Mid-weight Digital Designer

We're looking for a mid-weight digital designer to join us in creating impact-driven outcomes for people and planet.

• 🕐 Role Type: Part-time (24-30 hrs per week)
• 📍 Location: Remote
• 💷 Salary: £28k-£32k pro-rata (based on experience)

Who We Are

Driftime® are an ethical digital design practice for the mavericks of today, solving the challenges of tomorrow. We work at the intersection of purpose and intention, teaming up with brands in existing and emerging markets to craft stories and digital eco-systems that impact social, environmental and economic standards.

Snapshot

• Great company culture and a strong set of values that focus on people and planet driven outcomes.
• Shortlisted as one of the Best Small Agencies to Work for by UK Company Culture Awards.
• We're B Corp certified. A new kind of business that balances purpose and profit.
• We donate 1% or more of our annual turnover through 1% Percent for the Planet as Business Members.
• We're part of the 'Better Business Act' where we join hundreds of companies with a mission to change UK law and make sure every single company in the UK put balancing people, profit and planet at the heart of their purpose.
• We’re co-instigators of Design Declares, a growing group of designers, design studios, agencies and institutions here to declare a climate and ecological emergency.
• We are a Living Wage employer, ensuring a fair and competitive wage.
• We work with impact driven partners, aiming for impact driven results.
• We apply humane design principles, empowering people (not users) to make better decisions through design.
• We don't believe in line managers or hierarchy, so our company structure is relatively flat.
• We give complete autonomy with work hours and location, meaning you can choose what hours and location works best to suit your needs in life.
• We’re a micro-business, and adopt an agile approach to improving how we operate.

🧑‍💻 Website

https://driftime.media/

👪 Impact Report (2022)

https://2022.driftime.com/

Our Values

We exist to empower everyone to create together. For us, that means encouraging and enabling creative expression, collaboration and experimentation. We are a mission-driven team that lives and breathes our core values...

💯 Company Values

Who You Are

We're looking for a mid-weight digital designer to join the team on our mission to empower social and environmental business leaders. Ideally, you are someone who loves to create magical experiences that solve complex challenges around social, environmental and economic standards.

We're a small nimble team, so we're looking for a person who is not afraid to wear many hats. If you're someone who is excited for their next challenge and eager to dive into many different parts of what we do and represent, then this role is perfect for you!

💪 Personal Values

What You'll Do

• Contribute to a friendly, collaborative culture and be an advocate for positive progression that brings out the best in both client relationships and ourselves.
• Bring design to the forefront of team-wide decision making.
• Create and maintain design systems that are functional, modular, and accessible for both creators and partners.
• Demonstrate ideas through prototypes, interaction, animation and front-end development using low/no-code tools.
• Partner with developers to ensure high-quality and consistent follow-through.
• Drive the design vision, champion our brand, and collaborate on our product strategy.
• Work closely with internal and external teams to ensure cohesive brand experiences across multiple projects and offerings.
• Co-own the design team and collectively support one another during busy times.
• Drive amazing work at all stages of the design process. Encourage and enable work that is creatively inspired, innovative, and meets our client partner's needs and impact goals.
• Establish and improve design processes that propel projects from first-contact to delivery.
• Challenge the conventions of digital experiences to deliver new ways of interaction and subsequent impact for people, planet and profit.
• Work within a highly collaborative team that is open to different ideas, approaches, and perspectives. Confidence in failing, learning and iterating is key to progress and better work.

What You'll Need

• Great work! We care less about your CV and more about the level/quality of your design work and thinking. Examples of apps, websites, and design systems with a strong combination of impact-driven digital design is what we're after.
• Some experience working on digital products across multiple platforms.
• Front-end development knowledge, deeper technical know-how with low carbon efficiency, and an understanding on how systems can be built for scalability and long-term sustainability.
• A strong sense of empathy for the client partners, consumers, and a knack for need-finding.
• Strong problem-solving ability and effectiveness in situations with sometimes limited information.
• A love for building impact-driven solutions and communicating it to stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Figma and familiarity with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
• Proficiency using software to build prototypes (Figma) and bonus points for experience in Framer/Principle and After Effects for motion.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to clearly explain design decisions.
• An active, curious mindset that continually pushes convention to set new standards.

What Would be Nice

• Experience working within humane design principles. Not mandatory, as we can teach this through our process.
• You're an organised individual. We pride ourselves in creating lean, simple frameworks and design systems that are organised and easy to jump into.
• You believe design holds a high responsibility in solving a complex challenge that is personal to you.

Benefits & Perks

• 100% Distributed - our team works remotely and flexibly, but you will have to be available to collaborate on UK timezone–friendly hours.
• Competitive Salary.
• Complete Autonomy - you can choose when, where, and how to work. All we ask is that you somewhat align this to project deadlines and meetings for effective collaboration. We typically recommend somewhere between 9am-6pm, between Monday-Thursday, to ensure a healthy work/life balance.
• We're a growing business, and work with you to define your role and career. We actively look to understand what Driftime can do for you, and provide opportunities (and budget) for personal development.
• Unlimited Paid Holiday (after probation period).
• Sustainable Pension Plan through Penfold.
• Access to Skillshare and an extensive library of training courses, plus budget towards specific training and personal development.
• Headspace account for mental wellbeing.

The Small Print

• This is a pro-rata salary with an expected 34 hours per week, spread over 4 days.
• Please read this carefully before submitting. Applicants that are clearly not a good fit will not be considered. We're looking for applicants that care about long-term impact, and the influence/role design plays.
• Applicants must have the right to work within the UK.
• Recruiters will be ignored. Please save yourself time.
• Due to the volume of applications, we are unable to respond to unsuccessful candidates during the initial phase.