Junior Designer | Cult Beauty London, England
Job description
THG is a fast-moving, global technology business that specialises in taking brands direct to consumers. Our world-class proprietary tech and infrastructure powers our extensive portfolio of beauty, nutrition and lifestyle brands and is now helping drive exponential growth of our clients' brands globally.
We're powered by a global team of over 10,000 ambitious people around the world. Our culture is fast-paced and entrepreneurial, it's this DNA that has supported our incredible growth.
We're always looking for individuals that can bring fresh and innovative thinking to THG, and play a part in driving the group forward on its exciting journey. So, if you're ready to take the next big step in your career, challenge yourself every day and evolve with the world around you, THG is ready for you.
Job Title: Junior Designer
Reporting to: Senior Designer
Location: London, Waterloo
Who is Cult Beauty?
Well, we're a beauty-obsessed team who share a common goal — to become the most trusted beauty retailer in the world! We're all about intelligent beauty, from the way we pick our
ever-lusted-after brands to how we talk to our exceptionally savvy customers. Our Cult Community values transparency and so do we. That's why we only sell the products that truly blow us away and publish every review on our site. To achieve this goal, we want to collaborate with individuals who have the same vision. As part of the Cult Beauty team, you'll be encouraged to share ideas and empowered to aim for the skies. We're a team so if we fail, we fail together and try again. We're not just here to sell the most unbelievably amazing beauty products in the world, we also want to challenge the definition of what 'beauty' is and use our platform to challenge the status quo — both in our industry and society.
Purpose of Role:
We have an exciting opportunity for a talented and passionate junior designer with specialism in brand and digital to join our growing Cult Beauty creative team. The junior designer will be the champion of our brand aesthetic, creating innovative visual content across multiple channels that will engage and inspire our customer. You must be digital first, with an excellent understanding of digital design and a passion for customer experience. You will work closely with the marketing communications team to execute daily onsite content – homepage, emails, landing pages and blogs as well as create content in line with our trading calendar
to support sales growth. You will act as a brand guardian by maintaining brand tone, standards and style on all designs. This is a great opportunity to grow and develop with a top beauty retailer
Who you are:
This role requires a highly organised person, who is a versatile designer with excellent communication skills, to be responsible for our look and feel on site. Our ideal candidate is someone who can bring enthusiasm, creativity and innovation to the role. The successful candidate will need to thrive working to tight deadlines and in a fast-paced retail environment.
Responsibilities:
- Digital design – visual design across site, creating homepage banners, weekly emails, and landing pages for all campaigns and manage onsite content through our CMS.
- You will deliver creative visual assets, digital static and some motion design that brings our brand to life.
- Design compelling social layouts to support social messaging.
- Print – create marketing materials such as booklets and flyers for our PR, influencer and affiliates teams.
- Generate creative concepts and execute to different deliverables for seasonal promotions/products. Presenting finalised ideas to Senior Designers and Creative Lead
- Branding – you will work with the Creative Lead on evolving the brand identity through the creation of digital assets and will be responsible for the up-keep of brand guidelines, sales packs, external/internal presentations and creative internal assets for the company
Must haves:
- Proven experience in designing concepts for digital, web and email design
- Experience as a junior designer, ready to hit the ground running
- A creative thinker, with a love of producing new ideas and concepts.
- An excellent communicator, you will be able to present your ideas clearly
- Expert experience with Adobe creative cloud
- Strong knowledge of typography, colour and layout
- Some knowledge of UI and UX design is a plus
- Experience of aftereffects and video editing software a plus
- You must be able to balance multiple projects and meet deadlines with attention to detail
- Must have strong organisational and scheduling skills
What we offer in return:
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Pension Contributions
- Enhanced Maternity pay
- Enhanced Paternity pay
- Potential hybrid working
- Flexitime working with core hours.
- Annual wellbeing day
- A day off for your birthday
- Annual charity day allowance
- Excellent discount from the Cult Beauty website!
- Up to 50% discounts on wellbeing products from our parent company, THG
Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven't heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.
THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
