Senior Designer

JR United Kingdom; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative agency is seeking a Design Lead to drive and deliver excellence in brand experience. In this pivotal role, you will work closely with a talented team, leveraging your 6+ years of experience and strategic thinking to create innovative design solutions across various platforms. This hybrid role offers a salary between £43,000 and £48,000, alongside excellent benefits including 25 days holiday and a professional development budget.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Life assurance at 4x salary

Health cash plan

Professional development budget of £500

Company reward scheme participation

Various salary sacrifice schemes

Qualifications

• 6+ years’ commercial experience in an agency environment.
• Proven agency experience with excellent creative skills.
• Experience delivering projects from concept to completion.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining world-class creative skills and standards.
• Mentoring junior team members and driving project progress.
• Facilitate client meetings and present project ideas.

Skills

Creative skills

Strategic thinking

Storytelling

Project management

Attention to detail

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

AI integration tools

Job description

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This is a pivotal design role within the studio and you’ll be at the heart of driving and delivering creative excellence. You are a lover of design and thrive on building knockout brand experiences — with brilliant creative ideas, design and craft skills, and smart, clear, rational thinking and processes.

The work is varied and fast paced, from finding the elusive ‘big idea’ to finessing the smallest piece of attention to detail – across branding, visual language, digital design, illustrations, storyboarding and moving image requirements.

Comfortable engaging with the strategic dimension of our work, you’ll be able to get under the skin of clients’ issues and help build out effective solutions.Strong, innovative, strategic and on-brand ideas, storytelling and system thinking.

Working closely with the design team and team members across the agency to bring new ideas, creativity and perspective while delivering effective and cut through design communications for Shaped By and our clients.

This role requires proven agency experience and we’d envisage you having 8 years experience to be able to effectively tackle this role.

What’s expected from you:

• 6+ years’ commercial experience, ideally within an agency environment
• Within the studio you are responsible for maintaining world-class creative skills and standards within your discipline and actively mentoring junior team members
• Confident in taking ownership of workstreams and driving day-to-day progress in collaboration with creative leads, project leads and clients
• Excellent knowledge and hands-on skills with industry tools: Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and a healthy appetite to explore integrating AI into work streams while maintaining a curated human craft
• Experience and confidence in delivering a project from initial concept to completed project, whether that be a digital platform, user experience, campaign activation or artworking for print etc
• Experience and confidence in facilitating and presenting internally and through creative client meetings, with minimal input from your senior team
• You will be great at organising and prioritising yours and others’ workload to deliver creative solutions on time and on budget
• Confident in supporting creative and project leads in identifying needs and relevant talent for work streams at kick off stage as well as during projects
• Must be comfortable working in a demanding, fast-paced environment under tight deadlines
• Excite and inspire people around you – both colleagues and clients – and earn their respect and confidence.

? Please include a cover letter, CV and relevant portfolio of work with your application.

The finer details:

• This is hybrid role only – operating 2 days flexible working and 3 days studio time at Paintworks Bristol
• Working hours Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.30pm,with one hour available for lunch each day.37 ½ hours per week

What’s in it for you:

• Salary of £43-48k pending experience
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas shutdown
• Life assurance at 4x salary
• Health cash plan (taxable benefit)
• Professional development budget of £500 per annum
• Participation in company reward scheme, subject to annual profitability targets and performance
• Various salary sacrifice schemes (tech, cycle to work and EV)