Senior Brand / Graphic Designer
Blackbullion, United Kingdom

Blackbullion is an award-winning fintech (and edtech) company on a mission to make the world money smart. Our platform is filled with practical financial education and sources of additional funding - to help young people develop their money skills, maximise their opportunities and start growing their financial wellbeing.

We’re on the lookout for individuals to join our team who are as excited as we are to help build a platform that financially empowers future generations. We hire problem solvers who want to make a dent in the world and we give them the autonomy, trust and resources they need to succeed and be awesome.

Over the past 5 years we built a strong community of partner universities in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, with over 1 million students able to access Blackbullion platform for free through their university licence.

This is an exciting time to be joining the team as we are expanding our product from the EdTech to FinTech space. We are looking for a Senior Brand / Graphic Designer to join our design team and to elevate the look of the Blackbullion brand and art direction as we expand our product into new directions.

Design at Blackbullion acts as an internal agency, working closely across the marketing, customer, content and product teams to produce beautiful, meaningful and engaging designs. This role reports to the Head of Design amp; UX, and will act as brand guardian across the business for the visual identity.

• Continually evolving and improving the visual identity of our brand and adapting it to suit different audiences (B2C amp; B2B)
• Supporting the release of new products, features and marketing campaigns including art direction, branding, design of promotional collateral and landing pages.
• Working with the content team and external animation agencies to storyboard and mocking up concepts for our animated online learning content.
• Designing across both digital (website, email design, presentations, social media graphics etc) and offline touchpoints (brochures, reports, flyers, multi-page documents, banners etc).
• Manage design projects taking briefs from other departments, setting and communicating art direction, managing deliverables and deadlines, and providing feedback for other graphic designers and external agencies where needed.
• Maintaining brand guidelines, advocating for their use and making them as useful as possible for the reset of the Blackbullion team and our partners.
• Mentor designers and help them develop their craft

Requirements

We are looking for a Senior Brand / Graphic Designer to join our team with a passion and drive for creating meaningful work, and who is as excited as we are to financially empower future generations!

• You have strong branding skills and design skills, experience developing brand guidelines
• High attention to detail and strong sense of visual aesthetic
• Self-motivated and keen to make an impact in a fast-paced environment
• Are able to take loose requirements from stakeholders to tease out a brief, and then bring your creative vision through to execution
• You have created stunning visuals to promote a digital product
• Know how to create infographics and data-visualisations to tell data-driven visual stories
• Solid working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign) and Figma. Bonus points for animation, email templating and UI design skills
• Previous experience as a full-time in-house or agency designer
• Perhaps you are a senior designer who wants to dip their toes into management, but still wants to get your hands dirty and design day-to-day
• You have excellent communication skills and can present your ideas
• Ability to build productive, high-trust working relationships and work collaboratively across the organisation towards common goals
• You like to work transparently, showing work early and sharing your knowledge and practice with the team
• You are oriented towards learning and growth
• You are keen to experiment and test different creative concepts with our audience
• Able and willing to travel to our London office on a regular basis

Are you excited by our mission and keen to make a positive impact? We would love to hear from you. Please introduce yourself along with:

• Your resume or Linkedin
• Portfolio of your work as a PDF or online case studies

Blackbullion is the award-winning financial education company on a mission to empower students to a better financial future. Recently named one of Europe’s most promising ed-tech companies, our digital learning platform is raising financial education standards across the higher education sector in mult

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