Digital Designer
Location: London, W1D
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
1000Heads
We are a Word of Mouth agency with social expertise at our core. For more than 18 years we have helped brands’ stories to travel further and faster, building sustained advocacy and recommendation.
We believe in creativity without boundaries, enabling us to be free-thinkers, unburdened by what we have done before. Every day we strive to bring world-stopping social ideas to life that inspire participation, conversation and sharing.
The role
1000heads visual creatives share a passion for ideation and turning those into engaging top-notch creative visuals. This role is to boost our team with a graphic designer / creative who can help tell stories through imagery, illustration, and animation (on-screen motion graphics and/or stop motion). The role will see you working alongside the rest of the creative team but primarily on our extensive range of beauty and lifestyle accounts.
Solid creative thinking, problem solving and a love for beauty and social media are also heavily valued within this role. We are a passionate, proactive and close design team, brimming with talent, enthusiasm and banter. We’re looking for someone who loves what they do and will bring their own brand of spark, vim and vigor to the agency.
Day-To-Day Activities Typically Include
- Create visual material for online and offline consumption
- Multi-media motion graphics
- Creative thinking to a brief, on your own or as a team
- Organisation of project workflow
- Creative ideation
- Delivering storyboards and visuals
- Liaising with fellow team members, client service and community teams
This job description is not intended to cover everything that will be expected of you but rather to act as a guide and you may be required to get involved in additional ad hoc projects.
Responsibilities
- A design innovator, we’re looking for someone who wants to work on and push forward the cutting edge of design and social
- Exceptional organisational skills
- Conceptualise a brief from issue through to artwork and implementation
- Ensure you understand the requirements of the brief and explain how the visual meets the client strategy
- Meticulous visuals and finished assets delivered on time, consistently on brand and in a cost-effective manner
- Liaise with other heads to deliver projects as a team
- Stay up-to-date with social platforms and industry trends
- Ad hoc duties as required by the company
Key Skills
- Intrapreneurial, with a team-player approach and a can-do attitude to go with it
- Passionate
- A solid knowledge of a range of social platforms
- A love and awareness for beauty and fashion trends on social
- An in-depth knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects
- Must be able to shoot (mostly in-studio) photography
- Be a dab hand at post-processing and compositing
- Ability to quickly convey ideas through drawings and storyboards
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Good communication skills
- Proactive problem solving
- A proven experience of creative in an agency environment is useful but not essential
- Qualifications Required
- Design degree preferred by not essential
Some perks you can expect at 1000heads:
- Additional holiday during the Christmas period
- Subsidised gym membership
- Private medical insurance
- "1000 thank you’s" – a monthly employee recognition programme
- Company bonus scheme
- A generous recruitment referral bonus if you introduce a friend to 1000heads and they end up working with us
- Cycle to work scheme
- A dedicated personal development budget for each person
- Free Monday breakfasts
- Free fruit during the week
- Friday drinks
- Regular in-house social activities like: yoga, boxing classes, drawing classes, cocktail making, etc
- Annual company socials/ away days at Summer and Christmas
Next Steps
To express your interest in our vacancy for a Digital Designer, please press Apply and submit a copy of your CV for consideration.