Creative Design Manager London, England
Job description
Preqin is an award-winning, independent, research company providing data and intelligence to the financial industry.
The Creative team at Preqin provide creative support and design engaging solutions for various business problems across Marketing, product and other business wide departments. The team are also the guardians of the Preqin brand.
As an experienced coach and leader, you will guide and inspire a talented team of designers to achieve excellence in all areas of creative design. From branding and interactive campaigns to digital marketing and print publishing, to animation and video production, your team will tackle a diverse range of tasks with energy and skill. As you lead by example, you will help your team to push the boundaries of what is possible and consistently deliver outstanding results.
You’ll lead by example and demonstrate best practise to those you manage and the wider business. You’ll be expected to form tight working relationships within the business and engage with marketing stakeholders to improve and iterate on processes and outputs.
You will be actively working with senior marketing managers and other design leads on strategy, vision, culture and implementation.
We'd breakdown the two main day to day areas as the following:
Team & work management
- Manage a team of designers focussing on coaching and development of your team.
- Build a design culture in the team that thinks forward and challenges the status quo.
- Work with the wider design team on improving processes by running workshops and design rituals
- Oversee the briefing process and traffic management of deliverables
- Translate ideas and briefs into well-designed deliverables
- Partner with marketing teams, designers and Product Managers throughout the design process including presentations, stand-ups, review meetings, project briefings, etc
- Work closely with Product design leads in creating alignment across the product and marketing
- Participate in design reviews and share work regularly with the other Design Leads and promote your teams work within the wider business
Design Strategy
Work with head of design, and design leads to define design strategy and brand vision. Deliver on this the strategy and sell it into the business.- Work with Product to help deliver design initiatives that cover Customer Experience / Service design
- Be an advocate for design thinking across the business and promote new design innovations and strategy to stake holders.
- Advocate a user focussed design approach using data to improve designs and use insights to develop & present new concepts & ideas
- Bring new ideas and innovations to the business.
- Be a brand guardian and develop, manage & police the brand guidelines.
- Have a strong voice and gravitas to help design be seen as a leading department within the business.
- Understand the business goals, customer needs and competitor products to ensure we are best-in-class, and know when and how to make tough design decisions
- Degree in a design or design related subject
- You possess the ability to a diverse group of coach designers
- You obtain a strong online portfolio demonstrating attention to both form and function
- Ability to build key relationships across the business.
- Art direction
- Proficient in current design tools
- You're data-driven in your approach to make design decisions
- Experience of presenting ideas and working with cross functional teams
- You'll be strategic thinking with a customer at front of mind approach.
- You thrive from delivering quality work and open-minded to collaboration across the team and business.
Desirables
- Familiarity with agile software development and lean teams
- Experience working inhouse at a fintech or large data-driven company is desirable but not essential
- Bonus points for being able to conduct user research and customer journey mapping
Other:
- The opportunity to work within a well-regarded organisation in a fast-growing sector.
- Develop your career in a high growth company with an international presence.
- Subsidised Private Medical Insurance via BUPA, after successful completion of 3 months should you wish to.
- Interest-free season ticket loans on completion of probation
- A pension plan under auto-enrolment which currently requires a minimum employee contribution of 5% of annual salary. This is matched by an employer contribution of 4%. You can opt to contribute more should you wish to. After your 1-year service with the company the employer contribution will be enhanced to match your contribution up to a maximum of 10% of your pensionable earnings. This means that if you are contributing the minimum contribution of 5%, after your 1-year service, Preqin will automatically uplift the company contribution to 5% of annual salary.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Study support of up to £900 per annum for relevant business qualifications and enhanced support of up to $2,500 for CAIA.
- Excellent Offices in London close to Victoria station and the proximity to many shops and restaurants and London’s West End.
- Company-sponsored sports teams.
- Winter and summer office parties and a company-funded team social budget.
Our culture and values
At Preqin, we’re aligned around common values – our shared beliefs that shape Preqin’s corporate culture:
Be customer-obsessed
We exist for our customers. We listen to them and understand their challenges. We design best-in-class data solutions for their success.
Act with integrity
We build trust through honesty and transparency. We’re committed to doing the right thing for our customers, our company, and each other.
Own your success
We’re a high-performance team. We challenge and champion each other in our pursuit of excellence. We never stop learning and strive to become experts in our fields.
Think forward
We lead the industry through innovation. We foster collaboration and creativity to solve our clients’ next challenge and give them a competitive advantage.
Make an impact
We drive positive change as individuals, and as a company. We’re passionate about creating a better tomorrow for our industry and our communities.
Equal opportunities
Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Preqin is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, so everyone has the opportunity to be successful. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please let the Preqin recruiter know at the start of the application process. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process.
