Digital Midweight Designer
Job Description
About Us
We founded Minor Figures in 2014, launching with just one carton of cold brew. We’ve since expanded into a global market with a wide range of killer products, a strong brand identity, and a small but significant market share. We’re growing fast and we now have an opportunity to scale up and touch millions more lives as we learn, extend our product range, and deepen our focus on innovation and sustainability. The creative team is passionate and talented with an innovative NPD pipe.
About You
We’re looking for an experienced Digital Designer to join the Creative team at Minor Figures. Reporting into our Designer Director, you’ll bring a wealth of experience in all aspects of digital design; from ecommerce and emails to organic and paid social media. You’ll be excited to take our digital spaces to the next level and will be brimming with ideas as to how to do this; pushing boundaries, and creating amazing work in a variety of campaigns across multiple platforms.
We’re a small team but growing FAST. We’re expanding our team of designers so that we can create exceptional work that will innovate, excite and amuse. Enthusiasm is paramount in this role - we’re looking for someone who gets a kick out of surprising and delighting our customers at every turn. We love to work collaboratively, so you will thrive off other people’s ideas as well as your own.
We’re looking for someone with a portfolio of work that demonstrates your creative vision as well as your solid rational design thinking - but this is not your average in-house design job. Minor Figures is built by people who question the very notion of 'branding' and reject the dull, traditional practises of the corporate world. If it’s a bit weird, we dig it.
Contract type: Full time
Years of experience: Minimum 4 years working in design studios or in-house.
Salary: Dependant on experience
Location: London
Roles and responsibilities
Work closely with our digital marketing manager, social media manager and Ecommerce manager and copywriter to cut through the noise of the digital world with weird and wonderful creative content.
Produce paid and organic social media content, emails and digital ads
Receive and respond to briefs in a creative and considerate way, factoring in a variety of elements including the customer journey, tone-of-voice and timeframe.
Always be thinking of things to add to our digital channels. The briefs will be plentiful but you will also contribute ideas off your own back.
Contribute to regular brainstorming sessions with our marketing and creative team.
Design engaging treatments with a strong emphasis on visual storytelling.
Push boundaries and help take Minor Figures to places we haven’t been before.
Personal Skills
A strong portfolio of ideas that demonstrates both a creative and strategic understanding
Exceptional knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop/After Effects/Premiere Pro).
Strong layout and typography skills
Animation skills (creating animations from scratch but also animating other people’s work)
Photography/video skills aren’t essential but would be well received!
Experienced at creating responsive content
Experienced at adapting creative concepts from other designers for digital channels
A lot of our branding is based around illustration, so the ability to adapt and build on these illustrations with your own illustration skills would be a bonus.
Awareness of current design trends and new ways of working.
A positive, can-do attitude
Good verbal and written skills. Ability to articulate the value of creativity and design to the wider business.
Enjoys working collaboratively but also is self-motivated when working independently
Knowledge of what works best for each digital channel
Excellent at following a brief in a way that is “Minor Figures”
Great at meeting deadlines set by the Project Manager
Adaptability and being comfortable with change will get you far - you’ll need to be comfortable working with a remote team and communicating with teams in different time zones.
A cracking sense of humor...and if you can also make a good cup of coffee, you’ll fit right in.