Marketing Designer

About us

Selazar is an eCommerce fulfilment technology company with locations across the UK. Although, relatively young, Selazar is already a key player in the marketplace, and we have recently been recognized as a top 20 Tech Nation Rising Star for 2020/2021. We’re a multi award-winning business; proud to be recognised as a fast-growth company with partnerships across the top couriers in the UK as well as integrations with the leading eCommerce platforms, Selazar is already helping major retailing clients automate their key eCommerce processes through their platform.

We are growing at a phenomenal rate securing some fantastic contracts which means we can offer job security. We want everyone who works for us to fulfil their full potential and take their career with us as far as they can

Job Title: Marketing Designer

Reports to: Head of Marketing

Location: Belfast

Salary: Negotiable, depends on experience

Work Pattern: Monday-Friday 09:00-17:30, Hybrid working model.

At a Glance

The Marketing Designer role is an essential part of our Marketing Team. This role will be responsible for the development and creation of visual assets in support of marketing campaigns and collateral. We are seeking a candidate who will drive the graphical identity for projects of all sizes.

One of the key Selazar marketing missions for 2022 is to increase brand awareness in the eCommerce 3PL fulfilment market. We are looking for an individual who can achieve modern aesthetics with an eye towards innovative graphic/video designs that provoke attention while communicating brand values. We are a fast-growing team searching for a collaborative team player who will tell the Selazar story through design that engages both prospects and customers.

The candidate will be a passionate and motivated designer who can transform even the most basic briefs into visual feasts. You will produce best-in-class marketing content which help us stand out in a competitive landscape.

Responsibilities

• Brainstorm, create and transform ideas into visually compelling stories for all types of marketing assets that drive business results which may include websites, presentations, pitch documents, emails, landing pages, infographics, social media graphics, printed collateral, event graphics, video, iconography, illustration, animations and company projects as needed
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to produce marketing content to support project needs and goals
• Present designs to key stakeholders and gain alignment around decisions
• Create and edit marketing videos for use on websites, social and events
• Working with the team to shoot, edit and deliver video content
• Provide support to enhance written content and visuals to create impactful communication for prospects, customers and end-users
• Create visual storyboards, mock-ups, and interactive presentations that describe solution concepts and bring use cases to life
• Assist with managing daily creative project flow and prioritization
• Ensure projects are completed with high quality and on schedule
• Improve our design system by challenging our visual guidelines and principles
• Deliver event stand concept and design
• Maintain design assets and graphics library for the business, taking ownership of the brand guidelines and keeping design standards and consistency across the board
• Working closely with the Marketing team to support wider marketing efforts, along with the tech, sales, and product teams
• Work with external agencies as required and be comfortable managing these projects and relationships
• Stay up to date with industry trends and work with the team to support best practice

About You

Knowledge and abilities

• A love for design
• 5+ years in a graphic design role
• An ability to demonstrate a wide range of experience in graphic design, a strong sense of composition with the ability to analyse the hierarchy of information, strong typography skills, and an excellent eye for detail
• An ability to create concepts across strategy, copy and design and the confidence to present ideas and solutions
• Confidence to work without a brief – taking complex, uncertain problems and turning them down into simple, elegant solutions, using early concepts and prototypes to help build conviction along the way
• An interest in the agile, very fast-paced environment
• Proficiency using Adobe Creative Suite
• Creative, strategic thinker, and ability to foresee, identify and resolve problems
• An understanding of best practices for all channels and deliverables, print, digital, social, email, UX
• Great attention to detail
• An ability to work on own initiative and equally able to take direction.

Nice to have

• Degree Educated in a relevant course
• B2B technology marketing experience
• Previous experience working in an Agile team
• Experience with data visualisation
• Experience, interest or understanding of motion design
• Familiarity with a range of content formats, e.g., animated social cards, GIFs, audiograms, videograms, stories, pre-rolls etc.

Personal attributes:

● An excellent communicator and creative thinker, with an ability to use data to inform all decisions

● You routinely looking for ways to improve your work. You seek out feedback, and you know how to act on it.

● Genuinely passionate about all things creative

● You have a keen interest in experimentation and growth marketing

● You have the drive to impart this knowledge and passion into others

● You are positive, upbeat and outgoing team player happy to collaborate with a wider team

Why Work for us?

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs
• Increase in pension contributions – matched up to 10%
• Private Health Cover
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Share Option Scheme
• Birthday Bonus - take your birthday as paid leave
• Reward Gateway - exclusive access to loads of deals and discounts on big brands, including high street stores, travel websites, food and entertainment, health, and leisure and much, much more
• Peer based employee recognition programme includes
• Team building events and training opportunities
• Monthly awards where the highest scoring person in the company gains an extra day’s paid annual leave
• Quarterly award where the highest scoring person in the business for that quarter gains a bonus up to £250
• Little Extra’s Espresso yourself – Monday coffee mornings between 9am-10am
• Friday Wind Down – down tools at 4pm and enjoy a drink on us

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

At Selazar, we are proud of the talent and diversity within our teams and committed to creating equality of opportunity for all employees and applicants alike. We are committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment. We will ensure that recruitment, selection, training, development, and promotion procedures result in no job applicant or employee receiving less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, trade union membership or non-membership, sex, sexual orientation, or marital status, or being a part-time worker.

We are all unique in ways you can and cannot see, and we aim to attract, develop, and nurture talent to continue to make Selazar a wonderful place to work.

We have fully embraced hybrid working and this has been implemented across all our office locations. Our offices are fully accessible, and we also offer agile working opportunities in many of our roles.

Recruitment Agencies

We do not accept unsolicited CVs. Any unsolicited CVs sent by your company to us – that is to say, in any situation where we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy will be considered by us to be a “free gift”, leaving us liable for no fees whatsoever should we choose to contact the candidate directly and engage the candidate’s services, and will in no way establish any prior claim by your company to representation of that candidate should the candidate’s details also be submitted by any other party.