salary, here's what you can look forward to:

• Time off that works for you — 25 days' holiday + bank holidays, a paid Wellbeing Day, flexible bank holidays to honour cultural or religious observances, and the option to buy or carry over up to 5 extra days
• Flexibility & lifestyle — Smart Working with up to 40% from home, and after 12 months, the option to work from abroad for up to 90 days a year
• Family & life milestones — Enhanced family friendly leave, 3 extra days for your wedding/honeymoon, and an Employee Assistance Programme whenever you need support
• Financial perks — Pension scheme, Corporate Medical Cash Plan, electric car salary sacrifice scheme, and tax-efficient payroll giving to your favourite charities
• Growth & recognition — Funding for professional qualifications, monthly Employee of the Month awards (£250 bonus), and referral bonuses of up to £1,500
• Community & wellbeing — Regular Wellbeing Workshops, 30+ Wellbeing Champions, a paid Volunteer Day, and an online perks platform with discounts on top brands, days out, and gym memberships
  

We Value Diversity

We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.

We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation, but the wider industry too.

At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet, because we're always stronger together.

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