Designer - Design Studio - GBM EUI London, England
Job description
Responsibilities
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.
About The Team
1GBM EUI are the Global Business Marketing team (GBM) and champions TikTok in the B2B world, looking to educate, inspire and create opportunities for our sales teams to develop and foster key client relationships and demonstrate how TikTok can deliver business outcomes for their business.
About the role
We are currently building a team of integrated and multi-faceted designers to support the GBM EUI team. Core competencies include branding, art direction, visual design, typography, and motion graphics. We are in search of a multi-disciplinary integrated designer, able to deliver a wide range of assets. This could range from beautifully designed presentations and pitches, to creating and localising internal and external assets, collateral and concepts. You will have the skills and the ambition to make things look beautiful quickly, efficiently, and effectively. You can apply your creative thinking through your proficiency in a broad range of programmes.
The candidate we are looking for is a high-performing autonomous designer, who thrives within a fast-paced, often changing environment, and has previous mid- to senior- level design experience and proven experience working within a design studio environment. The majority of your time will be spent rolling your sleeves up and directly contributing to design projects, delivering assets, and leading projects to ensure brand consistency and continuity. You should have an innate passion for digital and social media and entertainment platforms. This is a unique opportunity to join and lead a growing team, defining how the world's fastest growing digital channel brand is amplified for our clients in-market.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrated graphic design work in a marketing, advertising, social platform or tech company
- Being a brand guardian and protecting the look / feel / design guidelines for TikTok for Business
- Creating bespoke presentation templates (Google Slides / Powerpoint) and formatting presentations and assets into these consistent guidelines
- Bringing concepts and ideas to life through mock ups and storyboards
- Building the brand library / resources
- Creating a wide variety of assets, including but not limited to social cards and visuals, newsletter templates, emails, one-pagers, flyers, posters, banners, infographics
- Execution at events, including but not limited to working with event production companies to develop branding, programme design, client comms, visuals, merch
- Basic understanding of animation / motion design, creating gifs, minor video editing
- Awareness of image and audio licensing and usages
- Connecting regularly with internal stakeholders in Europe and globally to ensure ongoing clarity of what's happening in the broader business, sharing work, discuss upcoming projects and agree priorities
- Report into the Design Studio Lead and work with creatives, creators, and business partners, to bring stories and concepts to life.
- Experienced designer, with proven track record of working in a busy and fast-paced creative design studio
- Can lead projects from concept to delivery
- Ability to work with and direct junior team members, ensuring they are clear on the expectations of their role, tasks, priorities, timelines
- Comfortable guiding freelancers, agencies, and production partners if required
- Experience with industry standard design tools - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier Pro, After Effects, Figma etc.
- Knowledge of print and post production
- Excellent visual and written communication skills
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Experience working in multi-disciplined, cross-functional teams
- Proven track record of managing multiple priorities in a fast paced and deadline driven environment
- A portfolio submission is mandatory that demonstrates core competencies across visual design, typography, art direction, digital, social, print, etc.
- English speaking - additional languages are bonus (French, German, Italian)
