Senior Graphic Designer / Art Director
Job Description
Role Overview:
We are a London-based design agency currently looking for a talented senior Graphic Designer/Art Director to join our multi-disciplined team. We are looking for someone with a proven ability to create exceptional ideas-based work, confident in taking the lead on projects – from briefing through to final delivery.
Our clients range from start-ups to established global brands across a broad range of categories, and our work varies across design, digital and advertising. Experience working closely with clients, strong communication and presenting skills are a must.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing creative work with strong conceptual and strategic thinking across both print and digital briefs, in a broad range of client categories
- Maintaining an outstanding level of design craft with high standards of attention to detail
- Leading on creative deliverables of projects from briefing through to delivery, and overseeing work by more junior members of the design team
- Leading on art direction for both still and motion content, from briefing to storyboarding to PPMs to on-the-shoot-day direction, and post-production management
- Working alongside agency partners, the broader design team, strategists, creatives, copywriters, account manager, web developers and performance marketing team
- Briefing and ongoing liaison with any third-party suppliers.
- Working directly with client teams and building positive client relationships
Key Skills:
- Great experience and confidence working across print and digital
- Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design)
- Experience using Sketch or Figma (or both!)
- Experience using Keynote
- Experience using After Effects or Premier a bonus (not essential!)
- Basic knowledge of UX principles
- Highly creative with a good eye for detail
- A passion for design and craft
- Strong knowledge of typography
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Initiative – able to work well independently, as well as within a team
- Collaboration – working with multiple teams and partners
- Ability to balance projects and timelines
You’ll be:
- Hardworking, flexible, adaptable
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic and pro-active
- Curious and always learning
- Well organised with the ability to think ahead
- Collaborative and real team-player
About Otherway:
Launched in 2013, Otherway is a strategically-led design, digital and advertising agency. We create, refresh and invest in brands. Our knowledge of how to connect with a new generation of consumers is where our strengths lie. We focus on the ideation of new businesses and the redefinition of existing brands to create the most compelling customer experiences. Based in Primrose Hill, our 50-person multi-disciplined team is made up of strategists, designers, creatives, copywriters, account managers, performances marketers and web developers - all full of smart ideas and a shared purpose to help our clients and ventures succeed.
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday allowance (pro rata)
- Closed between Christmas and New Year (not taken as holiday)
- Travelcard loan scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Free eye tests and flu jabs annually
- Flexible working (3:2 days)
- Free lunches and a stocked fridge