Job Opportunity: Senior Designer
last updated 07 October 2024
We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Designer to join The Bright Agency. The Bright Agency is a global agency that nurtures passionate, gifted artists and authors.
As part of a small, dynamic team, you’ll work closely with the CEO and Senior Managers to create high-quality design solutions for branding, style guides and pitch decks for print and digital creative assets.
Your portfolio will show a range of beautifully crafted designs for branding and pitching projects where you have led the work and been involved in conception. It will demonstrate that you are a creative and strategic thinker who loves getting into the design details and has a flair for creating design concepts in a visually effective and engaging way. You will be a team player who is ready to get stuck in and confident in communicating and presenting ideas.
This role will include:
- Internal: Stakeholders Across the agency; CEO, the Board, Marketing and agency management
- External Stakeholders: Print and Design companies and other third parties as required
- Assisting in new business developments such as creating lookbooks for new licensing projects, delivering curated lightboxes, producing client and in-house presentations etc.
- Creating portfolio sheets for trade shows, and liaising with freelancers when producing larger volumes of the portfolio sheets.
- Producing and managing internal assets for corporate and internal branding, agency guidelines etc.
- Creating and implementing deadlines, project goals, expectations and workflows, to ensure a smooth process with on-time delivery.
- Managing procurement of print, large format production, and organising deliveries.
- Curating image libraries and video, artwork and branding assets. Ensuring files are stored and named according to protocols.
Key Deliverables & Responsibilities
- Responsible for the creative execution and delivery of brand vision, style guides and pitch decks.
- Working to brief, budget and deadlines and taking concepts from inception to completion.
- Skilled in creative problem solving with a willingness to take risks and push boundaries but with this willingness grounded in a strong commercial awareness.
- Create and push for the highest standards of work in design and visual communication.
- Find solutions that are creative and support business objectives.
- On top of industry and market trends.
Skills & Qualifications
- Has great experience in branding and building visual narratives and solid experience in designing creative assets for branding, pitch decks and style guides within the Publishing / Licensing / Creative industry.
- Demonstrates strong experience in a previous graphic design role with a focus on branding, gained in environments delivering high quality, innovative and successful creative solutions across a wide variety for print and digital creative assets.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality concepts for branding, pitch decks and style guides.
- Brand-focused designing the best and most effective creative solutions for the agency
- Strong computer literacy, highly proficient in Adobe CS suite including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
- Understanding of design, prepress print processes for the development of concepts and press-ready artwork
- Hands-on graphic design, typography, compositional and technical skills.
- Confident when presenting and pitching ideas to key stakeholders.
- A creative and strategic thinker with good business sense.
- Takes initiative and brings ideas to the table.
- Is reliable, organised, enthusiastic and a team player.
- Is organised, efficient and comfortable adapting across varying budgets and deadlines.
- Able to generate unique and original ideas and to present work at different stages of a project.
- Confidently communicates ideas and responds well to feedback.
- Comfortable to work on their own as well as collaboratively as part of a team. You will be a team player, supporting your team members when required.
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment, is adaptable and is comfortable with change.
- A super strong creative flair, detail-focused but with an eye on the big picture.
- You can take direction and are willing to listen, learn and share ideas with the team.
Qualifications
- 3+ years design experience (ideally within the Publishing / Licensing environment)
- Experience working with small and large clients that mix between corporate, startup and boutique.
- Strong verbal and visual narrative and presentation skills.
- A degree in a design-related field.
Other Skills and Knowledge
- Works well under pressure
- Has a can-do attitude and uses own initiative
- Is open to various types of feedback and flexible enough to accommodate required changes or suggestions
- Able to propose successful design solutions – can think independently / outside the box
- Understands and works well as both: team-player and independent creative depending on the project
Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to michelle@thebrightagency.com inserting Designer in subject line.
Closing Date is 21st October 2024. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.