Senior Designer

1 Month ago • All levels • Design

Job Summary

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Designer for our London Design & Production team, offering a 6-month fixed-term contract with potential for extension or permanent placement. The role focuses on clients in the tech and retail sectors. You will join a collaborative team of illustrators, animators, photographers, videographers, coders, and brand builders creating engaging content for major brands. This position requires working with specialists across departments like Insights, Community, and Strategy to deliver social-first campaigns. The ideal candidate is a creative, pixel-loving individual who excels at idea generation and storytelling.
Must have:
  • Lead creative output on up to 3 accounts
  • Produce campaigns and oversee retainer content
  • Develop the design team with extensive knowledge
  • Conceptualize and implement integrated campaigns
  • Lead innovative ideations
  • Deliver campaign and brand development
  • Art direction of social content
  • Hands-on content creation
  • Quality oversight of junior designers' work
  • Stay updated with social platforms and trends
  • Lead and mentor team members
  • Collaborate with client service and community teams
  • Present work and build client relationships
  • Create bold, social-first ideas
  • Shape business development pitches
  • Lead presentations
Good to have:
  • Fostering confidence within the design team
  • Managing and mentoring designers
  • Driving creativity, process, and organization across the agency

Job Details

We are looking for an ambitious Senior Designer to join our London Design & Production team.

Please note, this will be a 6 month FTC with the possibility of an extension or going perm.

You will be focussing on several of our clients across tech and retail.

We are a tight knit team of illustrators & animators, photographers & videographers, coders & brand builders who create thumb-smashing content for some of the biggest brands in the world.

You will work closely with a whole host of departmental specialists, from Insights, to Community, to Strategy to deliver transformational social-first work for our clients. Our Conversational Creative relies on innovation, through a deep knowledge of the latest platform features and production techniques, combined with an acute understanding of what people are talking about and why it's important to them and their communities.

To be a part of the Design & Production team, you must be a pixel loving, idea generating, creative collaborator who likes to tell stories that move.

Responsibilities

You will be tasked with owning and leading the creative output on up to 3 accounts, producing campaigns, overseeing retainer content and developing our team with your impressive design knowledge.

  • Conceptualise, scope in and implement complex integrated campaigns
  • Lead innovative ideations and foster confidence within the design team.
  • Delivering campaign and brand development, overseeing retainer workflow
  • Art direction of social content that uses motion graphics, photography and video
  • Hands-on creation of content through motion graphics and photography
  • Ownership and quality oversight of content outputted by junior members of the team
  • Stay up-to-date with social platforms and industry trends
  • Leading team members, collaborating with client service and community teams
  • Confidently present work and build client relationships
  • Work with community managers, strategists and account teams to create future thinking, bold and social-first ideas.
  • Managing and mentoring designers
  • Contribute and shape business development pitches
  • Lead presentations and encourage other team members to present
  • You will also help drive creativity, process and organisation across the agency and help build the design team to fit your needs.

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