Senior Creative Designer – Sports Design Agency

SENIOR DESIGNER

Reports to:

Design Director and Creative Director

This will be working with a creative agency who combine their passion of sport and design. Whether it’s working on content, branding, digital or motion their audience is always their focus. You will be joining a team of designers, copy writers, art directors, animators and developers who are passionate about what they do and working together as a team.

Role Summary:

As a senior member of the creative design team, you will help to lead and inspire an incredibly talented groups of individuals who will be partnering with you to create amazing work. Your role will focus on making sense of client briefs and producing incredible creative and thoughtful designs for your clients.

Key responsibilities:

• Creativity- Delivering conceptual work to the highest creative standards. Able to translate strategic thinking into relevant, unique and creative work. Should be curious and pull together visual and cultural references to define ideas.

• Delivery- Organising activities, task flow and responsibilities within projects to ensure deadlines and timelines are met.

• Client Management- Coordinate and assist the Design Director to plan client projects, presentations and attending client meetings.

• Leadership- Be able to lead, manage, inspire and delegate.
  Be comfortable in leading and being led.

• Communication- Talking passionately and confidently to clients and colleagues about our work, with a hunger to take the lead in internal and client meetings.

• Best Practise- Working closely with Design Director and often senior members of staff to help develop and nurture the creative studio and creative standards. Contribute to inspiring a culture of creativity and digital innovation.

• Mentoring- Motivating, nurturing and inspiring the junior team members. Attend events and universities to find emerging talent.

General Responsibilities:

• Convert ideas from the business into viable concepts and designs.

• Using an exceptional level of creative thinking to push the boundaries of each project and produce work that is highly innovative.

• Work on your own initiative to drive innovative & distinct designs to bring brands to life.

• Present design to clients and confidently explain creative rationale.

• Convert ideas from the client brief into viable concepts and designs.

Required Skills (Job related skills and personality traits):

• Strong design and brand background/experience.
• Ability to inspire and motivate those around you through effective leadership skills.
• Ability to develop strong creative solutions.
• Demonstrable experience of liaising and developing client relationships.
• Proven ability in offering a multi-skilled and challenging outlook to creative briefs.
• Has contributed to inspiring a culture of creativity.
• Ability to define what makes a brand unique and shown the talent
  to express this in a compelling manner.
• Has pushed for great work, in ones self and others.
• Demonstrate excellent communication and organization skills.
• You’ll possess excellent attention to detail and focus on consistency and accuracy.
• You’ll have a strong appreciation for brand philosophy and values.

Qualifications

(Relevant academic qualifications, any tools and technologies)

• Bachelor’s degree or Design related qualification.
• Knowledge in creative/design software such as illustrator, photoshop, InDesign, etc

Experience (Guide line for number of years of experience):

• Award winning portfolio and noted creative/branding agency experience.
• 8+ years experience in design role.