Web Designer - Essex

Brand Recruitment; Essex; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech start-up is seeking a talented Web Designer to join their marketing and creative team in Essex. In this hands-on role, you will design, build, and maintain engaging digital experiences while collaborating with partners to deliver impactful digital campaigns. The ideal candidate will possess strong visual design skills, a confident command of HTML and CSS, and experience with platforms like WordPress and Joomla. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to shape an entire digital identity in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong visual design ability with Adobe Creative Cloud expertise.
• Confident front-end skills (HTML, CSS, CMS platforms such as WordPress / Joomla).
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently within a small team.

Responsibilities

• Design modern, visually engaging websites, landing pages, and digital assets.
• Create wireframes, mood boards, mock-ups, and high-fidelity layouts.
• Build responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, and CMS platforms.
• Optimise and update existing pages for usability, performance, accessibility, and SEO.
• Collaborate with marketing and creative partners to deliver digital campaigns.

Skills

Visual design ability

HTML

CSS

WordPress

Joomla

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

Overview

Are you a visual storyteller who loves transforming ideas into beautiful, engaging digital experiences? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where your creativity directly shapes a company’s online identity? Do you have extensive experience in HTML, CSS and designing on platforms like WordPress / Joomla? If so, we have a fantastic role for you.

We are working with a rapidly growing start-up in the Greater Cambridge area, operating at the forefront of the current landscape of technology and Innovation, as they seek a talented Web Designer with strong front-end development skills to join the marketing and creative team. This is a hands-on, highly creative role 360-degree design role where you’ll design, build, and maintain the full digital presence of an ambitious, high-growth company.

Responsibilities

• Design modern, visually engaging websites, landing pages, and digital assets
• Create wireframes, mood boards, mock-ups, and high-fidelity layouts
• Build responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, and CMS platforms (WordPress / Joomla)
• Optimise and update existing pages for usability, performance, accessibility, and SEO
• Collaborate with marketing and creative partners to deliver digital campaigns and visual storytelling
• Produce high-quality graphics, animations, and short-form video content
• Manage website operations, including hosting, domains, testing, and quality checks

Essential Experience - Web Designer

• Strong visual design ability with Adobe Creative Cloud expertise
• Confident front-end skills (HTML, CSS, CMS platforms such as WordPress / Joomla)
• Ability to turn concepts into intuitive, high-impact website experiences
• Excellent organisational and communication skills
• Ability to work independently within a small team
• Full UK driving licence & eligibility to work in the UK

A Bonus

• Blender or 3D content experience
• Video or podcast editing skills
• Knowledge of accessibility, SEO, JavaScript, or analytics tools

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape and evolve an entire digital identity within a fast-growing tech start-up environment. You’ll work across disciplines, have real creative ownership, and see your ideas come to life across high-visibility digital channels. As a growing start-up, they’re ideally looking for this role to be based on-site, 5 days a week at their Saffron Walden Office.

If you are interested in the role, you must send us an up-to-date portfolio of your work to accompany your CV, as any decision on interview will be based on a combination of both.

Due to the location of the Essex-based office, this role is commutable from Cambridge, Bishops Stortford, Saffron Walden, Haverhill, Newport, Thaxted, Great Dunmow, Royston and Buntingford.