Graphic designer with motion graphics specialism

Artful Dog is a small creative agency that produces content and design for clients across a variety of sectors, including healthcare, resources, charity, mining, agriculture and communication. We produce content for print and online channels aimed at internal audiences (employees) and external audiences (customers, members, patients). Print and online channels include magazines, short corporate films and animations, brochures, infographics and factsheets, toolkits and presentations.

The role

We’re looking for a full-time midweight graphics designer with a specialism in motion graphics, to support us in producing and editing animations and films (approx. 1 to 5 minutes in length), and also to create illustrations/graphics, and work on presentations, campaigns and digital and print publications (reports, magazines, marketing collateral). This role will be suited to someone who is 2-5 years into their journey as a designer and is open to learning new things and developing their skills.

No one day will be the same, but you can expect to be creating animations from storyboard to final production, designing graphics and infographics; researching images and illustrations; contributing to magazines and reports; laying out content for leaflets, posters and factsheets; designing presentations; researching new formats or ideas for social media posts. You will be expected to liaise with clients to share ideas, establish/clarify the brief, and respond to any requests and amendments.

Reporting to the creative director, you will be a key member of our creative team, sharing ideas and insight around visually communicating with our clients’ target audiences through new channels and fresh ways of using existing channels.

We will support you in developing your design and client liaison skills, and we can offer training in other relevant fields of our work to help you develop in your role. You will gain a good understanding of the different ways in which organisations communicate with their audiences, and how well-designed content makes a difference in helping companies achieve their goals.

In turn, we are looking for someone who can inspire us and develop our creative offering.

We’re committed to ensuring our workplace is a welcoming and inclusive environment, and we do a lot of diversity, equality and inclusion work with our clients to help them do the same.

We also like to give back. A few members of the team are involved in mentoring schemes, and the company sponsors each employee in adopting an animal of their choice at our local city farm.

Responsibilities of a midweight graphics designer with motion graphics specialism

• You will play a crucial role in delivering animation, motion graphics and editing film projects
• Design content for print and digital channels – ranging from infographics and factsheets to pages in reports and magazines
• Design or revise presentations – turning corporate slide decks into attractive, on-brand presentations
• Produce all visual content in line with clients’ brand guidelines.
• Image research – reviewing stock image libraries for suitable images and illustrations
• Review client feedback and amend creative work accordingly
• Develop your knowledge of our clients’ industries, challenges and trends
• Be a team player – collaborate with the wider creative team during planning and brainstorming sessions for current accounts and new business proposals
• Work with our team’s writers to ensure content is designed according to the clients’ briefs.
• Work on multiple projects at any one time – multi-tasking is a key skill needed in our agency

What we need from you

• A passion for design in all its forms
• Excellent knowledge of After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop
• Excellent design skills (commensurate with experience) – ability to provide creative, engaging and precise work
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail Be able to take a creative brief from concept through to execution
• A creative and curious mind – be prepared to bring ideas to the table, and show that you are keen to learn about our clients’ varied markets and industries
• Ability to quickly form positive working relationships 2-5 years in a creative environment: this will likely be within a creative agency producing business communications, but could be in a corporate in-house creative team

Useful extras

• Knowledge of designing in PowerPoint or Google Slides
• An interest in new and global trends in communicating with internal and external audiences

What we can offer

• An opportunity to develop and learn new skills in a supportive environment
• Experience working in a creative agency with global clients 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• A monthly wellbeing bonus Inclusion in our profit share scheme Opportunity for flexible working
• Our office is located in Oval, south London, and we are currently operating a hybrid working policy – meaning working time is split between home and the office.