Middleweight Designer

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Job title**:Midweight Graphic Designer

**Reports to**: Lead Designer

**Location**: Head Office, Bath Tues to Thur

Working from home Mon & Fri

**Company Background**

Established in 1974, Graham & Green is a proudly independent, family-run homeware emporium.
Our flagship store in Notting Hill was the first of its kind, brimming with exotic homewares scoured from far-flung corners of the world. You’ll find us in the very same spot today, alongside four additional stores across the UK. Our mission remains the same: to source the very best furniture, homeware and unique gifts that excite, inspire and bring joy.

We pride ourselves on having a colourful vibrant community where everyone feels part of the family. Whether that’s friends, family, colleagues, customers, makers or furry friends. We’re only as good as the team that forms us, which is why we’re always on the hunt for exceptional people to be a part of our special culture.

We’re creative innovators, seeking like-minded folk with an eye for colour and design to join the
G&G family. If that sounds like you, we’d love you to come explore our curious little world with us.

**Job Purpose**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Produce print and online campaigns to tight deadlines from concept to completion
- Liaise closely with all departments to produce the best response to creative briefs
- Support Lead Designer in working with the Marketing Director and Creative Director on developing and improving the company brand look and feel
- Work closely with the Design Lead in creating new marketing and visual ideas
- To create inspiring visual communication to tell the G&G brand story, message and offer to the widest audience possible, following the marketing plan

**Person Specification**
- Good knowledge of - and interest in - retail brands and how they promote themselves
- A keen interest in typography and vintage graphics
- Excellent organisational and communication skills
- Ability to manage a variety of workloads and responsibilities
- Relaxed and adaptable outlook: G&G is not a regimented, corporate/agency environment
- Good humoured in the face of occasional and inevitable chaos
- Must love dogs - we have two occasional office pets and we're all animal mad - as are our customers

**Experience**
- Experience with Adobe Suite (especially Photoshop and InDesign) and Illustrator
- Experience with digital design
- Basic animation skills a bonus
- Able to work with responsive web design - hit the ground running in quickly producing assets for our website and social media
- Print design experience and examples; catalogues, booklets, wraps etc.
- Exceptional creative thinking with a good understanding of the Graham & Green brand
- Strong portfolio demonstrating originality, flexibility and skills over print and digital
- Comfortable sketching out ideas, concepts and thought-processes
- Retouching skills in Photoshop an advantage
- Prototyping and visualising skills to show mock-ups of designs
- Excellent communication skills, a keen eye for quality and exceptional attention to detail
- 5 years commercial design experience

**Benefits**
- Generous holiday allowance and birthday off
- Breakfast on Thursday
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Company Pension Scheme
- Bike2Work Scheme
- Generous staff discount
- A small, friendly close-knit team
- Flexi-working
- Dogs in office

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Quarterly bonus

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bath