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Senior Designer

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Posted 10/21/2026full-timeLondon • United KingdomSeniorWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in producing high-quality artwork and designs across various media, including print and digital, while effectively managing client briefs and mentoring junior designers. Proficient in creative automation and AI-assisted production, with a strong understanding of brand systems and adaptation for global markets.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Adobe Creative Cloud ExpertiseArtwork Production to Finished StandardCreative Automation and AI-Assisted ProductionClient Brief Management and PresentationMentoring and Supporting Junior Designers

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Serve as the senior hands-on designer in the London studio across brand and campaign work, print and retail, digital, social, e-commerce, long-form documents and presentations
  • Get under the skin of briefs and turn complex problems into simple, beautiful solutions
  • Produce finished artwork to production standard, including specification, pre-press, formats, colour, print methods and retail specifications
  • Work within established brand systems while identifying appropriate creative opportunities
  • Brief and art direct motion, 3D and video specialists when needed
  • Build structured, named, consistent and documented masters and templates for reuse across languages and markets
  • Design for adaptation, including text expansion, alternative formats, market variation and regulatory/legal copy
  • Use and help advance creative automation and AI-assisted production
  • Feed production experience into the development of studio tools and processes
  • Mentor less experienced designers through work-in-progress reviews and constructive critique
  • Set standards for how work is shown and discussed
  • Take client briefs, present work and explain creative decisions
  • Manage creative quality while flagging timing and scope risks to producers, project managers and directors
  • Collaborate regularly with the Newcastle studio to maintain shared standards and tooling
  • Help new London starters connect with the Newcastle team
  • Represent the London studio as standards, processes and tooling develop

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Solid experience as a mid-weight or senior designer in an agency, studio or in-house creative team
  • Portfolio demonstrating print and digital execution
  • Artwork and print production to a finished standard, including specification, pre-press, print methods, retail and POS
  • Experience with digital output including social, e-commerce, display and appropriate formats
  • Experience working inside established brand systems and guidelines for large brands
  • Experience building master files and templates intended to be scaled and adapted by other people
  • Current, hands-on experience with creative automation and AI-assisted production
  • Experience taking briefs directly from clients and presenting work back to them
  • Experience supporting less experienced designers, formally or otherwise, or a real appetite to start
  • Expert across Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
  • Typography and layout skills of a standard others can learn from
  • Fast and accurate at volume
  • Ability to critique work constructively
  • Ability to lead creative conversations and respond well to challenge
  • Strong file organisation
  • Curiosity about design craft and the industry
  • Global or multi-market brand experience, including adaptation and localisation across languages is a bonus
  • Scripting or automation inside Adobe applications, or experience with a creative automation platform is a bonus
  • Experience working across multiple sites or with colleagues in other countries is a bonus
  • Motion, 3D or video literacy is a bonus
  • Retouching and image preparation is a bonus
  • Art direction and/or photography is a bonus
  • Experience of a studio going through growth or structural change is a bonus
  • Design education to degree level, or a portfolio that makes the question irrelevant, is a bonus

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Pension: 3% matched contribution
  • 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, with time off between Christmas and New Year guaranteed
  • 5 days sick pay at full pay each year
  • Flexible working: hybrid options that work for you and the team
  • Free gym classes in Newcastle and rooftop sauna access in London
  • Monthly lunch-and-learns
  • Funding and time off for relevant courses

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Hard Skills
Artwork ProductionPrint MethodsDigital OutputTypography SkillsLayout SkillsFile OrganisationScripting in Adobe ApplicationsCreative AutomationBrand System AdherenceTemplate Building
Soft Skills
Constructive CritiqueCreative Conversation LeadershipCuriosity About Design Craft
Certifications & Qualifications
Design Education to Degree Level
Industry Keywords
Brand AdaptationMulti-Market ExperienceRetail SpecificationsPOS DesignMotion Literacy3D LiteracyVideo Literacy