Medium Weight Designer

Whitenoise is looking for a driven and highly creative medium weight designer to join our busy and growing brand team. We work with companies across the UK, Ireland and the globe in a variety of sectors including finance, logistics, tech, culture, education, food and drink. This position offers the candidate an opportunity to play a key role in successfully meeting the creative and strategic needs of our clients, whilst working in a fun, relaxed and supportive environment.

You must have an impressive portfolio which showcases your best work on a wide range of project types including brand development, ad campaign creative, literature production and retail / environmental branding. In evidence of the above, we want to see a great CV with full education and work history and references and a portfolio showcasing your best work.

You will be able to evidence how you creatively respond to client briefs, and are comfortable and accomplished in client liasion, presenting your own and other's work. Your will have strong attention to detail, excellent typesetting skills and a strong sense of pride in your work. Your working day will include attending client briefings and presentations, working collaboratively on design projects, noting and accounting time expenditure against project deadlines and liaising with printers and other suppliers to ensure production quality standards are maintained. You will be fully familiar with the major Adobe CC graphics apps, have a handle on ePubs and UX design, understand print like the back of your hand and be comfortable with up-skilling and knowledge-sharing with the rest of the studio, including our motion and film teams.

We offer a great working environment where you will be encouraged, mentored and supported, and the opportunity to work on major projects that will have local, regional and international reach, across print, online and broadcast.

As a leader in workplace wellbeing, Whitenoise is currently trialling a four day working week, which, if successful, will be permanently adopted and be the normal working pattern for this role.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Attending client briefings and presentations
• Working independantly and collaboratively on design projects
• Producing creative campaign ideas
• Noting and accounting time expenditure against project deadlines
• Liaising with our production manager to ensure printers and other suppliers quality standards are maintained

REQUIREMENTS

• At least 3 years studio / agency experience
• A strong portfolio demonstrating a passion for design with excellent typographic and layout skills
• Be highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite especially InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
• Attention to detail with good verbal and written skills
• Confidence in presenting concepts to clients and maintaining client relationships
• Be a good team player but also self-motivated
• Have the ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines while maintaining standards
• Manage projects from concept stage through to final artwork
• Have an awareness of how brands extend into digital platforms

BENEFITS

• Competitive salary with annual review
• Convenient office location with free parking
• Company pension
• Monthly team social allowance
• Tickets to relevant industry events (IDI Awards, Offset and more)

Please note: If you don't send in your CV and portfolio or portfolio link with your submission you will not be considered for this position. We will not consider submissions from applicants with no studio experience. Broken or non-functioning links to portfolio sites will likewise disqualify your application.

Closing date: Friday 22 April 2022