Available Start Dates: July 2023
About AlphaSights
AlphaSights was born with a purpose: to unlock human knowledge and power success. From our state-of-the-art offices in nine major world cities, we connect business leaders seeking knowledge with the experts who possess it. We’re one of the fastest-growing global companies, employing 1500+ colleagues of 60+ nationalities.
What we do
We operate at the heart of the global knowledge economy, providing a suite of knowledge-on-demand services to investment funds, consultancies, Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits. Our clients use our services when evaluating critical investment and business decisions. We connect them with industry experts who possess specific knowledge that is otherwise unavailable to them.
We’re a fast-paced, client-driven service organization. We respond to client inquiries within minutes and deliver within hours. When deadlines are tight, and when robust insight is make or break, our clients count on us.
The Junior Graphic Designer role
As AlphaSights continues to grow, we’re looking to add a talented Junior Graphic Designer to our small, but close-knit in-house design team. Based in London and reporting to the Brand Design Director, this is an exciting hands-on role in which you’ll be responsible for designing and creating a wide variety of digital and print assets, as well as supporting the wider team on more strategic and tactical projects. If you’re an ambitious and hard-working self-starter, with a strong passion for design, and a desire to bring value to your team, then we have the perfect job for you!
You’ll be responsible for
- Providing creative input at brainstorm sessions and weekly design feedback sessions
- Creating engaging one-pagers, information sheets and other literature
- Ideating and designing infographics to showcase data reports & presentations
- Creating a range of graphics for social media and internal communications
- Designing striking, on-brand Google-Slides and Google-Docs presentations
- Creating occasional graphics for the website, taking into account UX/UI principles
- Helping create motion graphics and videos if you have the skills, or are willing to learn
- Developing guidelines, icons, and imagery to ensure all touchpoints are cohesive
- Act as an AlphaSights Brand Guardian to ensure all work is on-brand
What we’re looking for
- 3 months – 1 year of relevant design experience gained in a commercial environment
- 2:1 or above obtained at bachelor level in a design-related field, preferably graphic design
- Strong academic credentials and noteworthy extracurricular leadership
- You’ll need to be a creative, inquisitive sort, bursting with ideas, and have an instinctive flair for layout, typography and an eye for detail
- A glowing portfolio or showreel showcasing your best design work. We want to see impressive layout skills, examples of brand or typography projects, good technical skills and intelligent design thinking
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to turn complex ideas into clearly understandable visuals
- Excellent communication skills with a natural aptitude for connecting with people. You’ll need to be open minded, flexible, and not precious or protective about your work
- A resilient, positive outlook. Someone who’s not easily fazed by tight deadlines and able to pivot at short notice when needed
- An ambitious, quick learner with a can-do-attitude who loves to learn new things and improve themselves
Technical skills
- Good working knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat
- Good working knowledge of Google Slides, Google Docs, Powerpoint, and Word
- Motion is an advantage (but not a must!): After Effects, Premiere Pro, Cinema 4D
Compensation and benefits
- Total first year compensation: £30,000
- Clear career progression with a highly supportive culture that emphasises transparency, continuous feedback, professional development, and celebrating success
- Professional development budget and 3 paid days a year to attend courses, or learn new design skills
- 4% matched pension contribution on qualified earnings
- Comprehensive private health insurance coverage and dental insurance
- 25 vacation days, 9 company holidays & business closure during winter holiday week
- Option to work from home up to 4 days a week
- Other Perks: Subsidised lunch, complimentary breakfast & snacks, corporate gym rates, iPhone and MacBook Pro for work
For more information about the Marketing team and our benefits, visit https://www.alphasights.com/careers/marketing.
You can also check out some of our best work from last year by clicking on the video link below.
AlphaSights is an equal opportunity employer.
Please note that AlphaSights communicates exclusively by email through the AlphaSights domain, @alphasights.com, LinkedIn and phone (including via text, WhatsApp and WeChat). Any communications you receive that purport to come from AlphaSights but have been sent from another email domain (e.g. Gmail or Hotmail) or via other forms of social media (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Telegram) are likely to be fraudulent. If in doubt as to whether you have received a genuine communication from AlphaSights, please contact us.
