Job Description

We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for a highly creative senior designer to lead our expanding creative team.

We are looking for someone passionate about creative comms \xe2\x80\x93 with experience of producing a wide variety of work to a consistently excellent standard. You will be hands-on in the design work across our client base whilst mentoring a junior staff and briefing freelance support.

Day-to-day: You will take responsibility for creative outputs across a range of our clients, working closely with the rest of the creative, strategy & social teams, and reporting into the Creative Director.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate strong creative thinking across all areas of your work and generate high quality design output for clients
• Taking briefs from clients, distilling and briefing the team
• Provide design support for the variety of creative projects the agency tackle
• Client facing, manage creative projects directly with your attributed clients & client teams
• Contribute creatively in meetings and brainstorms.

Skills and experience you need to have:

• Experience in an agency environment is ideal \xe2\x80\x93 we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for someone with 8+ years working on \xe2\x80\x98Through the Line\xe2\x80\x99 projects and looking to take their next step in their career.
• Comprehensive Adobe Creative Suite experience - advanced use of Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator with After-Effects as a bonus
• Strong understanding of creative artworking, and ability to set up print ready artwork and digital production files.
• Impeccable attention to detail!
• You will be a natural collaborator - facilitating and creating lines of communication with the client teams, and constantly improving collaboration between our departments and clients
• You will be curious - constantly keeping up to date on latest trends, innovations and progression in design. What\'s new and exciting in our industry? What\'s going on in the wider world that might inspire our next project?
• You will always maintain a positive and solution-based attitude.
• Deadline-oriented with the ability to prioritise and drive forward multiple projects at a time
• A proven ability to explain your creative thinking, and guide stakeholder decisions
• Client management experience is a bonus - has worked closely with clients F2F, via phone and email on a daily basis to set creative strategies, present campaign creative and regularly report progress to them

Benefits

About Inkling Culture:

At Inkling, we believe that good ideas come from your head, but that the best ideas come with heart. It\xe2\x80\x99s why, across PR, digital, influencer marketing and experiential, we go all-in to deliver ideas that have meaningful impact. That resonate with people. And that turn into powerful work.

A creative communications agency, we execute our retained work and campaigns across digital (digital and social strategy, digital media planning and creative, social media management and paid social advertising), creative (branding, art direction, content creation, graphic design), PR/advocacy (media strategy, publicity, influencer/talent partnerships) and experiential (live and digital brand experiences).

Our clients:

We work across a broad spectrum of consumer brands, corporate brands, and charities \xe2\x80\x93 Hitachi, Denby, The National Lottery, WWF, Women in Banking & Finance (WIBF), and Choose Love to name just a few.

Agency culture and values:

Our agency culture is as important as the work that we do. We cultivate an environment that is hard working but nurturing, that encourages people to be highly ambitious but always collaborative. We have five key values that we live and breathe at the agency, that are mapped back to SMART objectives and that encourage us all to care about everything we do together:

• We care about our business
• We care about our work
• Our clients are our partners
• We empower each other
• We want to do good things

We are proud to be participating in initiatives that champion environmental and social issues close to our heart. We are a member of Climate Perks and reward team members for making more sustainable choices. We are excited to welcome two black interns this summer as part of 2023\xe2\x80\x99s 10,000 black interns programme, an initiative to create opportunities for underrepresented talent in the industry. We are also proud partners of Talentino and Diverso who are improving career outcomes for ALL young people, including those with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND).

Each month, we run regular buddy dates where team members get out of the office to enjoy a cultural experience. We also offer an annual company away weekend, that is part-business and a whole lot of fun.

We work hybrid. Three days in the office together, Monday to Wednesday, based in our Old Street office. With work from home days on Thursday to Friday.

Benefits:

• Vitality Private Medical Insurance - employees eligible after probation period
• Pension \xe2\x80\x93 after three months, company contributes 3%, employee contribution is 5%
• Life assurance 4x employee\xe2\x80\x99s annual salary from day one
• Travel insurance for any work related travel
• Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme..

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