Digital Designer
We're looking for a talented Digital Designer to join our small but mighty team for 3 days per week for 6 months (with a view to continue ongoing).
SALARY: £32k - £38k (pro rata)
CONTRACT TYPE: 6 months initially
About the job
We're looking for a talented Digital Designer to join our small but mighty team for 3 days per week for 6 months (with a view to continue ongoing).
We're open to candidates who can either do 3 full days, or those who would benefit from spreading out the same hours across more days to achieve shorter days.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for all things design but especially web and video/motion focussed and a portfolio demonstrating a keen eye for aesthetic quality, attention to detail and clever solutions to real human problems.
We are looking for a designer who puts ‘the customer’ at the heart of everything. Someone who can understand our client’s needs and find a balance with the needs of their customers.
You can run projects from concept through to delivery in tandem with the team, by researching and translating business and human needs into meaningful, easy-to-use, and engaging creative solutions across various platforms.
The opportunity
We're embarking on an exciting phase of our journey and are looking for someone to join us on it.
Day-to-day, you will be helping our clients maximise their digital brand experiences, working on brand definition, UI prototyping, web applications, multi-site CMS-based websites and smaller static brochure sites. We're also super keen to continue to translate our designs into motion graphics and video - there’s plenty of variety to be had.
You must be able to create designs that translate across both offline and online media.
You’ll enjoy solving problems, either big or small and can use your design knowledge and skills to do so. You will have demonstrable experience and knowledge across the Adobe Creative suite and Figma. We need designers who desire to produce accessible, performant and positive digital brand experiences.
About MAJOR
Making things better than they were before, everyday.
Designing and building robust and remarkable brand experiences and digital products, through restless innovation and constantly evolving expertise over the past 17+ years. MAJOR are a small but mighty team based in Brighton. And we really love what we do.
Our core essence is that we invest wholeheartedly in the belief of better.
Our mission is to treat our client’s problems as if they were our own and remain committed to delivering unforgettable work. We love our work and take pride in what we do.
Ensuring our team has a healthy work-life balance is key to delivering effectively so we’re flexible to both regular working options and ad-hoc requirements to ensure everyone remains happy and energised.
Our office is located at the new innovation hub Plus X in Brighton and like the team to be in 1-2 days a week minimum.
Responsibilities
You’ll have proven agency experience.
Your role is essential in helping deliver remarkable digital brand experiences through:
Collaborating with the MAJOR team to understand our client's problems.
Creating high-quality websites, digital UIs, and other digital collateral.
Participating in the entire lifecycle of a project, from discovery, to build, to continuous improvement.
Conceptualise, design, and implementing creative graphics and digital content on time and within budget.
Developing and maintaining brand consistency across all creative projects.
Presenting design ideas confidently and succinctly and receiving feedback with an open mind.
Excellent communication skills and an ability to make the complicated sound easy and simple are paramount.
Being a key part of our journey in the belief of better.
You and this role
3+ years of relevant agency experience in a similar role.
3 days per week (either as full days or spread across multiple days)
Familiarity with design strategy and brand design principles.
Proficient in design and prototyping technologies (Adobe Suite, Figma).
Experience with animation and/or video is beneficial.
Able to bring something new and fresh to the team.
Strong creative thinking skills with an ability to solve design problems and overcome design challenges.
Full-time hours preferable, but open to those who require more flexibility.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
UK-based and able to travel to Brighton (1-2 days a week minimum).
Benefits
£32,000 - £38,000 depending on experience (pro rata)
Minimum 25 days holiday (pro rata) plus bank holidays & your birthday off
Company pension contributions
Flexible working hours with hybrid working
Yearly training budget
Enhanced maternity / paternity leave
Regular team socials that help bring us all together
How to apply
MAJOR is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Send your CV, a cover letter and a portfolio link to jobs@majordigital.com.
Please detail your skills and experience and provide examples of how you’ve solved design problems for clients (for agency projects you’ve been involved in – detail what aspects you worked on).
Please note, we will be interviewing as soon as we receive applications. We will contact you if we’d like to take your application further.
Join us in making the future of digital design better, at MAJOR.
Next steps
If successful in your initial application, we’ll move forward with a three stage interview process:
Initial Screening — 15 minute call with Creative Director.
Expertise Screening and Task Development — 45 minute call with Creative Director to go through the output of a design task.
Culture Add Interview — 1 hour face-to-face with two of our Directors.
* No recruitment agencies, please. We don’t have budget allocations for recruitment agencies, so please, save yourself the email or phone call.
