Senior designer

Closing date: 28th October 2024

We are looking for a talented and experienced senior designer to join The Bright Agency. 

The Bright Agency is a global agency that nurtures passionate, gifted artists and authors.

As part of a small, dynamic team, you'll work closely with the CEO and Senior Managers to create high-quality design solutions for branding, style guides and pitch decks for print and digital creative assets.

Your portfolio will show a range of beautifully crafted designs for branding and pitching projects where you have led the work and been involved in conception. It will demonstrate that you are a creative and strategic thinker who loves getting into the design details and has a flair for creating design concepts in a visually effective and engaging way. You will be a team player who is ready to get stuck in and confident in communicating and presenting ideas.

Key deliverables

• Responsible for the creative execution and delivery of brand vision, style guides and pitch decks.
• Working to brief, budget and deadlines and taking concepts from inception to completion.
• Skilled in creative problem solving with a willingness to take risks and push boundaries but with this willingness grounded in a strong commercial awareness.
• Create and push for the highest standards of work in design and visual communication.
• Find solutions that are creative and support business objectives.
• On top of industry and market trends.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in new business developments such as creating lookbooks for new licensing projects, delivering curated lightboxes, producing client and in-house presentations etc.
• Creating portfolio sheets for trade shows, and liaising with freelancers when producing larger volumes of the portfolio sheets.
• Producing and managing internal assets for corporate and internal branding, agency guidelines etc.
• Creating and implementing deadlines, project goals, expectations and workflows, to ensure a smooth process with on-time delivery.
• Managing procurement of print, large format production,  and organising deliveries.
• Curating image libraries and video, artwork and branding assets. Ensuring files are stored and named according to protocols.

This role will include:

• Internal Stakeholders: Across the agency; CEO, the Board, Marketing and agency management
• External Stakeholders: Print and Design companies and other third parties as required

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Design experience (ideally within the Publishing / Licensing environment)
• Experience working with small and large clients that mix between corporate, startup and boutique.
• Strong verbal and visual narrative and presentation skills.
• A degree in a design-related field.
• Has great experience in branding and building visual narratives and solid experience in designing creative assets for branding, pitch decks and style guides within the Publishing / Licensing / Creative industry.
• Demonstrates strong experience in a previous graphic design role with a focus on branding, gained in environments delivering high quality, innovative and successful creative solutions across a wide variety for print and digital creative assets.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality concepts for branding, pitch decks and style guides.
• Brand-focused designing the best and most effective creative solutions for the agency.
• Strong computer literacy, highly proficient in Adobe CS suite including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Understanding of design, prepress print processes for the development of concepts and press-ready artwork.
• Hands-on graphic design, typography, compositional and technical skills.
• Confident when presenting and pitching ideas to key stakeholders.
• A creative and strategic thinker with good business sense.
• Takes initiative and brings ideas to the table.
• Is reliable, organised, enthusiastic and a team player.
• Is organised, efficient and comfortable adapting across varying budgets and deadlines.
• Able to generate unique and original ideas and to present work at different stages of a project.
• Confidently communicates ideas and responds well to feedback.
• Comfortable to work on their own as well as collaboratively as part of a team. You will be a team player, supporting your team members when required.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, is adaptable and is comfortable with change.
• A super strong creative flair, detail-focused but with an eye on the big picture.
• You can take direction and are willing to listen, learn and share ideas with the team.

Personal attributes

• Works well under pressure.
• Has a can-do attitude and uses own initiative.
• Is open to various types of feedback and flexible enough to accommodate required changes or suggestions.
• Able to propose successful design solutions – can think independently / outside the box.
• Understands and works well as both: team-player and independent creative depending on the project.

To apply

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Michelle, inserting 'Designer' in the subject line. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries. 

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.