Senior / Graphic Designer
Boldspace, United Kingdom
Job Description
Boldspace is looking for a Senior / Graphic Designer to play a crucial role within the agency, reporting in to our Design Director within our incredible wider creative team.
The workload will be varied across branding, web design, social and broader advertising as well as Boldspace’s presentation, pitch and marketing efforts. Great design is an essential part of furthering our purpose of making an objective, positive impact by building meaningful brands and creating bold communications. This role will flow out of our brand strategy and inject distinctive impact into our branding, creative advertising and PR.
The ideal candidate will have around 5 years’ experience and bring a true creative spirit to the role, having worked building compelling brand identities and guidelines, designing striking websites and creating beautiful, flawless decks.
A strong portfolio and the ability to come up with varied options in response to a brief, backed with strong creative justifications is essential. We want someone who understands adding and taking away cultural meanings to and from their designs depending on the brief and the strategy. We want someone who wants a challenge, joining an exciting agency doing things differently. We want someone with a viewpoint who is driven, meticulously detail-focused and who can present work passionately, with conviction.
ABOUT BOLDSPACE
Boldspace is a brand value agency. We grow your meaning, your reputation and your worth through brand building, communications and analytics. We take you to your bold space.
We bring together advertising, marketing and PR through a pioneering approach fusing our award-winning proprietary analytics platform BoldLensTM with the finest strategic and creative minds to see more, create better and find the gap.
Since launch, our unique formula of strategy and creativity powered by cutting-edge technology has made an objective, positive impact for over 50 clients, including Post Office, Viceroy, VISA, Fridays, Virgin Limited Edition, Direct Line and Silverstone.
THE ROLE
The successful candidate will cover varied client-facing work as well as overseeing Boldspace’s content and collateral.
Reporting to the Design Director, you'll be a significant contributor to our activity and development as we continue to grow our portfolio. You'll be required to take ownership of creative briefs, sometimes working alone and at other times working as a team to meet internal and client requirements.
Key responsibilities:
- Drive the design standards of the agency with bold, beautiful work
- Lead various client projects across branding, web, social and advertising assets
- Bring a strong understanding of typography, layout, and brand identity principles
- Design a varied range of assets for the agency from pitch documents to social campaigns and development of our own brand.
- Develop creative concepts and produce innovative artwork style guides
- Confidently present design concepts.
- Identify key trends and creative developments inside and outside of the industry.
Requirements
THE ATTRIBUTES WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Adaptability: we want someone that can adapt their style to the brief but ensure all design is both meaningful and striking.
- Attention to detail: fundamentally we want smart people who can provide great thinking and work for our clients. Detail is absolutely crucial in every page of every piece of work.
- Independence: our culture is about getting the job done, it’s not about a 9-5 job in the office. We want people who are flexible and take responsibility and initiative for their own work, development and careers. We trust you to do your job and put in 110% and for that, we provide a culture of ultimate flexibility and trust.
- Communications: you will have strong communication skills with a focus on both intra- and inter-team collaboration.
- Writing: you have the ability to communicate well in writing and will proactively proof work you design where relevant, not just design it, ensuring the final piece of work is the highest standard.
- A creative mindset: we need people who have ideas and are not afraid to share them. People who can think about the problems and challenges our clients face and how we can drive real insight and intelligence that helps them to solve them.
KEY SKILLS:
- Must have a good working knowledge of the Adobe package: Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.
- Self-motivated with the ability to manage your own time extremely well.
- Ability to multi-task and work to deadlines.
- A desire to develop the co