Job title: Senior Designer / Art Director
Reporting to: Design Director
Salary: Subject to experience
Location: Shoreditch office based with flexible working where appropriate
Contact Type: Permanent / Full Time and Freelance
We are looking for an experienced and strategically minded Senior Designer and Art Director to join our team. Bringing a broad range of experience and skills across campaign creative, identity development, events, retail design, shoot creative and branding we are looking for someone who comes brimming with ideas as well as technical skills.
Event, retail and fashion experience would be preferred however the most important thing is a brilliant design and creative mind, eye for detail, a love of youth culture and a solid understanding of brand experience.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Work within an existing team of creatives and designers as a senior member of the team creatively developing multi-faceted design projects
2. Work on campaign creative, setting the creative vision for shoots, image capture, shoot creative and delivery of assets
3. Lead on the development of brand and campaign playbooks, graphical language and identities which could include logo development, brand identity, brand guidelines and full graphic identity creative
4. Work across digital and social campaigns to lead on the development of creative assets, branding and treatments within social content and campaigns
5. Communicate ideas through mood boards and description, showing research to illustrate and develop concepts across still, digital and moving image concepts
6. Build out strategy and ideas into designs, campaign creative, visual concepts and final designs
7. Create &/or check client supplied artwork files, overseeing the print production process and flagging any issues
8. Actively take a role in selling in creative ideas to clients through pitches, meetings, presentations and workshops
9. Lead creatively on campaign shoots and projects as needed
10. Work closely with a broader creative team, production and project managers to deliver outstanding creative solutions
11. Manage Art Workers and freelancers as needed
ABOUT YOU
12. You will have experience working in agencies or in house at a senior level with understanding and experience of working across brand experience, branding and campaigns
13. You will have keen eye and passion for current design trends and culture and how the two come together for our brands
14. You will have a high cultural radar with a finger on the pulse across all areas of art, design, music and culture
15. You will have a desire to drive innovation within the business, creating beautiful & impactful work that strives to make a difference (environmentally and socially)
16. You will be experienced in working with global brands with an understanding of brand strategy / tone of voice
17. You will bring a high level of creativity to tackle varying briefs for ‘Idea generation’ and creative concepts, we are looking for a thinker not just a doer and we love big ideas and are looking for someone who can help us shape projects from concept through to delivery
18. You will bring strong organisational, planning & design project management skills
19. You will have extensive experience to develop campaign graphic and identity across multiple platforms with a solid understanding of the digital and social landscape and Tool Kit experience would be an advantage
20. You will ideally also bring an understanding and knowledge of graphical application within 3D environments and within events and retail
21. You will have experience using keynote and working into shared presentations – pitch experience would be ideal
22. You will have advanced knowledge of the Adobe Suite
23. You will be calm, supportive and organised with meticulous attention to detail
24. You will have strong organisational and communication skills both internally and with clients
25. You will be a team player and collaborator and excel in motivating and positively corralling those around you, we are big fans of team work
26. You will be kind, supportive and fun to work with
27. Must like dogs