Senior Strategic Designer

1 month ago

Guildford, United Kingdom Grand Central Creative Full time

Grand Central is an award-winning, full-service brand activation, design and digital agency based in Guildford.


The Opportunity

We’re on the hunt for a Senior Designer / Art Director with a minimum of five years of agency experience to join our team.

To move forward, we’d love to see an online portfolio showcasing your role in concepting, crafting, and delivering a range of strategically driven, creative campaigns. We’re especially interested in seeing evidence of your leadership and ability to discuss your pivotal contributions.

Our small but dynamic team works on everything from shopper activations and brand campaigns to event design and builds, across print, digital, film, and 3D. Everyone here is hands-on, bringing practical production skills and a passion for staying current with trends and techniques.

We’re not looking for someone who just wants to pass on ideas for others to execute; we want a creative problem-solver who actively brings ideas to life.

This role is client-facing, so you should feel confident presenting your work and insights to clients and colleagues—often in live or video sessions with global clients.

Lastly, as we work closely together, we value meticulous organisation (yes, this includes well-labelled files—no “Layer 76 copy” here).

Note: Applications without an accessible portfolio will not be considered.


Recruitment agencies: We are not looking for assistance with this role - thank you.


Salary + benefits

  • Salary circa £55k pa depending on capabilities and relevant experience.
  • 25 days holiday per annum.
  • A day off for your birthday in addition to the above.
  • Option to work 3 days from home.
  • CPD, the agency will fund any personal events or courses that you wish to attend that may prove beneficial to the agency or our clients.
  • Company social occasions, ‘Grand Nights Out’, 4 times a year.
  • Company matched NEST pension contributions up to 5% for your first 2 years of employment rising to 7.5% after 2 years of continual service.
  • Private medical plan via Vitality Health including all the Vitality Health benefits.
  • Following 1 year of continuous services, you will be eligible for a discretionary bonus scheme in April based on your performance and agency contribution.


About Grand Central 

Grand Central is an award-winning creative brand communications agency with a strong heritage in digital communications, based in Guildford.

We’re a nice bunch of people who believe in two simple principles:

  1. produce best-in-class solutions for our clients
  2. have fun doing what we do best 

It’s as simple as that 

We’re a small agency but deliver a lot so it’s important that the people we employ can lend their hand to many tasks, from making a round of tea to driving the route of Le Tour de France. Throw in the creation of some world-class creative and that’s a typical week. 

It’s all about the right attitude and what we mean by that is people are happy to muck in, lend a hand and help where help is needed. 

We see ourselves as an extension of the Client teams we work with, and the Clients are happy to treat us in this way, which is a great testament to the relationships that we have built.


About our work 

Over the last eleven years, Grand Central Creative has been responsible for producing award-winning creative campaigns and corporate solutions for clients such as Accolade Wines, Conch y Toro, National Grid, Walkers, Mars, Wilkinson Sword, Magners, Fever-Tree, Phillips, Gloucester County Cricket Club to name a few…

More info can be found at: www.grandc.co.uk

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