Kairos recruitment group

Graphic Designer

16/01/2025
full-time
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Job Description

Overview:
We are seeking a talented and creative Graphic Designer to join a fun digital agency in Cheshire. The ideal candidate will possess a strong portfolio showcasing their expertise in illustrative design and typography. The ideal candidate should be proficient in using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and have a background in creating visually engaging designs that effectively communicate their brand message.

Key Responsibilities as a Graphic Designer:

  • Design and create high-quality graphics for email campaigns, ensuring they are visually appealing and aligned with brand guidelines.
  • Develop eye-catching ad graphics for social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Snapchat.
  • Collaborate with the marketing team to conceptualise and execute creative campaigns that drive engagement and conversions.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest design trends and digital marketing strategies to ensure content is fresh and innovative.
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining high-quality standards.
  • Edit and optimise graphics for different formats and devices to ensure the best user experience across all platforms.
  • Work closely with clients to understand their needs and deliver designs that meet their objectives

Qualifications:

  • Proven experience as a Graphic Designer, preferably in a digital marketing agency or similar environment.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing your design skills, particularly in digital media and social media graphics.
  • Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects).
  • Understanding of design principles, typography, colour theory, and layout techniques.
  • Knowledge of current social media trends and best practices for creating engaging content.
  • Ability to take creative direction and collaborate effectively with team members and clients.
  • Excellent communication and time management skills.
  • Attention to detail and a passion for creating high-quality work.

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience with video editing and animation is a plus.
  • Familiarity with HTML and CSS for email design.
  • Knowledge of UX/UI principles for creating user-friendly digital experiences

If you feel you’d be well suited for this Graphic Designer role, press ‘apply’ or contact Willow Brown @ KRG (0161 543 1978) for further info.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

  • Casual dress
  • Free parking
  • On-site parking
  • Work from home

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Altrincham WA14 2EJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

  • Do you have a portfolio? If so, please attach here.

Experience:

  • Graphic design: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

  • United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Altrincham WA14 2EJ

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About the role

The successful candidate will be part of a small in-house Design Team, working within a large international Marketing team. Reporting to the Design & Brand Manager, you will be responsible for producing visually appealing and effective designs that communicate our brand message and resonate with our target audience. You will have a passion for video production and digital tools and will be responsible for creating innovative designs for a wide range of multimedia platforms, digital and print; including websites, social media, advertisements, presentations, exhibitions, and other marketing materials.


About Kingspan Light, Air + Water

Kingspan Light, Air + Water is a division of Kingspan Group operating in 20 countries across the globe. We design manufacture and service natural daylighting, smoke ventilation, water, and safe storage solutions. Our solutions are designed to ensure the buildings of the future deliver more. We do this in a way that combats climate change while optimizing the benefits of daylighting, fresh clean air and sustainable water. Our purpose is to make a difference in everything we do, while improving the comfort safety and wellbeing of our buildings occupants whilst protecting our worlds natural resources.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with the marketing team to develop design concepts and creative solutions for various projects, including but not limited to print materials, digital assets, packaging, and signage
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to produce effective and engaging multimedia content
  • Maintain brand guidelines and ensure consistency across all marketing materials and platforms
  • Manage multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines
  • Create engaging multimedia projects including video/ animations to support marketing initiatives
  • Stay up-to-date with current design trends and technologies to continuously improve and evolve multimedia offerings


Qualifications/ Skills/ Attributes:


Essential:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent higher-level qualification in Graphic Design, Multimedia Design, or a related field
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and particularly Video Production (After Effects, Premiere Pro)
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating skills and creativity in video production, and graphic design
  • Strong understanding of design principles, colour theory, and typography
  • Genuine team player with excellent communication skills
  • Detail-oriented and organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
  • Proficiency in Microsoft programmes (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)


Desirable:

  • 2 years of employment experience in graphic design, this could be in a business/ marketing or agency setting
  • Experience in 3D rendering (KeyShot or similar)
  • Photography/ videography skills


Why Join Us?

  • Benefits: Company pension, life insurance, hybrid working 3 days a week onsite and 2 days at home, cycle-to-work scheme, employee discounts, on-site parking, and referral bonuses.
  • Supportive Work Environment: We are an Equal Opportunities employer, committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace with opportunities for growth and development.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends

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04/12/2024
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Job Description

IMPORTANT: PLEASE INCLUDE A LINK TO YOUR PORTFOLIO WITH YOUR APPLICATION. ANY APPLICATION WITHOUT A PORTFOLIO WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED.

