About the Role
We are seeking a talented multi-disciplined Midweight Graphic Designer with a passion for digital design and visual communication. This role is ideal for someone with strong graphic design foundations who enjoys developing engaging creative ideas across campaigns, branding, digital platforms, and emerging formats. You will collaborate closely with strategists, creatives, motion designers, developers, and account teams to produce high-quality, accessible, and visually engaging work, embracing modern digital design platforms and utilizing Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma.
Responsibilities
- Maintain high creative standards, evolve design processes, and support the development of the studio's digital design capability.
- Develop strong visual concepts for campaigns, branding, pitches, and new business opportunities.
- Produce high-quality graphic design across presentations, advertising, social, print, OOH, and digital projects.
- Design engaging digital experiences including websites, landing pages, digital display, interactive content, and campaign assets.
- Rapidly create and explore multiple branding and campaign directions, supported by clear strategic thinking and aligned to client objectives.
- Translate complex information into clear, compelling, and accessible visual communications.
- Create storyboards and visual frameworks for motion design and collaborate with motion designers through production.
- Contribute to reusable design assets, shared frameworks, and design systems.
- Work collaboratively with developers and digital specialists to ensure designs are achievable and implemented accurately.
- Present design concepts and rationale clearly to internal teams, stakeholders, and clients.
- Apply responsive and accessible design principles to digital work.
- Stay up to date with emerging design trends, digital platforms, AI tools, and evolving creative best practice.
Requirements
- 3-5 years' experience within a design agency or in-house creative team.
- Excellent graphic design skills, with a strong portfolio spanning branding, campaigns, digital communications, and visual storytelling.
- Ability to rapidly develop multiple branding and campaign concepts, presenting a range of creative options backed by solid strategic thinking to meet client objectives.
- Strong typography, layout, composition, and visual hierarchy skills.
- A good understanding of digital design principles, responsive layouts, and designing across different screen sizes and formats.
- Experience designing for digital display, web, mobile, social, and presentation platforms.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain creative thinking clearly.
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to high-quality craft.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Balance creative ambition with user needs, technical feasibility, budgets, and project timelines.
- Experience designing accessible digital content and interfaces.
- Experience with digital display, rich media, or AdTech creative.
Skills
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Figma
- FigJam
- After Effects or similar motion tools
- ChatGPT and other AI-assisted creative tools
- Branding and visual identity projects
- Campaign concepts and advertising across multiple formats
- Digital display, social or AdTech creative
- Presentations, information design and visual storytelling
- Website, landing page or interactive experience design
- Storyboards or creative thinking for motion design
- AI-assisted creative workflows
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Midweight
- 3-5 years
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- 27 days holiday per year
- Pension contributions
- Private healthcare
- Discounted dental insurance
- Enhanced maternity/parental leave
- Cultural stimulation allowance - £250 per person per year
- Half days off before bank holidays
- Emergency care days for dependants
- Up to 5 days volunteering leave per year
- Up to 10 days special emergency leave per year
- Season Ticket loan
- Payroll Giving Scheme
- Inclusive bank holidays
- Learning opportunities around DE&I
- Targeted mentoring programmes
- Opportunity to participate in Employee Led Networks and associated events
- Personal development support
About the Company
- The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with business-wide activity across people, culture, industry, and society.
Equal Opportunity
- M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.
- All employee and candidate information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
