Senior Designer

Shaped By Ltd; West of England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + Christmas + Bank Hol

£500 annual training budget

Paid Birthday Off

Group Life & Health Cash Plan

Annual Profit Share

Culture days and off-site events

Job summary

Shaped By is seeking a senior designer to lead and deliver knockout brand experiences across studio disciplines in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

You will mentor junior designers, articulate design rationale, and own end-to-end project delivery from concept through to final execution across brand, print, digital and UX workstreams.

Qualifications

• Strong creative thinking and visual communication capability.
• Ability to lead, mentor and collaborate across teams.
• Experience delivering design across brand, print, digital and UX.

Responsibilities

• Maintain world-class creative standards and mentor juniors.
• Own and delegate workstreams, driving day-to-day progress with leads and clients.
• Source talent needs at kick-off and during projects to meet briefs.
• Present work internally and in client meetings with clarity and rationale.
• Deliver projects from concept to final execution across platforms.

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

Indesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

Acrobat

Figma

Job description

The role

This is a pivotal design role within the studio, it is at the heart of driving and delivering creative excellence. You are a loverof design and building knockout brand experiences — with brilliant creative ideas, amazing design and craft skills, andsmart, clear, rational thinking and processes.Whether delivering a knockout brand, print design, digital /
interactive design or user experience you are confident and able to drive industry leading attention to detail while keeping one eye on the wider objective to deliver results on every aspect of the brief / project and client relationship. You recognise opportunities within a brief to excel and push yourself and others. You welcome new challenges and responsibilities to reach a more successful outcome both individually and as a team.

What’s expected from you

• Within the studio you are responsible for maintaining world-class creative skills and standards within your discipline and actively mentoring junior team members and engaging other team members as required
• Train and mentor junior team members to enable distribution of work, understanding of process, best practice and collaboration with other skills / disciplines
• Confident in taking ownership of, and delegating, workstreams and driving day-to-day progress in collaboration with creative leads, project leads and clients
• 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
• Confident in arranging, facilitating and presenting internally and through creative client meetings, with minimal input from the senior team. Accumulating in successfully taking colleagues and clients on the project journey with you to inform, educate and excite - providing rationale and process
• 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
• You will be great at organising your workload and collaborating with others to enable us to deliver creative solutions on time and on budget
• 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
• Confident in your own abilities and self awareness of your process to explore different avenues and source the best solution for the task at hand.

Your capabilities

• Excellent full working knowledge and experience of Adobe Creative Cloud (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat) and Figma design tools.
• Excellent creative thinking, ideation, visual communication, art direction, storyboarding and visualization skills
• An indepth knowledge of what it means to be a changemaker brand to help lead the conversation for ourselves and our clients
• Able to engage with the strategic dimension of our work, get under the skin of clients’ issues and source relevant solutions
• Good communication and feedback provided to other team members to improve workflow, processes and instil best practice across the agency
• A great listener, keen to understand and meet the needs of the client and the brief
• Able to make smart connections between what’s going on in the world and what we do for our clients
• The desire and ability to push everything you do: your own creative, the boundaries of your ideas or other team members ideas and abilities - avoiding the comfort zone
• Strong, innovative, strategic and on-brand ideas, storytelling and system thinking
• Articulate, confident and assertive in presenting work
• Highly collaborative, able to build strong relationships across every area of the business.

Your attitude

• Hard working, self-motivated, enthusiastic and willing to throw yourself into any task
• Humble, collaborative and receptive to feedback
• Good self awareness, ability to recognise areas for improvement or advise senior team members when support is needed.
• Good understanding and curiosity about possibilities provided by technology, updates and revisions to processes.
• Relentlessly energetic and positive, up for any challenge
• Curious, always hungry to learn, always ready to share and welcome change.
• Never afraid to offer an opinion — or ask others theirs. You have a point of view, but a healthy appetite for other perspectives, opinions and insights.

• 25 days holiday + Christmas + Bank Holidays
• £500 annual training budget
• Paid Birthday Off
• Group Life & Health Cash Plan
• Annual Profit Share
• Our culture days, quarterly charity days, and annual off-site events further underscore our commitment to an environment where our people thrive.

• 25 days holiday + Christmas + Bank Holidays
• £500 annual training budget
• Paid Birthday Off
• Group Life & Health Cash Plan
• Cycle-to-Work / Tech Schemes
• Annual Profit Share
• Our culture days, quarterly charity days, and annual off-site events further underscore our commitment to an environment where our people thrive.

Diversity, inclusion and belonging

At Shaped By, we believe in putting people first and product before profit – it's embedded in our core principles. We're committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is welcome and supported. No matter where you are in your journey with us, we're here to help you grow and succeed.