Senior Designer (maternity cover)

&Smith are on the look out for a super talented Senior Designer to join our team. The role is for an initial 12 months maternity cover – with a view to a potential permanent position when the contract ends. At moment we’re a creative team of 5, working 1 to 2 days a week at our Spitalfields office with the rest of the week at home.

&Smith...

Every day we eat, drink and sleep with brands all over the world. Whether they’re a brand that needs creating, or a brand that needs more creativity, we’re always asking ourselves – ‘What if?’ What if there’s a stone unturned? What if there’s more magic and less logic? What if the ordinary could be extra-ordinary?

What if we could work with you?

Some detail…

– Eating. Drinking. Sleeping. Branding. That’s our thing. We need you to have a good amount of experience in our specialist areas and love them as much as we do.

– We’re currently a team of 5 designers and thinkers with a wider team of strategists, copywriters, developers, illustrators, photographers and videographers that we call upon depending on the needs of the project. As you’ll be covering a senior member of our team, we’re looking for someone with at least 8 years experience in the industry.

– The role sits in between our Creative Partner's (Owners) and our Middleweight/Junior designers. This means you'll be happy working collaboratively under a Partner’s direction, but also act as a trusted second-in-command – leading projects and directing the junior members of the team if the Partner’s are away from their desk.

– Creativity and ideas are a big part of what we do and needs to be a big part of your portfolio too. In your portfolio we want to see how you can bring brands and experiences to life, then make people fall in love with them.

– You’ll need to show you have a high level of experience across all our day-to-day activities. That's usually a mix of branding concepts and strategy, visual identity, packaging, experience ideas, print and digital design implementation, web design, photoshoots and brand film.

– On the practical side, it’s important that you have experience in managing clients and projects from start to finish. You’ll be used to working on and managing multiple projects at the same time, be able to present confidently, and structure/write design presentations. You’ll also be organised enough to support the team in project admin and be used to day-to-day client contact.

– You’ll need to know Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, XD and Photoshop to a very high level. Although we don’t code in-hose it’s important to have a good understanding of how the developers bring our web designs to life too. We’d also love you to know how to make things move (animation or motion design), but it is not essential.

– As a big part of our work is in travel and hospitality, we have a lot of clients dotted across the UK, Europe and further afield. With work varying from discovery trips to photoshoots, we’d need you to be up for travelling and the occasional night away.

A few perks…

– Hybrid working (1-2 days a week in London)

– Flexitime hours

– Wellness afternoons

– Health insurance

– Birthdays off

– New business bonus

– Personal development budget

– 1% of our working days in a year pro bono to nonprofits, social enterprises and small businesses

– 2.5 working days in a year for personal volunteering

– Pension

Some more about & SMITH…

&Smith are a creative agency where ideas – really good ideas – are available to all.

Since forming in 2007, &Smith have earned their stripes as hotel, food and drink specialists. Led by Creative Partners and owners Rachel Smith and Dan Bernstein they’ve a reputation of pushing the creative boundaries within the sector and have quickly become one of the most highly respected and awarded agencies in the UK.

From their studio in London, they have been fortunate to work across a number of high profile global brands. Notable names include Liberty London, Dishoom, Dorchester Collection, Kimpton Restaurants & Hotels, Shake Shack, Carlton Cannes, InterContinental Hotel Group, Four Seasons, Hotel Bel-Air, Blacklock and LUX* Resorts & Hotels.

&Smith’s work has been widely published in books and the international design press. They have received awards from D&AD, European Design Awards, The Brand Impact Awards, ADC Annual Awards, Restaurant and Bar Design Awards, Food and Beverage Design Awards, Transform Awards, Creative Review, Pentawards, The Dieline and Communication Arts to name but a few.

Good Ideas...

We take every chance we can get to use our creative chops for good. We’re in the process of a B-Corp applications so whether we’re helping a restaurant highlight its sustainable sourcing, or a hotel celebrate it’s local community, we make sure it’s done in a way where the impact hits home (and heart). And when we say good ideas are available to all – we mean it. Every year we work pro bono with a charity or social enterprise who could benefit from great creative.