Digital & Email Designer

**Job Introduction**
We have a fantastic opportunity for a creative digital designer to join our newly formed Digital Experience team in the growing Digital Marketing department. We’re looking for someone who can originate and execute creative assets across digital channels that inspire our customers through our brand, purpose and product ranges. You’ll be working with our Online Graphic Designer and compliment UX & UI colleagues as well as our merchandising and marketing teams, we’re looking for a person who can wow us with a constant stream of creative ideas, with the ability to produce them adhering to best in class digital standards.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Perform QA and ensure identical rendering across browsers, ESPs, and devices.
- Troubleshoot HTML & CSS when issues arise.
- Research up-to-date and emerging technologies and developments in the design field.
- Capture and translate brand identities and tones across different brand websites and product pages
- Update and refresh the websites and App’s across seasons, creating eye catching promotions
- Work closely with departments spanning across eCommerce, Media, Marketing to ensure consistent messaging across channels
- Deliver consistently high standards of digital graphic design solutions to briefs. To provide clear status updates and communication to the briefers on all briefs making sure these are delivered within timeframes
- Maintain and develop close working relationships with the Online and Marketing teams
- Create jpg, gif, or flash banners for affiliate sites as required
- Organise and prioritise workflow efficiently
- Being agile, creating content quickly and keeping designs on brand
- Be a key team player through all project phases from concept through to the final handover of files and guidelines (brand and/or digital)
- Support and work with other members of the creative and project team to help deliver to successful outcomes
- Contribute ideas, set up and run, and regularly attend events and initiatives that inspire our team and colleagues
- Digital design degree or equivalent qualification
- Moderate experience of designing within a team
- A good understanding of digital design
- Graphic design/product design skills and extensive knowledge of Apple Mac and software related, including Adobe CC suite and later upgrades. Illustrator, Photoshop and In-design are essential and Sketch is essential.
- Previous retail e-commerce experience, preferable
- Strong graphic design skills
- Creative thinker
- Self-starter and highly self-motivated
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to collaborate with others to achieve results
- Ability to work within a fast paced environment demanding a flexible response to any challenges
- Team player that encourages creative thinking and supports risk taking, whilst complying with corporate guidelines
- Knowledge of the current market trends
- Resilient and organised

**About The Company**
- Pension
- 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
- Save As You Earn scheme
- Financial Wellbeing Support
- Financial Education Tools
- Salary Advance
- Seasonal incentive schemes
- Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
- Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
- Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme - access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave

**Salary**: From £30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Wakefield WF2: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- What are your salary expectations?
- Do you have experience in digital design?

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)