Graphic Design and Marketing Assistant

Thinks Insight & Strategy is a research and insight consultancy with a global client base. We help engage with some of the most pressing social issues of our time, supporting brands, government, and charities to understand their customers, develop great campaigns and strategy through innovative research.

We are looking for an ambitious graphic designer with a flair for marketing strategy to join our dynamic team, working closely with our Head of Design and Head of Marketing across both design and marketing departments.

As part of the design team, you will create stunning visual work for a range of different clients, from professional report designs, pitch decks, and infographics to journey maps, wireframes, creative concepts, and more. Alongside these projects, there will be regular work tidying and formatting PowerPoint presentations, as well as supporting our video projects with filming around the office and occasionally on location at events and interviews across the UK.

Your work with the marketing team will help Thinks engage and connect with clients online by keeping our website and social channels content fresh and organised, managing client invites for our series of webinars, and updating our back-end systems to keep client lists accurate and up to date. You’ll assist with social media management, content creation, and campaign coordination. You’ll update the marketing dashboard each month with key metrics to track progress and engagement.

You should have an impressive portfolio to show us, a solid understanding of marketing strategies, and relish the opportunity to learn about the world of customer insights, engagement and research.

About you

- Have some experience in a design agency or brand environment, or a university degree in a relevant field e.g., Graphic Design, Visual Communications etc

- Proficient with the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, and the MS Office Suite

- The ability to create polished, professional visual work with a strong understanding of accessibility and how to communicate effectively in corporate and organisational contexts

- Good copywriting and creative thinking to generate engagement on our platforms

- Good organisational, time management, and project management skills 

- Compassionate about pressing social issues such as sustainability and supporting vulnerable people and communicating about this in a sensitive and visually compelling way

- Interested in human psychology, social change, brand strategy and how research/insight can be brought to life through design

- Interest in social media trends and curiosity about how to boost engagement

Desirable experience

- Experience in filming and video editing in Premiere Pro / Davinci Resolve

- An interest in learning animation and motion graphics in After Effects

- Experience creating illustrations, whether digital, hand-drawn or sketching

- Familiarity with collaborative and innovative tools such as Figma

- Familiarity with website CRM platforms

- Experience using Canva or similar to create social media graphics

Our offer

- Salary paid at London Living Wage (currently £28,808)

- Bonus scheme: We reward individual performance through salary increases and promotions. Bonuses are paid out to reflect the performance of the company as a whole. Thinks is majority owned by an Employee Ownership Trust. This means that all colleagues are eligible in any distribution of company profits. The Trust normally seeks to make a distribution twice each year, and colleagues receive a share proportional to their salary over the relevant period.

- Holiday: 25 days per calendar year*

- 19 in 20 working days: Staff who opt into this policy are eligible for one additional day off every 4 weeks, this is on top of your annual leave allowance (*this is reflected in a 1day reduction in your Annual Leave allowance).

- Group Insurances: Group Life Assurance from day one for all staff. After a successful probation period you will be eligible for additional cover under Group Income Protection and Critical Illness Cover

- Private Medical Insurance: We offer private medical insurance through Vitality as a taxable benefit to all staff after a successful probationary period.

- Enhanced parental leave policies: We offer generous, enhanced and equitable maternity/paternity/adoption leave policies to all staff after a year