Junior Digital Designer Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
We are looking for a creative, innovative and enthusiastic Junior Digital Designer to join our expanding digital team.
As the main bus operator across Edinburgh and the Lothians, Lothian is dedicated to delivering an outstanding customer experience offering a city-wide network 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Operating for over 100 years, Lothian is now one of the region’s largest employers with over 2,500 colleagues.
Be part of the team that inspires the use of public transport across our capital city and helps influence the next generation of customers through the use of technology and developing communication platforms.
Responsibilities
- Deliver day to day design tasks requested by the communications team and other areas of the business
- Working across all communications platforms developing and executing quality visually engaging creative campaigns and marketing collateral
- Present concepts and design pieces to key stakeholders across the business
- Be challenged every day with being creative, managing multiple tasks/projects/deadlines all at pace
- Help in the development of our design system and evolve our brand across digital channels (web, social media, TV) as well as other non-digital formats
- Ensure brand consistency throughout
Key personal criteria
- Ability to bring our brand to life in a usable and engaging way across digital touch points that is of a consistently high quality
- Have an eye on the craft and detail but doesn’t lose sight of the bigger picture
- Be able to work confidently in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to adapt to an ever-changing workflow and to prioritise when ad-hoc tasks are introduced
- Share and discuss emerging creative tools and processes with the team
- A varied portfolio of great high-quality examples showing us your creativity
- Proven experience of successfully delivering digital campaigns and print collateral
- Ideally educated to degree level in a Design or related discipline but not a prerequisite
Essential skills and tools
- Proven understanding of layout, typography, composition, and colour
- Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite is a must
- Passion for Design
- Setting up print ready artwork
- Boring stuff: PowerPoint/Keynote/One Drive O365/Monday.com
Desirable
- Animation/motion design knowledge
Included in the role are perks for working with Lothian:
- Staff travelcard – travel free all year on our buses and Edinburgh Trams
- Heavily discounted travelcard for one additional family member or friend
- Health Cash Plan and Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to a range of benefits including discounts for hundreds of retailers
- Subsidised canteen and facilities
- Good work/life balance
If this sounds like the kind of place you belong, reach out to us now. Send a covering letter and CV to apply.
Closing date Friday 14 April 2023
