Midweight Designer, Ft Live

**About Us**

The FT has an uncompromising mission: delivering independent, quality information, news and services to individuals and companies around the globe. It’s the cornerstone of our reputation and the heart of our ambitions for the future. But for our people, the FT offers so much more than what we do. FT people come from all kinds of backgrounds and work across a huge range of disciplines and locations, and find an empowering, warm and welcoming culture that values curiosity and rewards smart, ambitious thinking. Those who are willing to unite around our mission and live our values will find plenty to challenge, inspire and interest them. Like the audiences we serve, no two FT people are the same; but together we help our audience be better informed and understand the world around them. It’s a job that’s never mattered more, and a career that can take you anywhere you want to go.

**Our commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace**

At the FT, we aim for employees across all regions to have a voice so that diverse perspectives are heard and valued. We believe that a supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves at work and have the flexibility they need to meet their personal needs. We'll continue to remove barriers for all, and in particular barriers facing employees from underrepresented groups.

**Job Purpose**
The Midweight Designer will be part of a team of six designers. The main job function is the hands-on production of visual marketing and communication assets for FT Live’s events, which number several hundred per year. The Midweight Designer will join our lively, enthusiastic and highly-skilled team which works together to ensure that FT Live is successful in maintaining and further developing a strong, sustainable events business across both digital and in-person events.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**
- Development of beautiful and eye catching creative routes for our digital and hybrid (digital / in person) events, within agreed brand guidelines
- Once creative route is agreed, executing it across a range of communication materials. Materials will include:

- Deliver high-quality work on time, to strict deadlines and within brand guidelines
- Briefing and management of projects through external third-party suppliers, for example printers and video editors
- Manage competing priorities across different projects, understands departmental goals and prioritises and delegates tasks accordingly
- Accept, respond to and action feedback from stakeholders on designs
- Assist the Head of Design and Senior Designer with the development, rollout and communication of design processes, platforms and systems

**Key Skills & Experience**
- A recognised design qualification
- A minimum of two years of previous design experience in an organisation of similar standing to the FT
- A portfolio of exceptional design work from commercial projects, which showcases creative development work as well as execution of designs across assets
- An enthusiasm for typography
- Strong skills in Adobe Creative Cloud packages such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- A keen eye for detail
- A confident communication style, comfortable presenting ideas to peers and design decisions to stakeholders
- Ability to work in the Mac OSX operating system, in the Google Workspace and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite
- A desire to develop new skills (technical, design and soft skills), and an ability to adjust to using new technologies and platforms rapidly

**Desirable skills and experience**

Knowledge of the following would be advantageous though full training will be provided:

- Skills in animation and video editing packages, such as Adobe Premiere or Adobe After Effects
- HTML / CSS / Javascript
- A ‘Digital-first’/UX design package such as Figma, Adobe XD or Sketch
(NB: we use Figma)
- Asana or other similar project management software

**What’s in it for you? Our benefits**

Our benefits vary depending on location, but we are committed to providing best in class perks across all our offices as well as an inclusive environment to develop your career. Examples of our benefits include; generous annual leave allowances, flexible working (including working from home), medical cover, enhanced maternity & paternity packages, subsidised gym memberships and Giving Back opportunities. Full details of our benefits can be found here.

**Further Information**

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