Senior Designer - London, United Kingdom - Depop

Depop

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Company Description

Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell unique fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries.

Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.

The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York.

Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world's most diverse progressive home of fashion, that's kinder on the planet and kinder to people.

In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.

Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world's most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We're continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us.

Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Designer with both Graphic and Motion design experience, who is deeply embedded in creative design within youth and fashion culture.

Reporting to the Head of Creative (Art Direction and Design), the Senior Designer is a key role in driving Depop's brand identity and visual design through our brand channels and more widely through the business.

You'll work closely with the creative team to make outstanding design work that positions Depop as the most diverse, progressive home of fashion.

Responsibilities

Drive design direction, innovative creative ideation and execution for Depop brand, marketing, social and partnership campaigns, activations and content.
Build and refine the Depop graphic systems and guidelines, and continually manage and evolve the Depop brand identity: ensuring this is central and consistent across all creative projects and platforms.
Working on a variable scale of projects with hands on design ability to produce attractive and effective designs across multiple platforms, from print and digital to social and animated design for social and campaigns
Define and develop motion graphic creative and across Depop's digital marketing channels
Bring strong relationships with external creative agencies and partners, internal/external teams while managing multiple workstreams with competing priorities
Ability to structure/deliver outstanding creative presentations (internally or externally)
Work closely with creative counterparts and key stakeholders to concept and execute original ideas and stories while demonstrating your understanding of the Depop brand.

Qualifications:

Requirements:

Extensive experience minimum in a fashion and youth culture brand or agency environment
An outstanding digital portfolio demonstrating your graphic and motion design abilities
Excellent typography skills, creative mind and a sharp eye; layout and art direction
A strong understanding of creating motion graphics, and animated typography that excites and inspires our creative community.
Demonstrable experience in delivering a broad range of design projects including brand campaigns, activations, moving image, design systems, events, digital, motion graphics, print, and social campaigns across different devices, screens and platforms (Snap, Meta, Pinterest etc.)
An ability to storytell and create engaging content for a Gen Z audience
Strong understanding of assessing the content landscape for a brand
Strong communication skills and a highly developed design vocabulary
Good organisational skills that support the rest of the team

About you:

Calm under pressure, resourceful and a creative problem solver, used to working to deadlines on their own initiative
Entrepreneurial spirit, growth mindset, and collaborative nature is a must
Excellent communication skills
Passion for fashion and youth culture
A team player that is happy to work on small and large projects, internal or external

Software
This role requires you to have expert working knowledge in the following;

InDesign
Illustrator
Photoshop
After Effects
Figma
Sketch
Premiere Pro

Additional Information

UK Benefits

Health + Mental Wellbeing

Cashplan or PMI you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
Subsidised counselling and coaching we partner with Selfspace to provide you with the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person
Cycle to Work scheme choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your c