Salary: £33,000 to £40,000.00 plus bonuses
Location:
Central London
Basic Hours of Work:
40 hours per week, one year fixed term contract
Are you a designer with strong skills in print and digital, and a passion for brand development? Do you have a keen interest in the biggest issues we all face at a national and global level? Are you a great team player, highly motivated and organised, with a strong creative process? If so, then this might be a great role for you.
To Apply
Please apply by emailing a CV, covering letter and a link to your portfolio website or examples of your work to: [email protected]
Summary of Job
We are looking for a designer for a one-year placement to work as part of our in-house Studio (creative & content production) and Labs (web) teams. The role is a combination of web and print design, with a lot of opportunity to explore and expand skills.
You will need strong experience in digital and print design with a minimum of 4 years in the design industry; to produce a range of outputs including:
- Social content: Working closely with our digital Advocacy team to deliver content for targeted paid social campaigns, and help support our client servicing team in delivery.
- Print design: Producing reports, event collateral and more
- Brand development: Creating visual identities for organisations or shorter lived campaigns.
- Web Design: A good understanding of web design - user needs, defining user flows, creating wireframes and prototypes, designing user interfaces, usability testing, communicating with developers and iterating designs based on user and client feedback.
You will have a strong understanding of the creative parameters for all these different outputs and be able to apply them in response to a brief. You will need to be able to contribute to the creative development of these various outputs working from a brief from clients or colleagues in other teams through to the final product. You will be a smart self-starter who can think on their feet and juggle multiple projects and client requests while keeping a cool head. Previous experience working in an agency would be ideal. The role is client facing at times, so some experience in liaising with clients is essential,
You will be reporting into our Head of Design, but also be able to provide guidance to our junior designers where required, and regularly work with our Creative Lead, digital and integrated account managers across the agency in the delivery of your work.
Required Skills
- Expert skills in digital and print production in Adobe applications, particularly Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop (with experience across other Adobe applications is a bonus).
- Strong brand development experience, able to create new brand identities and concepts right through to fully realised brand guidelines
- Experience of UX and web design, in particular:
- Understanding of user personas and user journeys
- Creating wireframes (in Figma or similar software like XD).
- Bringing together UX and UI insights to create a full site design with attention to responsive web design practices and accessibility guidance.
- Experience in designing user experiences for websites (UX) as well as user interfaces (UI).
- Experiences testing front end code against your design plan, and ability to communicate changes to a development team.
- Ability to work within a team or complete a design briefing independently.
- Ability to contribute to creative development design research, and creative concepts for proposals.
- Experience in managing third-party suppliers (for example printers.)
- Attention to detail: Naturally detail oriented and focussed on maintaining high quality standards.
- Strong interpersonal skills: Whether it’s over the phone, by email or in person, being in a communications agency is all about people. So you need to be approachable, friendly and empathetic, and be able to relate to people on different levels within the agency, and with clients.
- Strong project management abilities, ensuring successful execution of multiple outputs within set timelines.
- Time-keeping: You will often be working to tight deadlines as well as meeting the demands and pressures of your team and clients, so you need to be able to work quickly and efficiently, without compromising on quality.
- Resilience: Working with the clients and major digital channels requires persistence, a level-head and a problem-solving attitude.
- English language fluency: You need to have excellent written and spoken English.
USEFUL SKILLS, but not mandatory;
- Experience in working in After Effects
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS, JS or other coding languages
- Experience with Webflow (web design software) or equivalents
- Experience with content management systems like Wordpress or Drupal
WHAT WE ARE OFFERING
- A competitive base salary with excellent performance-linked bonuses
- Gold-plated sickness benefits and life insurance
- Company-wide bonuses, 2 yearly
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- Private GP, private counselling, eyecare vouchers, well-being service
- 24 days holiday (with the office closing over Christmas, days taken for this max 4)
- Day off for your birthday
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Company pension contributions
- Plenty of scope to develop your career in a fast-growth business
- An opportunity to be seen, heard and counted in your contributions, and not get lost in the noise and tangle of a large corporate business
89up is an equal opportunity employer and positively encourages applications from suitably experienced and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, qualifications, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Business Overview
89up is Europe's first impact agency. We campaign for great causes, build technology, tackle complex problems and inspire action. 89up was founded with a clear mission: to create a powerful integrated communications agency for the world’s most important causes. In the last eight years, we’ve become one of the Financial Times 1,000 fastest growing companies in Europe, twice and won awards for some of the biggest non-profit campaigns around the world.
We are a fully integrated communications agency with four main teams:
- Our Studio team crafts beautiful content including graphic design, animation and live action video
- Our Advocacy, Insights and Mobilisation team delivers data-driven insights for impactful strategies to mobilise audiences
- Labs team builds innovative websites and bespoke advocacy tools to engage consumers and decision-makers
- Our PR team makes sure our campaigns make the headlines.
From freeing political prisoners to taking on the banks who fund the climate crisis, to EU campaigns against fossil fuels to PR campaigns for many of Europe’s biggest charities, to global challenges that excite people the world over, there is genuinely never a dry moment at 89up.
We put a huge emphasis on training and promotions - with promotion and pay reviews twice a year. In 2022 to help combat the impact of inflation we gave a baseline pay increase of 10% across the board with bonuses and promotions on top. Some members of the team have been promoted twice in a single year. You will get a lot of attention from seniors with significant experience helping you to grow in the role. This is a company that is growing quickly, so there’s plenty of room for career development.