Description:
Working in partnership with our client, the Senior Designer is to work on-site with one of our finance clients based in Edinburgh.
The Senior Designer will need conceptual expertise, creating impactful crafted communications, smart ideas and developing design best practice. You will have worked directly with clients and be looking to develop and build effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. This role delivers integrated marketing campaigns, from digital to print; from campaign creation to asset execution; brand identity and presentations; whilst also leading and mentoring other designers within the team
ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING
Managing a team of 2 integrated designers and reporting into the Associate Design Director.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE
- Understand the importance of the brand and working within brand guidelines
- Working in a fast-paced environment and with a small high-impact creative team
- Have conceptual expertise and leading the way on projects
- Providing creative direction to the other designers
- Reviewing and guiding first draft proposals from the team
- Mentor and line-manage designers
- Produce playbooks, best practice, help organise training/events for designers
- Share know-how and best work across Oliver network
- Collaborate with teams on ideation, creation, art direction and implementation
- Ability to articulate and present the work to the client, with a clear rationale to accompany
- Experience in creating designs for financial services organisations
- Understand the impact financial promotion limitations can have on creative designs and campaigns
- Keeping up to date with current design thinking and trends, translating these into proactive ideas
WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL
- A well-rounded understanding of contemporary graphic design, exceptional typography and social/digital standards
- Strong working knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite – Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and After Effects. Plus Keynote and Powerpoint skills.
- Passionate and curious about design and social media and understanding the latest innovations
- Skills to lead, mentor and brief designers, offering constructive feedback allowing them to push the quality of the work
- Strong communication skills – able to express ideas clearly and build relationships
- A great team player, able to work as part of a small team within a corporate environment
- An individual capable of developing conceptual work but also to execute prescriptive comms
- 7+ years experience design/advertising/marketing environment sectors
- Formal design education
- Experience in brand, social, print and motion