Senior Graphic Designer London, England
Job description
Founded by mathematicians and cyber defense experts in 2013, Darktrace is a global leader in cyber security AI, delivering complete AI-powered solutions in its mission to free the world of cyber disruption. We protect more than 7,700 customers from the world's most complex threats, including ransomware, cloud, and SaaS attacks.
Our roots lie deep in innovation. The Darktrace AI Research Centre based in Cambridge, UK, has conducted research establishing new thresholds in cyber security, with technology innovations backed by over 115 patents and pending applications. The company's European R&D center is located in The Hague, Netherlands.
Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, Darktrace has more than 2,000 employees located across more than 100 countries. Customers include public sector agencies, education institutions, media, organizations supplying critical infrastructure, and businesses of all sizes worldwide.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast-growing company, named one of TIME magazine's "Most Influential Companies" for 2021 and one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative AI Companies" in 2022. For more information on our cutting-edge technology, visit darktrace.com.
As Darktrace continues to grow, we're looking to add a talented Mid Weight - Senior Graphic Designer to our small, but close-knit in-house design team. Based in London for a minimum of 2 days per week and reporting to the VP Marketing Strategy & Operations, you'll drive creative output for a variety of projects, lead on strategic campaigns, and be responsible for inspiring members of the team. You'll be a brilliant designer, confident storyteller, versatile, and willing to apply design-thinking across all stages of the creative process; from immersion, strategy, and implementation.
Responsibilities:
- Generating interesting, beautifully executed creative work, leading the output on projects through every stage of development, and providing creative input at brainstorms and weekly design catch-ups.
- Leading on creative ideation, execution, and roll-out of strategic campaign projects during our recruiting seasons
- Helping develop guidelines, icons, imagery and videos to ensure all touch points are cohesive and on brand
- Creating, designing and laying out engaging one-pagers, information sheets and other literature
- Designing striking, on-brand powerpoint presentations
- Creating occasional graphics for the website, taking into account UX/UI principles
- Helping create motion graphics and videos if you have the skills, or are willing to learn
- Project managing work and collaborating with other internal teams to ensure briefs are fully explored, manage expectations of stakeholders, and deliver what is needed from concept to completion.
- Effectively distilling and communicating direction to the team after stakeholder feedback
- Pursuing and maintaining exceptional levels of craft with the highest design standard and attention to detail
- Mentoring Junior Designers with encouragement and constructive feedback, inspiring them with your energy, enthusiasm, and love of design
- Act as a Darktrace Brand Guardian, ensuring all work is to the highest standard
Candidate requirements:
- 2 - 3+ years of relevant industry experience gained in a commercial environment (Essential)
- 2:1 or higher obtained at bachelor level in a design-related field, preferably graphic design (Essential)
- A stunning portfolio or showreel that demonstrates concept-driven design and superbly crafted projects. We want to see versatility, experimentation, system-thinking and evidence of having worked on a range of print and digital projects from start to finish (Essential)
- You'll need to be a creative, inquisitive sort, bursting with ideas and have an instinctive flair for layout and typography (Essential)
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to turn complex ideas into clearly understandable visuals (Essential)
- Strong people skills. You should be comfortable working as a team, confident in conducting interviews, and interacting with senior stakeholders. You'll also need to be open minded and flexible with regards to design development (Essential)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills. You'll have a natural aptitude for connecting with people, be mature, perceptive, and able to 'read' a room
- A great planner who thinks ahead and is able to juggle and prioritise multiple projects (Essential)
- You'll have some experience creating and managing visual, verbal and strategic campaign projects (Desirable)
- A resilient, positive outlook. Someone who's not easily fazed by tight deadlines and able to pivot at short notice when needed (Desirable)
- An ambitious, quick learner with a can-do-attitude who wants to grow as a team member and design professional (Desirable)
Technical Skills:
- High level of skill using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat (Essential)
- Good working knowledge of Powerpoint, Word and Adobe (Essential)
- Understanding of peripheral design processes (e.g. print production, liaising and briefing suppliers, working with specialists, etc) (Essential)
- Motion is an advantage: After Effects and Premiere Pro (Desirable)
Benefits we offer:
- 23 days holiday + a day off for your birthday, rising to 25 (+ birthday) after 2 years
- All UK public holidays
- BUPA healthcare with premiums fully paid by Darktrace for employee + eligible family members
- Salary Sacrifice pension scheme with company contribution of 4% and employee contribution of 5%
- Life Insurance 4x salary
- Cycle to work scheme
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