Midweight Designer
Riot Labs Ltd, one of the UK's leading E-liquid manufacturers has an exciting opportunity...
We're a company best known for our bold, loud, award-winning flavours and brands, our ability to throw a spectacular event and most importantly for having the very best of talented people in our team. We're proudly known to work very hard but to play harder. From our weekly Friday drinks, Summer & Christmas parties, huge promotional events for all to enjoy, unusual team building events to our random team lunches and team outings to the local pub. We are proud to say that each and every employee works hard and to the best of their ability, which gives us copious amounts of opportunities to celebrate!! Now we're looking for a Midweight Designer to join us in our FUN and excitingly unpredictable world of 'Riot Squad'.
In the role of Midweight Designer in the Riot team, you will work closely with the Creative Manager to research, develop and deliver creative projects for all brands of Riot Labs. You will be given creative freedom within the projects you work on as part of the team, and have the initiative and autonomy to lead on projects and tasks.
Responsibilities
Brand, Identity and Print Design
- Supporting the Creative Manager with the development and prototyping of brand identity concepts, including original logo designs, typography and development of brand guidelines.
- Creative layout of print design (business stationery, corporate and promotional literature, promotional items, basic packaging etc).
- Independently developing creative responses to briefs and project explorations.
- Preparing presentations of creative concepts for delivery to client.
- Undertaking print artworking and pre-press tasks as required, and contributing to creative print consultancy.
Digital Design
- Design of branded digital presentation documents in PowerPoint, Keynote and PDF format and basic document templates in MS Word format.
- Production of digital assets (Including vector/digital images, multimedia assets) for handover to technical developers.
- Basic, interactive website and app prototyping.
- Design of email marketing templates.
Technology
- Maintain awareness of current industry best practices.
- Investigate and experiment with new and emerging technologies.
- Maintain filing systems on the studio network and cloud storage solutions to required standards.
- Explore and develop new design technologies and disciplines for the purposes of service innovation.
Project Management
- Engage with existing workflow management practices, and assisting in the improvement and introduction of new workflow practices.
- Contribute to the estimation of workload and project schedules.
- Ensure that projects are kept within brief, budget and timelines.
New Business & Marketing
- Contribute to development of content for the Riot blog and social media channels.
- Prepare print and digital outputs for internal and promotional uses, including the Riot website.
- Promoting the team’s capabilities and take an active role in delivering pitches as and when required.
Key Skills & Experience
- At least 2 years design experience in an in-house design team or design and marketing agency, or 3+ years experience as a freelance designer.
- Educated to at least HND level - study to degree level in a related subject an advantage.
- Mac literate, and high-level of familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD.
- Experience with Adobe AfterEffects, Adobe Animate, Adobe Premier, Sketch and InVision an advantage.
- Understanding of technical factors and limitations relating to production of designs for digital and print contexts
- An understanding of HTML, CSS, other web technologies and web development processes preferred.
- Experience with as many as possible of the following web platforms an advantage - CraftCMS, Shopify, Mailchimp, Wistia, Trello, Wrike.
