Joining the brand and design arm of an independent London creative agency known for culture-first advertising that travels, you’d move between brand exploration and campaign craft rather than picking one. This is a growth hire, not a backfill: the design offering is scaling under a new MD, and there are plans for several more designers over the coming year. The Role You’d take creative ideas that already exist and give them a distinctive visual voice by building the design systems, campaign lock-ups and craft that scale a single thought across a whole campaign ecosystem.
Your strength is craft and systems thinking – receiving a direction and amplifying it into something polished and scalable. Much of the near-term work sits around the four-year football platform: campaign identities, title treatments, lock-ups and championship wrappers. Motion skills matter too; the team’s motion-leaning junior is stretched, so After Effects capability would be useful. The Package £40,000 – £50,000 Hybrid working: three days in the office Certified B Corp, with one of its strongest scores in how it treats its people The Person You’re a Midweight Designer a few years in, working in a studio or agency design team.
You describe yourself as a craftsperson more than an explorer – comfortable receiving an installed idea and building it out into a considered system. A background leaning toward advertising-shaped design suits this well. Motion is a bonus. An interest in football is one too, given the workload ahead.