Midweight Digital Designer

Katie Loxton Ltd; Banbury; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A thriving design company in Banbury is seeking a skilled Midweight Digital Designer to create stunning visuals across various digital platforms. In this role, you will deliver high-quality artwork for emails, websites, and social media, while working closely with the UX Designer and marketing teams. The ideal candidate should have proven experience in digital asset design, proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, and excellent time management skills. This position offers a competitive salary of £27,000-£30,000, along with generous holiday leave and staff discounts.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Generous staff discount

Opportunities for growth and development

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar design role.
• Understanding of mobile e-commerce best practices.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Deliver creative artwork for digital channels including web and social media.
• Create engaging animations using Adobe After Effects.
• Work collaboratively with marketing and UX teams.

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite proficiency

Digital asset design

Design layout and typography

Customer focus

Excellent time management

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe After Effects

Figma

Job description

Overview

THE OPPORTUNITY: Are you a talented Digital Designer ready to bring your creativity to life? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and love delivering stunning visuals? We’re looking for a Midweight Digital Designer to join our fun, fast-paced and collaborative team where your creativity and design skills will truly shine. You will deliver pixel perfect assets on time and to brief, understanding branding and campaigns for ecommerce environments, considering the customer journey and engagement at different online touch points. You will take responsibility for delivering artwork for use across various channels including emails, websites, social and affiliate marketing. If creative content is ever required, you would be the person on speed dial. You will be based at our Head Office in Banbury with the freedom to work from home two days a week on average, this may flex up or down dependant on business needs. During your induction period, you will be encouraged to come in to our Banbury Head Office every day.

BEHIND THE BRANDS

We’re a family-run, entrepreneurial company with an exciting pace of life and a bright and friendly team. We are passionate about creating stunning products with a personal touch and innovating our business behind the scenes. We value creativity, collaboration and integrity.

How you'll contribute

• Delivering creative and considered artwork for all digital outputs
• Creating assets for web, emails, social channels, affiliate marketing and a variety of online features and articles, with an understanding and awareness of optimising content for site performance across all devices
• Working with the UX Designer and Ecom Team to design content pages in Figma
• Creating engaging and interactive animations across all digital channels using Adobe After Effects
• Remaining organised and proactive, support the marketing team and wider digital design team in meeting deadlines with efficiency whilst maintaining high standards
• Adapting designs across different formats with an eye for maintaining the design aesthetic across a variety of resolutions/dimensions whilst adhering to brand guidelines
• Producing elegant, accurate and legible typography, ensuring type complements the imagery required
• Demonstrating strong UX/UI and design thinking for all digital channels
• Considering mobile first solutions, budget restrictions; CMS restrictions and time constraints when managing your design tasks
• Actively contributing to team ideation sessions and working collaboratively across teams to ensure all deliverables are high-quality, on-brand, aligned with the brief and completed with the deadline
• Communicating effectively and confidently present your ideas to senior management, while embracing feedback and making amends accordingly
• Supporting the maintenance of the department asset filing using Dropbox
• Retouching imagery and capable of efficiently briefing the Retouch team on anything else required
• Helping create templates for upcoming campaigns and season launches
• Displaying excellent time management and organisation skills with proficiency in managing workflows using Monday.com
• Managing and updating CC Libraries in Adobe Photoshop for the team
• Supporting the Senior Digital Designer with day-to-day tasks
• Training and mentoring Junior members of the team
• Any other ad hoc duties as reasonably requested by the Company

The Talent You'll Bring

• Proven experience in designing digital assets within a similar industry
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, in particular Photoshop and After Effects
• Basic knowledge of Figma is essential (working with prototypes and existing wireframes alongside the UX Designer)
• Proven experience designing for digital assets with an eye for detail, and an understanding of layout, typography and good retouching skills
• Knowledge of best practice for mobile ecommerce
• Experience of working in a busy design department with marketing communications, design company or equivalent
• Customer focused with a keen eye for imagery and photography
• Understanding of web design and performance
• Creative flair, well organised, self-motivated and has a meticulous attention to detail coupled with a professional and collaborative demeanour
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills. Able to prioritise a large workload and balance multiple projects during busy periods.

Perfectly Packaged

• Salary of £27,000- £30,000 DOE
• 25 days holiday rising to 27 with length of service, plus bank holidays
• Abroad benefits package including our staff favourite – a very generous staff discount across both our brands. See all of our benefits on our careers portal
• Opportunities to make an impact as well as learn and develop further
• An innovative and friendly workplace with a team we’re proud to be part of. Find out more about us and our culture on our careers portal

Joma Jewellery was founded in 2008 by Katie and Geoff Loxton. Since then we have gone from strength to strength, launching Katie Loxton in 2015 and growing our business beyond the UK. We know that part of that growth comes from the fact that we take diversity and inclusion very seriously. We strive to be the best in our field, and we know that happens by hiring a diverse team and encouraging everyone to be their authentic selves when working with us. We don’t hire based on cultures, preferences, or personalities – it’s what you bring to the team that counts.

We are always striving to improve our way of working to be more inclusive, diverse and equal, including encouraging all team members to bring their ideas to the table as we know this is key to our continued success.