Digital Designer

Job Description

Digital DesignerHybrid Working(two days in the office per week)Please apply with your graphic-designed, PDF-style CVOur people are at the heart of our amazing company and our vision is to drive an excellent customer experience throughout the business. As our business continues to grow, we have a lot of exciting changes to make across the entire multi-channel spectrum.The short bit About the RoleYou will work closely with our trading, marketing and other commercial teams to understand our products and commercial opportunities in each category, and use this knowledge to create digital content experiences that maximise customer satisfaction and conversionrate on a brand new digital Salesforce platform.Excellent knowledge and experience of graphic and web design in an in-house or agency-side position are needed. Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are essential any additional knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is beneficial.What we will give to you!

• Excellent hands on training.
• 25% discount off our products in store!
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays).
• Holiday Purchase Scheme to increase your annual leave entitlement.
• Company pension contribution.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Life Assurance.
• Healthcare Cash Plan.
• Free Car Parking.
• Charity Giving - Pennies from Heaven and Give as you Earn.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the timely production and delivery of all digital assets, across website, display ads and email
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, diagrams, and sitemaps
• Create presentable design mock-ups of digital assets based on detailed briefs
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colours and images to the brand guidelines set
• Maintain the artwork / design and functionality of promotion campaigns/events and any supporting elements
• Work within brand guidelines and maintain a consistent multi-channel customer experience
• Maintain a consistent tone of voice, editorial decision making, graphics approval, proofing and editorial copy, user experience throughout our digital content and establish and promote design guidelines, best practice and standards
• Work with Digital Trading Manager to optimise website design
• Self - manage a high workload with speed and efficiency
• Maintaining the overall appearance and functionality of the site to a high standard
• Creating engaging and well delivered emails based of detailed briefs
• Updating site wide banners daily and aiding in any campaign updates
• Working with the marketing team to aid in the designs of google and paid campaign creatives

Requirements

• Circa 3 yearsexperience working as a Digital Designer in an in-house or agency-side position
• A portfolio of well-thought-out designs that went live, demonstrating your experience crafting interfaces and digital experiences
• Proficient with Adobe CC. Primarily Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript advantageous
• Experienced in typography and layout design.
• Able to work to deadlines and coordinate own work with that of others to ensure overall business goals are achieved
• Retail/digital experience advantageous

About YouWe are looking for an inspirational and capable individual. You will be an experienced, hands-on digital designer who understands the challenges involved in producing inspiring mass content and gets involved in the detail when required.You will be highly digitally capable and heavily involved in the content production process be that editorial, graphics, or UX workExperience of working within a retail, multi-channel environment is preferable.About The Works:We are very proud to be consistently recognised as a Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for.At The Works, we are a family! Our stores are fun to be in and jam packed with great products that our customers love...and so do we!Our mission is to offer customers a unique and enjoyable shopping experience, built on our core principles of value, variety and quality.The Works is one of the UKs leading multi-channel specialist retailers of value gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery. We are a high street retailer that bucks the trend, constantly growing and opening new stores at an amazing rate.