Job Description

At Armadillo, we work with some of the world's biggest brands, including Disney, Huel, Nationwide, P&O Cruises and Cunard Cruises, to produce beautifully creative and effective CRM campaigns.


We believe in the long-term success that comes from always putting the best interests of our clients and the well-being and progression of our staff at the heart of everything we do. We have ambitious plans to grow the agency. Our aim is to become the UK's most recommended CRM agency: the one everyone wants to work with or for.


We are now on the lookout for an ambitious

Senior Designer

to join our Creative team. So, think you can help us?


As a

Senior Designer

at Armadillo you will be creating game-changing CRM (Customer Relationship Marketing) across a range of our clients. You will need to have an understanding of how brands can communicate with customers in 1:1 channels, knowledge of the channels (email, web, push, app & DM) and an understanding of CRM principles including affinity, loyalty, and the importance of handling customer data.



On a day to day basis you will be:

Leading the Creative output of your project team (print and digital designers), supporting the professional development of junior team members providing mentoring and guidance. Creating design concepts that aim to meet and exceed project goals, communicating ideas quickly and effectively using sketches Understanding how brands behave, learning guidelines inside out and implementing them, or suggesting the evolution of guidelines Creating innovative and engaging design solutions, whether responsive digital design solutions or bespoke print formats, that demonstrate an understanding of the content hierarchy. Demonstrating excellent design skills in layout, typography and image creation/manipulation (vector based illustrations or photographic manipulation), and critiquing the layouts by creatives in your discipline team Creating innovative clear and engaging UI elements, including interactivity that can be measured for efficacy Bringing content to life with animations by creating clear storyboards and, ideally, generating high-quality animated content Demonstrating how a user will move through communications (within and between campaigns), whether single or multiple emails, DM, web, push, and app, using wireframes or low-fi designs. Supporting the delivery of client strategy and data goals, presenting your solutions with rationales that demonstrate how your work can influence those goals Presenting your work with enthusiasm, gravitas, and clarity when in person, and translating that into presentation decks with helpful ordering and annotations when work is sent digitally.

At Armadillo, we are a collaborative team, so you will also need to work closely with employees in various departments throughout the agency maintaining excellent working relationships with colleagues at all levels.


We are looking for a strong communicator who will drive high standards, be able to effectively communicate project status updates, and support in knowledge sharing within your discipline and throughout the agency. A

Senior Designer

at Armadillo should be ambitious, motivated and driven, and constantly looking to improve the quality of their work - does that sound like you?



Some requirements of the

Senior Designer

role are:

Agency experience - being familiar with a fast-paced environment and the cross-discipline collaboration it requires Experience leading projects Expert-level experience of using Adobe Creative Cloud, including Figma, InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator Skills in After Effects, Microsoft (Word, PPT & Excel) and the Google equivalents
Understanding of Project Management software (we use Wrike) is ideal.



At Armadillo, we truly appreciate the hard work & dedication of our employees, and so we offer the following benefits to all Armadillos:

Hybrid working environment - 3 days in our central Bristol office / 2 days remote 25 days' annual leave plus a day off on your birthday, increasing by 1 day per annum at each year anniversary up to 30 days, plus bank holidays Summer and Christmas hours - finish 2.5 hours early one Friday per month in June, July, August and December Contributory company pension 4% employee 3% employer of total pay through salary sacrifice, escalating 1% each year following your 2nd anniversary at Armadillo, up to 8% employer contribution Bupa dental care & Vitality health insurance Lots of social events, including Summer and Christmas parties Cycle to work scheme Employee Assistance Programme offered by Assured Health IPA Membership & Bristol Creative Industries Membership

We are also committed to creative a diverse workforce and environment, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at Armadillo, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origins, genetics, disability or age.