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Group Brand Designer (Entry Level)

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The Group Communications and Brand function is newly created and allows us to connect our Brand across the entire Bank. Our role is to strengthen the role of Brand and Brand partnerships within the organisation and develop a one brand narrative across all audience groups.

The role-holder will work in the Brand Design and Management team, helping to create, implement and maintain the Create Design System. ‘Create’ incorporates the Global Brand Design Standards, Guidelines, Toolkits and Assets that enable the rest of the design functions across the bank to create on-brand, distinctive and memorable experiences that drive customer preference. The role holder will work together with the Senior Brand Designers and creative contractors within the team to deliver new design standards and assets as well as providing feedback and creative direction to digital, business, product and marketing teams across the globe.

The ideal candidate would be someone with a creative eye with a passion for customer-centric design, design thinking and branding, that are in the early stages of their career. The role offers opportunities to work with and learn from industry experts and design professionals from all sorts of backgrounds from large format print design down to customer journey mapping and app design.

As a HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role, you will:

• Support the creative delivery of the HSBC Group Brand strategy and integration of our brand into the core strategic themes
• Contribute to the evolution of HSBC’s brand and design system, toolkits and design practices across the bank’s design teams and external partners
• Assist in the maintenance and running of weekly creative working sessions and forums
• Assist in the creation of Brand and Design Standards including illustration, photography, tone of voice, web and app, amongst other brand foundations.
• Playing a supporting role in managing the Global Living Wall programme where all global hero creative is shared, discussed, and improved.
• Production and reproduction of creative assets and assist in evolving HSBC’s brand assets and design standards

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

Essential:

• Academic and/or professional background in a design related field
• Evidence in the form of a portfolio or website showing your design related work
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of delivering work using Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) for both print and digital mediums.
• UX and/or UI experience in working with UX design tools (Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft programmes (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Teams)
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to prioritise
• A friendly and confident manner that enables open and active dialogue between Brand Design and stakeholders
• Ability to learn and understand AI and Machine Learning automation tools

Desirable:

• Experience of working in a large complex organisation
• Experience of working within financial services
• Experience in working with whiteboarding tools such as Figjam, Mural and Invision

The base location for this role is London/Hybrid.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.

HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +44 2078328500

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.