Designer

Boldspace are looking for a Designer to play a key role in driving our agency's continued growth and success within our Creative Services team.

About Boldspace

Boldspace is an integrated brand value agency of 50 talented employees. We grow your meaning, your reputation and your worth through brand building, communications and analytics. We bring together advertising, marketing and PR through a pioneering approach - fusing our award-winning proprietary analytics platform BoldLensTM with the finest strategic and creative minds to see more, create better and find the gap.

The workload will be varied across branding, web design, social and broader advertising as well as Boldspace’s presentation, pitch and marketing efforts. Great design is an essential part of furthering our purpose of making an objective, positive impact by building meaningful brands and creating bold communications. This role will flow out of our brand strategy and inject distinctive impact into our branding, creative advertising and PR.

The ideal candidate will have around over 4 years' experience and bring a true creative spirit to the role, having worked building compelling brand identities and guidelines, designing striking websites and creating beautiful, flawless decks.

A strong portfolio and the ability to come up with varied options in response to a brief, backed with strong creative justifications is essential. We want someone who understands adding and taking away cultural meanings to and from their designs depending on the brief and the strategy. We want someone who wants a challenge, joining an exciting agency doing things differently. We want someone with a viewpoint who is driven, meticulously detail-focused and who can present work passionately, with conviction.

Requirements

The successful candidate will cover varied client work as well as overseeing Boldspace’s content and collateral.

Reporting to a senior manager, you'll be a significant contributor to our activity and development as we continue to grow our portfolio. You'll be required to take ownership of creative briefs, sometimes working alone and at other times working as a team to meet internal and client requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the design standards of the agency with bold, beautiful work
• Lead various client projects across branding, web, social and advertising assets
• Bring a strong understanding of typography, layout, and brand identity principles
• Design a varied range of assets for the agency from pitch documents to social campaigns and development of our own brand.
• Develop creative concepts and produce innovative artwork style guides
• Confidently present design concepts.
• Identify key trends and creative developments inside and outside of the industry.

Key Skills

• Must have a good working knowledge of the Adobe package: Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage your own time well.
• Detail-oriented, proactive, and excited to contribute ideas to evolve our creative processes.
• Proficiency in Web design and using a broad range of tools, especially Figma.
• A desire to develop within the company and contribute with ideas to improve processes and practices.
• Motion design skills (After Effects or similar) highly desirable.
• Familiarity with AI design tools (e.g. Firefly, Runway, Midjourney, chat GPT) and a thoughtful perspective on how they support - not replace - craft.

Benefits

• Pensions: a 5% employer contribution.
• Private Healthcare: Vitality
• Equipment: choose your own equipment – let us know which tools you need and we’ll do our best to get them for you.
• Holiday: unlimited holiday (including all UK public holidays) – we trust our staff to take the time they need and still excel in their jobs – and days off for birthdays and moving house are guaranteed!
• Flexible working: complete choice over where you work each day.
• Regular salary reviews: in line with a salary framework, to ensure equal pay for equal work and that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase.
• Socials: team socials regularly, chosen by the team.
• Team retreats: time to get to know each other away from the office.
• Bonus: transparent bonus structure where you can receive a % of base salary based on personal and company performance.
• Supporting good causes: we contribute some of our outperformance to charitable causes which the team help choose.
• Wellness: time within working hours every week for those that want or need it.
• Monthly benefits budget: £50 per month, every month, to spend on whatever you want – from a home delivered vegetable box and discounted gym memberships, to mental health support and professional coaching.

A CARBON NEUTRAL BUSINESS

Boldspace is a certified B Corp Business and measures its performance on profit, people and planet combined. From day one, we will offset your carbon footprint entirely. The cost of this is covered 100% by the company.