Visual Designer - 12 Month FTC

JOB TITLE:   Visual Designer

SALARY:  £72,702 - £80,780

LOCATION:  London

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.  

What you’ll be doing 

We’re looking for someone to help bring our digital experiences to life.

You’ll do this by creating visually and engaging with customers and stakeholders through storytelling.

Someone who can work collaboratively alongside a full design multidisciplinary team, with a willingness to learn from - and actively support other Visual Designers.

We’re looking for an experienced a Visual Designer to work within our Experience Design team of designers, researchers and strategists.

You’ll help identify and solve real customer problems and ensure that we put humans needs at the heart of every problem we solve.

As a Visual Designer, it’ll be your role to:

• Apply your creative thinking to solve complex problems and make them seem simple

• Design production assets, infographics, logos and other elements

• Create engaging digital experiences, design interfaces for web and mobile applications

• Make seemingly mundane things interesting and exciting

• Support us scale and hone our digital design system

• Mastering storytelling techniques to help the business communicate effectively

• Bring your designs to life with prototyping software

• Working effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope.

• Engage with design teams and communities of practices to understand objectives and opportunities aligned to good customer outcomes

• Design and layout pages and User Interfaces, skillfully and creatively using components from a central design system to figure out the right balance of content and UI (User Interface) elements on screen.

• Bring your designs and presentations to life with prototyping software (Figma is our main tool, experience is required) as well Adobe Creative suite and Microsoft tools like, Powerpoint, Excel, Acrobat. 

Why join us? 

Join us and, give us your best and we’ll give you ours. Here, you’ll make a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, amazing workspaces, hybrid working and huge career opportunities-you’ll find them all here. 

What we’re looking for? 

• Demonstrable experience within Visual Design

• A collaborative mindset ready to support a busy multi-disciplinary team

• Experience in solving visual design challenges and deliver experience-led brand digital journeys

• Tons of energy and enthusiasm to bring visual design to where it’s needed

• Understand and contribute with existing digital Design System and be an advocate of accessibility standards

• Ambitions to work collaboratively with – and learn from - a full-stack design team, including Researchers, Content Designers, Service Designers and Interaction Designers

• Strong ability to see designs through to delivery – communicating with developers to ensure designs meet specifications and can be used by a broad range of users of all backgrounds, ages and abilities 

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply. 

This is a place for you: 

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.  

 We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.  

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.  

 We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.  

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: 

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15% 

• An annual performance-related bonus 

• Share schemes including free shares 

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top 

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies 

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.