Job Description

Works directly with Design Director and/or Creative Director and takes an active lead in projects to develop compelling brand identities and designs. Is instrumental in driving creative work forward, while leading, supporting and mentoring more junior members of the design team. Possesses excellent conceptual and presentation skills, captivating and engaging clients.

Responsibilities

Creative Input

● Develops design concepts from initial research right through to execution

● Is responsible for the creation of presentation standard visuals

● Takes responsibility for creative development on projects, ensuring creative output answers the brief.

● Presents concepts internally and is involved directly in client facing meetings, to present creative work or to support Design Directors and Creative Directors in design conversations.

● Drives forward work for delivery and ensuring output is of the highest quality and has impeccable attention to detail

● Confident handling production and implementation as well as managing production partners and performing quality control

● Manages and briefs work to third party partners (both print and digital outputs)

Team Collaboration + Leadership

● Leads project teams, working directly with mid-weight, juniors and interns to ensure tasks are evenly distributed and priorities are established

● Reports to design directors and creative directors and presents ideas and developments at key check-in stages

● Fosters a positive and collaborative work environment with other team members and other departments; understands requirements and contributes to the overall creative process.

● Inspires, educates and supports junior team members along the journey of a project.

Skills

● Highly proficient in design software (Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator (and Figma)), in order to execute projects in the most efficient manner.

● Ability to translate sketches into refined executions of ideas, through to artwork stage.

● Continuously develops presentation skills.

● Confident preparing files for the production team

● Strong understanding of typography and layout

● Strong understanding of design for digital output

● Strong sense of art direction for photography and film is a bonus

Administration

● Adheres to filing protocol, weekly submission of timesheets and refers to the studio schedule to effectively plan workload and priorities between the team members.

Construct communication

Contributes to internal comms (credentials, developing case studies, social assets) as required, to support the business

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Design 7+ years of relevant experience
Excellent leadership and communication skills
Proficiency in Adobe, InDesign, Illustrator

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