Art designer - Mid weight, social focus
MATCHESFASHION, United Kingdom
Job Description
At MATCHESFASHION we are on a mission to offer the most personal luxury shopping experience in the world. We are renowned and respected for the relationships we build with clients and our brand partnerships. To achieve our ambition, we capitalise on our unique combination of technical savviness and global innovation mixed with curated content.
MORE ABOUT US
We bring together a modern edit of over 700 established and new generation designers. Founded over 30 years ago as a brick-and-mortar store, we transitioned online in 2012. In 2017, APAX Partners acquired a majority stake in MATCHESFASHION, fueling our expansion.
We now ship to 176 countries, have over 70 million site visits and 95% of our sales are online with the majority of sales made internationally.
We have a global website, mobile apps, retail stores, private shopping, VIP events and 24/7 customer care and MyStylist teams. We have offices in the UK and Hong Kong. In London, our head office is based in The Shard, our brand-new creative hub is in Here East and last year we launched No.5 Carlos Place, a completely new retail concept combining digital and physical interaction.
We lead the way, moving our industry forward, and we are always looking for talented individuals to come in and inspire the world with us.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Diversity and Inclusion is a priority for MATCHESFASHION we delight customers around the world and so it’s important that our team represents our customers.
We want to attract the very best talent and create an inclusive environment that celebrates the diversity of our people and enables them to do the best work of their careers. We recognise the world is not a perfect place and that bias exists, which is why we take a focused approach in this area and are committed to ensuring that all our people processes are equitable.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.
THE ROLE:
- Produce original, social-focused concepts and solutions that are multi-faceted and incorporate all the elements of a great user experience while maintaining our house styles and brand objectives.
- Create content and design treatments that effectively communicate reactive concepts and our brand identity to our 2M plus social following.
- Liaise with all members within the Brand and Content department (predominantly social) when answering a brief to ensure consistency with all other MATCHESFASHION output.
- Generate and update social franchise templates and work with the social team to create a simple and clear delivery plan to ensure content-wide consistency.
- Maintain a close watch on social developments. New trends, styles and mechanics to ensure that MATCHESFASHION is delivering exciting platform specific content.
- Be a social first advocate, understand how to translate briefs to these channels and speak up for what you know will deliver engagement and drive the MATCHESFASHION brand forward.
- Create inspiring mood boards for achievable, relevant still life photo shoots.
- Additionally, you will be required to design and produce layouts for online and offline to support our BAU design workload adhering to responsive templates when necessary, with an ability to enhance and refresh designs as needed. Making sure all artwork is to a high standard and delivered on time.
Requirements
- Proven experience in digital design visible through a portfolio you will share on application.
- A keen interest in the owned social channels of MATCHESFASHION.
- An even keener interest in evolving those channels and highlighting new opportunities.
- A love of social culture and new digital technologies. Think Memes, Gifs, NFT’s and beyond.
- Strong understanding of typography, colour and layout.
- High proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite, alongside SKETCH and any other relevant software.
- A pro-active attitude with an ability to show initiative and generate ideas to constantly improve our channels.
- A communicative and collaborative approach. We want to work with a team player who loves to share inspiring ideas with the rest of the creative team members.
- Knowledge and structural understanding of HTML and CSS processes is a plus.
- Knowledge and structural understanding of any 3D software / SPARK AR is a plus.
- Ability to work to tight, reactive deadlines.