Full job descriptionSenior Designer
Canterbury, Kent
Up to £50,000
Kess Recruitment are working with an award-winning Marketing, Media and Design Agency based on the outskirts of Canterbury, we’re looking for a Senior Designer to join the team. It’s a hybrid working role with a focus on exceptional design and creative leadership.
Supporting clients to develop and apply their brand and marketing strategies, you’ll be confident across brand development and graphic design.
Supporting their digital strategies, you’ll support their UX thinking and a brand-aligned UI, from concept ideation and user journey thinking through to wireframes, stylesheets and roll-out.
You’ll be able to balance creative ambition with usability, accessibility and commercial effectiveness, articulating your strategic design thinking across digital, brand and campaign channels.
You’ll have gravitas to inspire and influence the breadth of the team, and clients, approaching projects with thoughtful insights, fresh ideas and creative excellence.
You should be:
*Focussed on creating standout, effective design, collaboratively and ego-free
*Well-versed in bringing big ideas that get people excited
*Organised and have great attention to detail
*Self-motivated and pro-active
*Understanding of the importance of working to the brief and deadlines, taking ownership for your part from end-to-end
*Approachable, with a sunny, optimistic outlook
*An excellent communicator, with a fearless approach to open and honest exchanges, and the ability to influence and affect change
*Understanding of your role in the wider business ambitions of creating better business, by delivering outstanding outputs at every interaction
*Resilient and flexible to adapt as our client’s business’ needs change
Your responsibilities will include:
*Bringing your experience to interpreting briefs to best deliver on the client’s ambitions, with the aim of being the guiding hand behind the team’s consistent, intelligent and strategic design
*Elevating the studio’s breadth of thinking with inspiring wider-world research & insights
*Finding imaginative ways to dazzle the client by exceeding expectations, using your influence and experience to make this happen within budget
*Working with the wider teams to bring alive campaigns, helping to redefine what success looks like for our clients
*Fostering a great working relationship with the wider team, offering a safe pair of hands and a fresh pair of eyes, when projects need a little lift
*Using your diplomatic approach to guide the team around creative output, helping to motivate and challenge them to deliver best-in-class creative
*Be a custodian of best practice process, leading by example with compliance
*Helping to define brand guidelines, ensuring they are fit for purpose
*Driving self-generated learning to be at the forefront of platform developments and innovations, and then sharing this with the wider team
*Showing leadership by approaching challenging projects with resilience, persistence and commitment
*Working with the senior team to resolve any issues quickly and effectively
Your skills:
*Polished knowledge of Figma, Illustrator, Canva and Photoshop, with a curiosity to explore alternative means to extend excellence for our clients (e.g Animate or AfterEffects)
*An excellent eye for layout, typography, illustration, form and style, with a continued desire to push the boundaries of what’s possible
*An understanding of colour & design theory and root this into your thoughtful designs
As the creative centre point part of the team, you should:
*Aim for outstanding – the design studio’s work is the most visual representation of our quality and has the most influence on our reputation
*Be collaborative – through combining creative ideas and shared imagination you can encourage and nurture outstanding output
*Embrace change – you should never be afraid to offer perspective – or ask others theirs. You remain open-minded and flexible, constantly looking for new ways to make stuff happen and make the design better.
*Push for success – you should be resolute and tenacious enough to see things through and continuously push yourself and others to get the best results.
Our client is an agency with a difference dedicated to working with ambitious brands and founders who dare greatly. As a commercially creative agency, they transform and shape businesses into brands and brands into market leaders through strategic thinking, creative clarity, and commercial focus.
On top of the basic pay package there are some excellent benefits on offer:
*A relaxed, ego-free environment where you get to have your say, are listened to and can make a difference, to help make us better at what we do
*31 days holiday (8 bank holidays and 23 days to relax and have fun, which always includes Christmas Eve)
*Ad hoc discretionary extra half-day bonus days off to say thanks for outstanding work
*Birthday lie-in
*£100 health & wellbeing allowance to be spent on anything that makes you feel great
*£200 yearly self-generated learning allowance
*£100 a year subscription allowance, so you get something exciting through your door each month
*£500 recruitment incentive if your direct recommendation leads to a new starter
*£250 annual ’the one’ award, as voted by the team, for the person that best lives our values
*Hybrid working model
*Flexible working hours to fit around childcare, if needed
*5% commission paid to you for any fresh new client business you bring in
*Regular free healthy lunches, breakfast and snacks
*Quarterly feel-good activity as a full team
*Early finish on a Friday
If this role sounds of interest and you would like to find out more about the role and our client please attach a copy of your CV and apply for this position and one of the Team at Kess Recruitment will be in touch for an informal hassle free chat.