Digital Designer (Mid-Level)

Greenlight has lived and breathed digital since 2001, when we started as three people in an old North London print shop. Today, we’re a full-service digital and commerce agency made up of 170 people, with a reputation for producing integrated, transformational strategies across the entire digital space. We’re still run by the very same people who set us up, and we’re proud to be independent. It means we can move more quickly, boldly and effectively. We’re the people that grow our clients’ business, by putting their customers first. And with over 140 nominations and awards under our belts, we think we must be doing something right.

Job purpose

We’re looking for a midweight digital designer to join our creative team of 6 designers and 4 developers. You can check out some out creative work here.

You’re  a digital designer with several years’ experience. You’ve learnt the ropes in agency land, moved up through the ranks and are now confident in your own ability to take a brief and lead the response.

Aside from being a visual virtuoso, you’re a rock in support of your team. You can art direct, you’re up for debating ideas and direction and happy working in close collaboration with front and backend devs to bring ideas to life. You may even write the odd line of CSS yourself, and you might have a bit of print design in your back pocket.

You’re brave and fearless in the ideas and visuals your put forward, but you also pay great attention to detail, checking your response against the brief and making sure every pixel is in the right place.

You’re adaptable, quick thinking, curious and never satisfied. 

Role & responsibility

The right candidate will have excellent design skills and a strong understanding of digital. They will be given the opportunity to work on a wide range of design projects across our spectrum of clients – from interactive content pieces, to chunky design and build projects, branding and more.

List incoming…

·        Liaising with clients and in-house teams to write creative briefs

·        Leading on responses to briefs

·        Creating brave, innovative ideas and design

·        Art direction

·        Liaising with project managers and other departmental project stakeholders

·        Presenting work to clients and articulating your design solutions

·        Sharing your knowledge about your expertise, as well as soaking up opportunities to learn from others

·        Taking ownership and responsibility for client deliverables

·        Ensuring work is delivered within budget and time constraints

Nice to haves include:

·        Motion graphics experience

·        Illustration skills

·        An understanding and experience in UX design

Qualification & skills requirements

·        3-5 (or over) years experience

·        Proven track record of design idea and concept generation and development (if that includes campaign/ad ideas, even better)

·        A strong knowledge of usability and interaction design

·        Design skills that extend beyond digital design into branding, typography & concepting.

·        A strong understanding of digital trends and responsive web

·        Hands-on HTML/CCS coding skills would be a bonus

·        Fluent knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Invision – the usual industry standards

·        Creative and strategic thinking to identify new opportunities and innovations

·        Great client facing, communication and presentation skills

·        A solid portfolio of work to demonstrate your skills

What you'll get

Our employees make us who we are, so to make sure we attract and retain the best and brightest brains in the industry, we offer an attractive benefits package. As well as all the usual perks you would expect from a leading agency (stylish office, tick! Pool table, tick! Friday beers, tick! daily breakfast and fruit, tick!), here are a few more benefits we think you might also like:

• Flexi time: Do your daily hours any time between 8h00-10h00 and 16h30-18h30
• Above-statutory employer’s pension contribution: It matters, so we make sure it’s done properly (3% contribution)
• Private medical insurance: To keep you fighting fit and give you and your family peace of mind
• Life assurance and income protection: We know it feels good to be covered, just in case
• On-site physio: Fortnightly visits from a highly skilled and qualified physiotherapist
• Yoga classes: Weekly hour-long sessions for the yogis among us
• Mindfulness sessions: To teach you stress-busting, headspace-increasing techniques