Brand Designer
Posted Today by eTeam
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Contract Designer + Art Director involves joining the 'House of Creative' team for a 6-month period in the UK, focusing on creating memorable brand experiences. The position requires collaboration with multi-disciplined teams to design and conceptualize various brand materials while upholding the brand's identity. The ideal candidate will have strong design skills and a passion for crafting engaging in-person experiences for advertisers across EMEA markets.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and conceptualize compelling brand experiences from promotional materials to the overall experience.
- Apply best-in-class art direction across various mediums including digital, print, environmental, experiential, and branded content.
- Support photo curation and event styling, ensuring visual details are thoughtfully chosen and executed.
- Collaborate closely with creatives, strategists, producers, and marketing throughout the creative process.
- Translate creative briefs and abstract ideas into compelling stories, moodboards, photo selects, sketches, and final assets.
- Represent the team's work to key stakeholders and provide feedback to collaborators across disciplines.
- Inspire collaboration with writers, designers, animators, producers, and marketing managers to create culturally resonant work.
- Uphold visual standards to ensure all creative outputs reflect the brand's identity and values.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years of experience as a designer/art director.
- Impeccable taste and style with a strong portfolio showcasing design, art direction, and event styling.
- Hands-on maker with effective communication skills for concepts and direction.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a track record of collaboration with creative teams.
- Strong grasp of design and art direction across various formats.
- Strong presentation skills to convey complex concepts simply.
- Attention to detail in design and photo art direction.
- Experiential art direction and design experience, including on-site art directing.
- Full proficiency in Figma and Adobe.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We are looking for a talented and dynamic Contract Designer + Art Director based in the United Kingdom (UK) to join Clients brand creative team ‘House of Creative’ for a 6-month period. This contract role requires a passionate creative with strong design skills and experience creating unforgettable in-person brand experiences. You’ll collaborate with talented, multi-disciplined, creative project teams, and be a hands-on maker who will actively shape how Client comes to life across owned and industry brand experiences + events for Advertisers in multiple EMEA markets.
What You’ll Do
- Design and help conceptualize compelling, memorable brand experiences — from promo materials to the experience itself.
- Apply best-in-class art direction across mediums: digital, print, environmental, experiential, and branded content.
- Support photo curation and event styling, ensuring every visual detail is thoughtfully chosen and beautifully executed.
- Partner closely with creatives, strategists, producers, and marketing across the creative process.
- Translate creative briefs and abstract ideas into compelling stories, moodboards, photo selects, sketches, and final assets.
- Compellingly represent the thinking behind the team’s work to key stakeholders, creative directors and team members.
- Provide and receive feedback to internal and external collaborators across disciplines.
- Be a source of inspiration through your collaboration with writers, designers, animators, producers and marketing across the creative process.
- Translate creative briefs and abstract ideas into compelling stories, moodboards, photo selects, sketches, and final assets.
- Compellingly represent the thinking behind the team’s work to key stakeholders, creative directors and team members.
- Provide and receive feedback to internal and external collaborators across disciplines.
- Be a source of inspiration through your collaboration with writers, designers, animators, producers and marketing managers in creating work that has deep cultural resonance.
- Uphold visual standards, ensuring all creative outputs embody Clients unique brand identity and values.
Skills and Experience Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a designer / art director.
- Impeccable sense of taste and style, with a portfolio that highlights strong design, art direction and event styling.
- A book of work with examples of outstanding creative across a variety of brands and mediums.
- A hands-on maker, with the skills to effectively communicate concepts, direction and decisions with the team and with external partners.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with a track record of collaborating with creative teams to achieve their best work.
- Strong grasp of design and art direction craft across a wide variety of formats.
- Strong presentation skills, with an ability to convey complex concepts in compellingly simple terms.
- A paragon of craft, composition, typography, color and imagery.
- Your attention to design and photo art direction details is legendary.
- Experiential art direction and design experience.
- Experience art directing on-site and working with production partners / external creative agencies.
- An accomplished creative who can bring out the best work in others and produce exceptionally high quality work individually.
- Full proficiency in Figma and Adobe.