Senior Designer
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary :
About Kindred
Over the last 20 years, Kindred Group has brought together 9 of Europe's most successful online gambling brands – forming one of the largest online gambling companies in the world. We offer 27 million customers a great form of digital entertainment, fine-tuned to present an unforgettable experience in a safe and fair environment every day.
About the role
The Kindred Creative Services Team is a full service, in-house, creative agency and we are looking for a talented designer to join our ranks. You need to be a self-motivated, ambitious, creative problem solver with a stunning portfolio of marketing communication-based design. As a Senior Designer, will be working across all our brands and marketing channels, so an understanding of best practice design for onsite, social media and direct mail is a must, and experience working on motion graphic projects would be a plus.
You should be passionate about great design, with expert level photoshop skills and great attention to detail.
Skills and experience required:
* A strong portfolio of work demonstrating inspired design conceptual thinking for marketing communication campaigns and an understanding of communication hierarchy
* Meticulous attention to detail to all assigned jobs
* Excellent communication skills, both written and vocal
* Someone comfortable working on pitch creative
* Confident at visually articulating creative ideas
* High level of photo manipulation and retouching skills
* A strong sense of typography, creative thinking and attentional to detail/crafting
* Able to receive and implement constructive feedback from your peers and key stakeholders
* Eager to learn, evolve and push new and creative ideas that raise expectations
* A pro-active, ‘can-do' attitude with the ability to take the initiative
* Works well under pressure
* Proficiency in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Keynote, Miro and etc.
* Confident to independently lead the projects, mentor other designers, be a team role model and oversee external agency output
What will you be doing?
* Working with the inhouse team to produce effective ideas for promotions and campaigns
* Working collaboratively with creative team of art directors, other designers, the design lead or project and resource managers to ensure consistent quality
* Taking feedback and implementing appropriate amends
* Quality checking and approving campaign assets created against your master creative with an external agency
* Supplying approved assets to the appropriate locations with correct tagging/naming conventions
* Producing inspired creative design solutions to marketing briefs across all our brands and markets
* Taking briefs and working either as the lead creative on a project or with an Art Director to bring alive their vision for specific campaigns
* When working as the lead creative, you will be responsible for producing creative design ideas and presenting them in a professional manner to key stakeholders
* When working with an Art Director, you will be expected to work collaboratively with them to produce inspired visual interpretations of their creative concepts
* When working independently you will be expected to sell the ideas with your presentation and pitching skillsets
* Producing highly finished visuals for use across all media including TTL, ATL and BTL
* Working efficiently using the correct formats and processes
* Delivering against the agreed timings and SLAs
* Creating presentations and handover documents; working files in agreed formats and guidelines for correct asset usage across marketing collateral
* Fostering positive relationships within a team and with those outside
What are your opportunities for growth?
We are an ambitious, growing department. As such, there are always going to be opportunities for ambitious, proactive and talented designers.
We will always seek to recognise ambition and proactivity by giving opportunities on larger, more high-profile jobs. We will be providing relevant training based on closing skills gaps, increasing levels of expertise and possibly even expanding our offering within the company.
Application process
Click on the "Apply Now" button and complete the short web form. Please add a covering letter in English to let us know your motivation for applying and your salary expectation. Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch soon.
Kindred is an equal opportunities employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. As such we oppose all forms of discrimination in the workplace. We create equal opportunities for all our applicants and will treat people equally regardless of and not limited to, gender, age, disability, race, sexual orientation. We are committed not only to our legal obligations but also to the positive promotion that equal opportunities bring to our operations as set out in our sustainability framework. Kindred has an ESG rating of AAA by MCSI.
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