Senior Designer

Critical Mass; Scotland; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital design firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Designer to create exceptional digital solutions. You will work collaboratively, ensuring that design meets strategic objectives and enhances user experience. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in digital design, proficiency in Figma, and a strong portfolio displaying storytelling abilities. This role requires a minimum of in-office presence for 3 days a week and offers an engaging work environment.

Benefits

Creative work environment

Opportunities for growth

Collaboration with talented teams

Qualifications

• 4-7+ years of working experience in digital design and interactive.
• Strong digital design portfolio showcasing storytelling abilities.
• Ability to articulate creative ideas.

Responsibilities

• Design digital solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
• Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience.
• Visualize and verbalize ideas to team and client.

Skills

Digital design

User experience

Visual communication

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

HTML

CSS

Tools

Figma

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

As a Senior Designer focused on visual communication, translating creative concept to well-crafted visual design is your bread and butter. You are an original thinker and a team player—matching strategic direction with appropriate design results across digital experiences. In addition to creativity, keen attention to detail makes your work stellar.

You Will

• Design digital solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives, and deliver a high level of design craft
• Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience.
• Rationalize solutions to project teams and clients.
• Balance creative with client business requirements.
• Design mood boards, storyboards,digital page layouts,for multiple breakpoints including desktop, tablet and mobile
• Work within, maintain, and evolve existing client design systems
• Source photo assets to support visual design, retouchingand enhancing as needed
• Provide quality assurance on creative deliverables.
• Build and maintain a rapport with creative team, account managers, and project managers.
• Visualize and verbalize ideas to team and client.

You Have

• 4-7+ years of working experience in digital design and interactive.
• Strong digital design portfolio showcasing storytelling abilities through thoughtfully designed case studies.
• Developed and diverse communication skills.
• Ability to articulate creative ideas.
• Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.
• A solid working knowledge of the latest versions of Mac OS
• Expertise and proficiency designing in Figma and leveraging its capabilities for visual design solutioning, from managing design tokens and variables, to maintaining Figma libraries and client design systems.
• Familiar and experience working within the Adobe creative toolset: including Illustrator and Photoshop
• including file organization, and preparation of pixel-perfect files for design team use.
• An understanding of the relationship between the UX and creative disciplines, as well as the role of information architecture andhierarchy in both
• The skillset required to bring static design to life through interactive demos and extensive prototyping, primarily in Figma, to convey preferred states, nuanced motion, and/or behaviors for interactive concepts.
• Strong understanding of web development, including HTML, CSS, iOS, and other technologies.
• Comprehensive understanding of interactivity and the Web.
• Illustration in both electronic and traditional media.
• Proficiency across the Adobe Creative Suite, with a strong focus on efficiency and versatility.
• Experience in sourcing and creating visual assets, illustrations, and photo enhancement to retouching and generative tools like Adobe Firefly: to bring concepts to life with precision and creativity.

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.

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