Senior Creative, Brand Designer - London, United Kingdom - The Yard Creative

The Yard Creative
The Yard Creative
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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We have a very exciting opportunity for a strong conceptual Senior Creative, Brand Designer to join our team on a full-time basis.

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of successful graphic design, brand identity and brand strategy, as well as digital and interaction design within the Retail, Food and Beverage, Health and Wellbeing, Property Development, Hospitality and Transport sectors.


This is a client-facing role that requires the person to be able to engage and manage clients in a proactive manner.

There will be regular client meetings and site visits, we are a hybrid studio with the expectation that you will be in the studio for 3 days a week, inspiring and supporting the team, being collaborative and driving the creative.

The person will be required to document meetings, produce presentations, and create all project deliverables to an exceptionally high standard.


Working as part of the graphics and branding team, the person will be expected to work with guidance from our Creative Director along with other members of the Senior Management team.

We expect this person to be completely self-sufficient in terms of working across multiple projects, managing their & the teams time efficiently and excelling in project deliverables.


Roles and responsibilities

  • Receiving and interpreting client briefs
  • Running client and team meetings / workshops
  • Creation of strategic direction for a brand / experience (physical and/or digital)
  • Brand concept generation, creation, and execution
  • Developing ideas for brand engagement, user experience and interaction design
  • 2D visual design concepts and finalising through design development
  • Artworking, proofing and print management


  • Supplier management

  • Client liaison, review, and signoff
  • Leadership, inspiration, and art direction of junior members of the graphics team
  • Keeping up to date with trends and a love for all that's new and innovative
  • Developing existing client relationships and supporting the farming of new work
  • Supporting new business activities and winning new clients

Specific skills required for the role

  • 7+ years experience
  • Excellent idea and concept generation abilities
  • Extensive experience in designing for retail; specifically interior signage, POS, interior graphics, way finding and exterior fascia
  • Extensive experience in designing corporate literature; specifically design, artwork, print production and liaison
  • Extensive experience in creating brand identity, marketing and communications materials
  • Outstanding skills in creating bespoke illustrations; specifically traditional style illustrations and typography
  • Extensive experience in designing uniforms, packaging and production of packaging
  • Very confident and articulate art direction, photography direction and liaison
  • Very confident in managing suppliers (e.g., copywriting, printers, photographers)
  • Outstanding client liaison and management skills
  • Good team leadership skills
  • Excellent ability to produce all project deliverables to an exceptionally high standard
  • Expert Apple Mac user
  • Expert user of MS Office
  • Expert user of Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Expert in Figma
  • Outstanding copywriting skills
  • Excellent story boarding and creation of presentations

Who will you be?
You'll be your own person. Be confident in who you are, stand up for what you believe and never hide what you know.

You'll share everything you know to help others around you grow and flourish whilst be inquisitive to ask them questions back.

People will describe your knowledge and energy as infectious.

You'll of course have a passion for what you do (otherwise why are you doing it?), bring energy to the team and help grow our culture.

And you'll know your stuff. You'll not bluff your way through, never lie and always have TYC front of mind.


What we'll do for you

In exchange for bringing it everyday, we'll ensure you'll manage a wide variety of creative challenges, work with Global Brands and entrepreneurs, have exposure to many different aspects of the business and continue to learn at every step of the way.

We'll support you and believe in you. You'll get a strong work life balance. You'll be involved in all our cultural activities.


And lastly
You'll be part of an agency whose profits go towards affecting climate, demographic and economic change.

At a time where we're all telling our clients to have a bigger purpose, we're leading the way and showing others how its done.


Qualifications required:

  • 2:1 or higher Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Branding or Design
  • International design agency and client experience is required

About TYC TYC is a boutique design agency that 'only work with people who want to challenge a sector' our abilities to see the world differently from others and identify opportunities for our clients is what inspires us. Our clients have already voted TYC as the No3 Branding design agency in th
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