Web Designer

Axon Garside | HubSpot Diamond Partner; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A creative agency in Manchester is seeking a Senior Website Designer to develop exceptional and functional websites. This role offers significant creative freedom, collaboration with diverse teams, and the chance to influence high-profile projects. Ideal candidates will have strong UX/UI understanding and effective communication skills, enhancing their collaborative ability with marketing and design teams.

Benefits

Annual training budget

Hybrid working

Extra days off for volunteering

Cycle to work scheme

22 days holiday plus birthday

Company and team bonus

Qualifications

• A track record designing responsive web designs.
• Strong understanding of UX/UI principles.
• An impressive portfolio of past work.

Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining visually appealing and user-friendly website designs.
• Working on client briefs and presenting ideas to colleagues and clients.
• Collaborating within a team including UX and CRO specialists, developers, and marketers.

Skills

Responsive web design

UX/UI principles

Strong communication

Collaboration

Design software proficiency

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Job description

Senior Website Designer £30,000+ salary and benefits

Are you a creative designer, skilled in the disciplines of designing exceptional and highly functional websites? If you have experience already working in a busy agency environment are looking for your next step, with more creative freedom, more responsibility and the chance to make a big impact, we should talk.

This is a full-time hybrid role, located in Manchester's Northern Quarter, with some work-from-home flexibility. You'll be responsible for creating and maintaining visually appealing and user-friendly website designs, working on client briefs and presenting your ideas to colleagues and clients. Great communication skills and being able to explain your ideas and rational to marketing and non-marketing people will give you the edge in our selection.

Part of a team including a UX and CRO specialist, developers, copywriters, marketers and HubSpot specialists, this is a highly collaborative role. We are looking for candidates who live and breath new design ideas and trends and are hungry for the chance to work with established national international brands and fast-growth investor backed businesses. Although many of our clients have their own brand standards and guidelines, most of our projects demand an ability to evolve these brands and breath new life into them whilst achieving industry-leading user interfaces and high conversion platforms.

Qualifications and Experience

• A track record designing responsive web designs
• Strong understanding of UX/UI principles
• An impressive portfolio of past work
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with design software and tools (e.g., Figma and Adobe Creative Suite)
• Some familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus

Bonus Skills:

Experience designing websites for HubSpot CMS is a definite plus but not essential.

Knowledge of HTML & CSS to better understand development constraints.

Why join us?

People who enjoy a challenge, are eager to learn but also want to shape their own jobs and careers thrive at Axon Garside. Ambition and energy are rewarded with rapid promotion and new opportunities

On top of your salary you'll benefit from;

• Training and support: Access to an annual training budget, personalised development plans, in-house, HubSpot and external training to help you develop your career.
• Hybrid working: Three days in the officebased in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
• Social responsibility: A commitment for our business to play its part in the community with extra days off for volunteering and community work
• Health: Cycle to work scheme with access to mental health and wellbeing support, including counselling, through the BUPA Employee Assistance Programme.
• Work/life balance: 22 days holiday plus your birthday in the first year, increasing by 1 day per year and rising to 27 days (plus bank holidays).
• Company and team bonus after your first twelve months with us

If you’re a website designer with a passion for creating engaging, high-performing digital experiences, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now!

Company Description

Axon Garside is a B2B Website Design, Marketing and CRM, Agency and HubSpot Diamond Partner. We help scaling businesses maximise the potential of HubSpot’s Growth Stack generating and managing more and better quality leads to grow their business.