Midweight Designer

2 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom DEPT® Full time

**Midweight Designer (Static & Motion)**

**WHO ARE WE?**

The bigger picture**: DEPT® **is a pioneering technology and marketing services company that creates integrated end-to-end digital experiences for brands such as Google, TikTok, eBay, ASOS, Zoopla, Twitch, Patagonia and many, many more.

Our team of 4,000+ digital specialists across 30+ locations on five continents deliver pioneering work on a global scale with a boutique culture. We live and breathe our _'big enough to cope, small enough to care'_ ethos, providing an inclusive, supportive and an exciting place to accelerate your career.

This role is part of our Personalised Content team. We create emotive yet conversion-focused ideas, products and campaigns at scale and speed. Our specialty is hyper-personalised, digital communications that change perceptions, shape new behaviours, and shift market share for our clients including eBay, Ancestry, Walmart, and more

**JOB PURPOSE**:
We are looking for a talented Designer to join out team on a 12m contract. As a Midweight Designer, you will be creating engaging designs that start conversations between people and brands. You'll work within a team of strategists, designers and copywriters to deliver impactful designs that fulfil client briefs and communicate DEPT®'s standard of Design. You'll be supporting our studio team for a key and exciting account, producing a range of different assets.

**We are looking for a multidisciplinary designer that can turn their hand to digital first design and animation just as well as they can printed materials**.

Our Midweight Designers are required to understand and motivate more junior designers to achieve extraordinary things: they're able to guide thinking and behaviour in others and take counsel from within to thrive in a dynamic environment. Our Design Mentors understand their craft, demonstrate good judgement and emotional intelligence, and inspire self-development.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Digital-first design
- Delivering constructive feedback
- Coach your team members and help them to realise areas of development
- Working on a brief from start to finish
- Image sourcing
- Designing for print and merchandise
- Maintaining and regularly optimising an existing brand's digital design system
- Always striving to create work that contributes towards the client's business goals
- Researching competitors and staying current with design and marketing trends
- Taking accountability for flawless design output
- Contributing innovative ideas at creative review meetings
- Protecting brand integrity and guardianship

**SKILLS AND PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE**:

- Relevant digital design experience
- Intermediate understanding of motion design (we use Adobe After Effects)
- You are well versed in working in an agency context and have relevant experience covering brand, direct and above the line creative work
- Good eye for layout, skilled in typesetting and retouching.
- Proficient using digital design software (i.e. Figma, Adobe CS)
- Basic understanding of print design.
- A great teammate that supports their colleagues and doesn't act as an individual
- Very organised with attention to detail
- A great source for up-to-the-minute creative knowledge and digital design trends
- Works with grit and determination in the face of demanding deadlines
- Has a desire to embrace new skills and challenges

**WE OFFER**:

- Healthcare with Vitality or Medicash
- 26 days' holiday exclusive of bank holidays
- Mental health support
- Company pension scheme with The People's Pension
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- A flexible, hybrid working policy
- Ride to work scheme
- Possibilities to do what you do best and to develop your skills further with training, development and certifications
- Buddy Program: You will be paired with a 'Buddy' to help you through your first weeks' at DEPT®
- Annual trip to the DEPT® Festival in the Netherlands: a chance to meet other people in DEPT®, see great talks from industry leaders, and have an all-expenses-paid weekend of fun
- Global Annual DEPT® Cares Day which cadets can donate their skills to support local charities
- Other soft benefits including, refreshments provided in the office and a social calendar with weekly and monthly events on a team or agency level

**DEPT® **is committed to making a positive impact on the planet and since 2021 has been Climate Neutral and B Corporation certified.

Learn more about our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts here.


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