Digital & Graphic Designer
Job Description
Digital & Graphic Designer
Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hrs/week)
Contract Type: Permanent
Remuneration: £23,000-£30,000 p.a. (subject to experience)
Working: Hybrid (after passing probation), 3–4 days in West London office
Location: The Barrel Yard, Shepherd’s Bush, London, W6 0LQ
Reporting to: Studio Manager
ABOUT US
We're Interactive Workshops (IW), an agile, award-winning agency providing learning innovation to ignite and equip some of the world’s most famous companies. Clients such as Airbus, Cisco, Samsung and M&S tap into our sense of adventure to collaboratively design and deliver outstanding L&D. The result? Our clients get faster, brighter, closer and create stronger teams, leaders, individuals and organisations. Based in London and New York, we’re normal people, brilliant at what we do… and humble (ish).
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our growing London team is looking for a digital & graphic designer with bags of energy, creativity as standard, a relational spirit, and a sharp approach. To help the agency cater to the needs of their ever-growing roster of clients, IW needs a Junior-Mid Digital & Graphic Designer (with agency experience) who can work within our studio team to deliver outstanding designs. The role would be ideal for a designer with a minimum of one year's experience in a studio or agency. They’ll report directly to our Studio Manager and will work closely and collaboratively with other creatives across the team.
In this role a successful candidate will create beautiful digital materials for some of the world’s most famous brands and produce stunning visual learning aids to be seen by 10s of 1000s of people. Even better, they’ll benefit from loads of feedback and support to push their creative limits and produce their best ever work. Naturally, that’ll make our team and our clients really happy.
Applicants should ensure that they...
1. Are confident with the Adobe Creative Cloud; InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.
2. Spark designs into life through genius concepts and bright ideas, whilst also following the commercial brand guidelines of an organisation.
3. Run with an idea and proactively use teamwork to make it happen with time to spare.
4. Communicate clearly, plan effectively and get their work done with a kind of calm confidence that we’ll all envy a little bit.
5. Bring an exceptional level of organisation that means we’re always ahead of the game.
6. Have UX & UI knowledge and experience. You will be designing eLearnings (even if you never have before).
7. Can create attractive and accurate PowerPoint presentations, sometimes using commercial templates.
8. Are ready to design in whatever format fits the brief – eLearnings, stickers, magnets, board games, etc.
9. Are willing to be upskilled in design areas; from Articulate Storyline & Rise for eLearnings to designing Quip or Sharepoint pages.
10. Make the life of our Studio Manager a breeze by owning projects, communicating time frames and driving to make things happen, whilst also being ready to learn and committed to developing as a designer.
SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES
The kind of person we're looking for will be so smart they don’t need us to list a bunch of descriptors like ‘great communication’ and ‘ability to work well in a team’. That comes as standard. Plus, they've got:
- An unshakeable ‘can do’ attitude
- A strong desire to learn, grow and stretch themselves
- An ability to communicate their expertise in terms everyone can understand
- An ability to present ideas and concepts that gets others on board
- Conduct themselves in a professional manner, thinking strategically about the tasks they are leading through to completion
- Are relentlessly helpful, willing to give things a go and always thinking about the end user
- Just a little bit of something special
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with Adobe After Effects or Premiere Pro and can animate, creating simple motion graphics
- Can assist in the filming, basic editing and post-production of films that we produce
- Can actively contribute to the content of marketing materials (and post them on our website, on LinkedIn and on other forums)
- Can write engaging, accurate copy with correct spelling and grammar
THE PERKS
Rewarding work // We're driven by delivering innovation for businesses and organisations.
Flexible working // We understand that some planned work (normally 1 or 2 days) from home is necessary, productive and healthy.
All the gear // Whatever tools we need for the job, we get them.
Learning and development // We contribute towards books, training courses and conferences that help the team learn and grow.
Mid-morning and mid-afternoon Breaks // We save those non-work conversations until we can grab a cup of tea together. It shapes our culture.
Collaborative working // We don't do silos. Even remotely, we meet briefly to share what we're going to get done.
Lunch & Learns // We regularly hold one-hour training sessions on a key topic over lunch.
Socials // We're in Shepherd's Bush with Westfield on the doorstep, so there's plenty of choice for a team social.
Holiday // 25 days of holiday a year. Time to relax and come back with fresh ideas.
Christmas holiday // Office closed. Extra holiday. It’s the most wonderful time of year.
Summer hours // We flex our workday in the summer to finish early or get some work done by the pool. (British weather permitting.)
Bike fleet // Instead of a complicated cycle scheme, we have a fleet of gravel bikes available for social rides or the commute.