Mid Weight Graphic Designer London, England
River Island
Full Time
London, England
35620 - 41579 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Description
Ready to join one of the most successful fashion brands on the high street? Do you have a passion for fashion? Driven to achieve? United to win? If your answers are yes, we think you’ll love it here on the Island…
From our first shop in the remains of a North London bombsite in the 1940s, to now over 250 stores across the UK, Ireland and internationally. We are known for our stylish, affordable fashion and we like to shout-it loud.
Our Island community is everything and we are stronger together. Every Islander counts in making fashion a force for good and we value individuality and difference. Exceptional people have made River Island a success for over 70 years. Together we will continue to do so in the years ahead.
We are one team. We are the difference. We are River Island.
Join our team of creative tastemakers and help shape the vision of River Island.
Accountabilities:
- Craft stand-out design for River Island
- Ensure design is executed to the highest level across all touchpoints
- Deliver work to deadline
Responsibilities:
- You’ll apply your creativity and keen graphic eye to bring seasonal and brand concepts to life with a customer-first mindset.
- You will support the Senior Designer in building design guidelines for campaigns; putting these to the test across multiple channels including (but not limited to): product branding and packaging, instore and digital media channels.
- You will support the junior designers in the team, leading by example and coaching them in their roles to ensure they produce impeccable work that reflects our brand values and ties back to design guidelines which you haved helped create.
- Attend brainstorm sessions for cultural calendar moments and trade reactive promotions; responding to marketing briefs to create best in class, enagaging concepts.
- Confidently present concepts to the team and internal stakeholders.
- Handover and brief work to the artwork team for them to deliver print ready files and digital assets for deployment.
- Collaborate with our internal UX/UI team and content developers to push the boundaries of design and functionality for the River Island website and app.
- Design and develop seasonal product branding
- Assist the Senior Designer in maintaining seasonal brand and design style guides for the product design and marketing teams; ensuring design across all channels, both online and offline, is consistent.
- You are fascinated by what makes brands tick and talented enough to turn that understanding into memorable multi-channel designs.
- You have an insatiable love for fashion and graphic design; staying abreast of trends within the industry and shifts within the cultural landscape; incorporating emerging technologies and new media formats into projects.
Skills and Abilities:
- A strong holistic view to creative problem solving whilst maintaining a keen eye for detail
- Proven experience in concepting modern and engaging multi channel design
- Work well within a team as leader and collaborator
- Work under extreme pressure to meet creative deadlines
- Communicate clearly, accurately and confidently
- Proactive and able to take initiative
- Technical knowledge of both web development and print processes
- Experience in CMS based design and templating
- High technical proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch and Invision
- Understanding of CSS and HTML. Other coding languages a plus
- Understanding of Scene Seven or similar back-end image server
- Minimum 3-5 years design experience
Base Location
The base location for this role is at our Head Office in West London. Hanger Lane is the nearest tube station on the central line, alternatively we have a free on-site car park should driving be an option.
And wait, did we mention the perks?
- Discount - Generous 50% staff discount so you can treat yourself & a bargain staff shop, all onsite!
- RI Rewards - Reducing Islanders everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more with Reward Gateway!
- Island culture - We have a free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café & various social events throughout the year. We also work closely with the Retail Trust to create dedicated support for all our Islanders!
- Work that stays at work - Flexible working is a given, on top of payday early finishes and Summer Fridays
- Family Hub - Every family is unique, we support Islanders with all different family setups enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment
- Giver Island - Give as you earn scheme, a ‘Giver Island’ day each year and matched funding
- Training on the job - Support with upskilling skills through on the job training and qualifications
- Pension - A contributory private pension scheme
- Holiday - 25 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays!
We mentioned the discount, right?
Safeguarding
At River Island we are committed to the safeguarding of all of our employees regardless of age or job role. We will fulfil our obligation under the Prevent duty which seeks to stop extremism and extremist views from materialising in our business. We promote and encourage the belief in British Values- including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. To find out more, please visit www.gov.uk
About River Island, HQ
River Island
https://careers.riverisland.com/
London, United Kingdom
Will Kernan
Unknown / Non-Applicable
10000+ Employees
Subsidiary or Business Segment
Department, Clothing & Shoe Stores
1948
