Junior UI Designer

Description

Junior Graphic &/or UI Designer

Contract: Permanent

Reporting to: Experience Creative & Design Director

Based on South Bank, our specialist team brings together talent from some of the best of WPPs global agencies to deliver strategic, creative and operational expertise to our global client in the EU.

Our client is a world leading automotive, and we are working on a global programme to evolve end to end customer experience, develop new ownership and mobility services centering around web, mobile and in vehicle technology. Working in a highly agile way our team is responsible for driving the strategy in the EU, UX & design of customer experiences (working closely with the client’s global IT team) and the creation of marketing communications assets to drive customer awareness and engagement and a supporting with wide range of related initiatives. This is a unique opportunity to join a team that is at the forefront of the client’s transformation agenda.

With a solid foundation in UI design, you’ll have agency experience creating promotional materials, brand assets for online and offline media, presentations and manipulating images. A keen eye for clean and simple design, superior UI skills that can translate briefs and scamps into exciting layouts, using current design software.

On a day-to-day basis, you’ll be working closely with the creative and development teams to deliver a unified approach. You’ll be part of a nimble design team and work closely with the product team to deliver internal and external marketing materials true to product.

Key Responsibilities And Challenges

• Execute all visual design stages from concept to delivery.
• Help conceptualize original ideas from briefing documents.
• Execute designs across multiple formats against clear art direction.
• Present designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and more senior stakeholders.
• Work to design guidelines, best practices and standards defined by senior design leaders.
• Help define and guard growing design systems across multiple application work streams.
• Support design team in creating assets for cross discipline creative including, mobile, web, brand communications and content.
• Create beautiful, compelling presentations templates and documents against internal client requirements.
• Work and give feedback in cross-disciplinary projects to deliver outstanding design.
• Seek to stay current with latest design trends, seeking new opportunities to create unique visualisations.

Requirements

• Proven experience working in an agency as an all rounder Graphic Designer (Digital & Print) for 1-2 years.
• Experience marketing materials for live brands.
• Strong portfolio of key projects delivered, calling out your role on the project, deliverables, responsibilities and successes achieved.
• Some familiarity with the technical considerations needed when designing for mobile and web.
• Ability to work gracefully and have a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment.
• High proficiency in Adobe creative suite.
• High proficiency in PowerPoint & Keynote.
• Proficiency in Sketch and Figma.
• Experience working with design patterns, systems and component libraries.
• Worked within collaborative, cross-functional teams to deliver multiple, successful projects
• Positive and open attitude to new design techniques.
• Posses an excellent working knowledge of creative processes and techniques.
• Excellent typography and layout skills, with meticulous attention to detail.

Nice to have: 

• Experience working alongside Product teams
• Confident presentation skills.