Start date: Immediate Start
About AlphaSights
AlphaSights is the global leader in knowledge on-demand. We connect investors and business leaders with the knowledge they need to succeed. Working from nine cities globally, our 1500+ colleagues provide round-the-clock coverage to the world's top investment funds, consultancies, and businesses. Learn more about us at alphasights.com.
The Mid-Senior Graphic Designer role
As AlphaSights continues to grow, we’re looking to add a talented Mid Weight – Senior Graphic Designer to our small, but close-knit in-house design team. Based in London and reporting to the Brand Design Director, you’ll drive creative output for a variety of projects, lead on strategic campaigns, and be responsible for mentoring and inspiring junior members of the team. You’ll be a brilliant designer, confident storyteller, versatile, and willing to apply design-thinking across all stages of the creative process; from immersion, strategy, and implementation.
What you’ll be responsible for
- Generating interesting, beautifully executed creative work, leading the output on projects through every stage of development, and providing creative input at brainstorms and weekly design catch-ups.
- Leading on creative ideation, execution, and roll-out of strategic campaign projects during our recruiting seasons
- Helping develop guidelines, icons, imagery and videos to ensure all touchpoints are cohesive and on brand
- Creating engaging one-pagers, information sheets and other literature
- 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
- Project managing work and collaborating with other internal teams to ensure briefs are fully explored, manage expectations of stakeholders, and deliver what is needed from concept to completion.
- Effectively distilling and communicating direction to the team after stakeholder feedback
- Supporting the Studio Manager to ensure work gets delivered on time
- Managing external vendors and freelancers when needed to ensure they deliver to high standards
- Pursuing and maintaining exceptional levels of craft with the highest design standard and attention to detail
- Mentoring Junior Designers with encouragement and constructive feedback, inspiring them with your energy, enthusiasm, and love of design
- Act as an AlphaSights Brand Guardian, ensuring all work is to the highest standard
What we’re looking for
- 2 – 3+ years of relevant industry experience gained in a commercial environment
- 2:1 or higher obtained at bachelor level in a design-related field, preferably graphic design
- A stunning portfolio or showreel that demonstrates concept-driven design and superbly crafted projects. We want to see versatility, experimentation, system-thinking and evidence of having worked on a range of print and digital projects from start to finish
- You’ll need to be a creative, inquisitive sort, bursting with ideas and have an instinctive flair for layout and typography
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to turn complex ideas into clearly understandable visuals
- Strong people skills. You should be comfortable working as a team, confident in conducting interviews, and interacting with senior stakeholders. You’ll also need to be open minded, flexible, and not precious about your work
- You’ll have some experience creating and managing visual, verbal and strategic campaign projects
- Excellent communication and presentation skills. You’ll have a natural aptitude for connecting with people, be mature, perceptive, and able to ‘read’ a room
- A great planner who thinks ahead and is able to juggle and prioritise multiple projects
- 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 wants to grow as a team member and design professional
Technical skills
- High level of skill using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat
- Good working knowledge of Google Slides, Google Docs, Powerpoint, and Word
- Understanding of peripheral design processes (e.g. print production, liaising and briefing suppliers, working with specialists, etc)
- Motion is an advantage (but not a must!): After Effects, Premiere Pro, Cinema 4D,
Compensation and benefits
- Total first year compensation: £38,000 – £45,000 (depending on experience)
- Career progression opportunities 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.
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