Design Cloud is changing the way that businesses work with graphic designers. We’re bucking the trend of traditional graphic design agencies by offering a unique flat-rate subscription service powered by cloud-based software, exceptional customer support and a rapidly expanding team of friendly, positive and ambitious creatives.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a next-generation, remote-first, fast-paced creative business located in central Manchester. We have an international client base spanning across technology, e-commerce, music and festivals, insurance, real estate, recruitment, finance, construction and many more.

We’re looking for next-level creative talent with grit and determination to join us on our journey to becoming the No.1 graphic design subscription service in Europe.

As a Design Cloud designer, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality graphic design work across a diverse set of daily requests from our varied client base.

In a typical day, you could be working on everything from graphics for online and offline advertising campaigns, website and app prototypes, designing presentations for sales pitches, social media content, photo editing, amending or creating brochures, designing merchandise and even just updating text in an existing document.

Please send a link to an up to date portfolio accompanying your application:

What you’ll be doing day-to-day:

  • Communicating directly with our customers through our platform and Slack messenger.
  • Executing daily graphic design requests from client briefs.
  • Ensure requests are being delivered to an exceptional standard and on time.
  • Reviewing and proofreading your own work for accuracy and quality control.
  • Pitching in with design ideas for Design Cloud advertising and marketing campaigns.

Essential Skills & Requirements:

  • Friendly, positive attitude with a can-do mentality and hunger to develop new skills in graphic design.
  • Highly organised with an exceptional eye for detail and passion for current and future design trends.
  • Minimum of 3yrs commercial experience working full time in the creative industry. Agency experience is preferred or working as a busy in-house graphic designer.
  • Razor-sharp, diverse portfolio of varied graphic design work. We’re looking for neat and tidy layout work above all. Please don’t just send a portfolio of logos.
  • Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite products, specifically, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. (You will be asked to demonstrate your design skills as part of the interview process)
  • Ability to quickly and accurately respond to briefs. The majority of our client design requests require a rapid turnaround and all requests must be delivered to a high standard. (You will be asked to demonstrate your ability to read a brief and tested on how quickly you can produce a draft as part of the interview process)
  • Thrive on working in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent written and communication skills with the ability to proof-read your own work before sending it back to clients is crucial.
  • Experience in communicating directly with clients is desired but not essential.
  • Possess the ability to look up and learn how to do new things if you’re unsure or have questions.

Job Duties:

  • Collaborate with other teams and use feedback to develop final drafts
  • Revise the work of previous designers, making sure that designs meet guidelines and are consistent across formats
  • Work on multiple projects at once whilst consistently adhering to tight deadlines
  • Communicate frequently with clients to update them on the progress of the project and to answer any questions they might have
  • Other duties as requested

How Design Cloud will help your career

Due to the diversity of the design requests you’ll be working through on a daily basis, you will develop an invaluable set of skills that will level-up your design career in many ways:

  • You’ll supercharge your skills further and learn about styling, typography and layouts for designs across multiple commercial markets in a short space of time.
  • You’ll enhance your skills in time and project management as you will be required to work with multiple clients simultaneously and to tight deadlines.
  • We have regular team collaboration meetings to discuss design ideas and trends, review work amongst each other and give constructive feedback to help each other develop further.

Benefits

  • Work from home position
  • Apple Computer
  • Quarterly team socials/nights out. (Post COVID)
  • Exciting, fast-paced, fun and friendly working environment
  • 33 days paid annual leave (Including bank holidays, 3 days over the Christmas period and 4 half days for team social events)
  • Opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing company with a rapidly expanding client base and ambitions to become the leading subscription-based graphic design service in Europe.
  • Nest pension scheme

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Company events
  • Work from home

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

  • Do you have agency or in-house experience?
  • How many briefs do you work on during an average day?
  • Do you have experience working in Figma?

Experience:

  • Adobe Creative Suite: 5 years (required)
  • Graphic design: 4 years (required)

Work authorisation:

  • United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester, Greater Manchester

Reference ID: DC-01

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