Financial Times: Midweight Designer (12M FTC)

Designer is needed in United Kingdom.

Financial Times is seeking a Midweight Designer. This job was crawled from the web.

Location: London, UK

Contract: 12 Months FTC

Job Purpose

The Midweight Designer will be part of a team of six designers. The main job function is the hands-on production of visual marketing and communication assets for FT Live’s events, which number several hundred per year. The Midweight Designer will join our lively, enthusiastic and highly-skilled team which works together to ensure that FT Live is successful in maintaining and further developing a strong, sustainable events business across both digital and in-person events.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Development of beautiful and eye catching creative routes for our digital and hybrid (digital / in person) events, within agreed brand guidelines
• Once creative route is agreed, executing it across a range of communication materials. Materials will include:
• Social media graphics, web banners, digital advertisements, websites, HTML emails, video and animation assets, printed and electronic brochures and invitations, press advertisements, physical stage set and at-event banners.
• Delegating tasks to Junior Designers and guiding them on correct application of the brand, and on how to work effectively with the tools and platforms available
• Deliver high-quality work on time, to strict deadlines and within brand guidelines
• Briefing and management of projects through external third-party suppliers, for example printers and video editors
• Manage competing priorities across different projects, understands departmental goals and prioritises and delegates tasks accordingly
• Accept, respond to and action feedback from stakeholders on designs
• Assist the Head of Design and Senior Designer with the development, rollout and communication of design processes, platforms and systems

Key Skills & Experience:

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate that they have the following:

• A recognised design qualification
• A minimum of two years of previous design experience in an organisation of similar standing to the FT
• A portfolio of exceptional design work from commercial projects, which showcases creative development work as well as execution of designs across assets
• An enthusiasm for typography
• Strong skills in Adobe Creative Cloud packages such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
• A keen eye for detail
• A confident communication style, comfortable presenting ideas to peers and design decisions to stakeholders
• Ability to work in the Mac OSX operating system, in the Google Workspace and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite
• A desire to develop new skills (technical, design and soft skills), and an ability to adjust to using new technologies and platforms rapidly