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Brandpie is an exciting and dynamic consultancy with a diverse and highly experienced team located across Europe and North America (London, Berlin, New York, Toronto). We are world leaders in purpose-led transformation and work with some of the world's largest B2B organisations to help them better understand and define their purpose. Our work with companies impacts the way they appear, communicate, operate and, ultimately, engage with their employees and the wider world. We do this through a unique blend of services across brand, culture and experience.

The digital team plays a central part in the business and works closely with all other teams and services we offer. We see ourselves as far more than a production team and are involved heavily in the strategic work across the business. Using design thinking and user experience research approaches to help augment our consultancy processes. Our work then carries through into creative thinking and, ultimately, execution, working closely with our brand design teams, consultants and clients to realise how the business should represent itself online. Designing, and often building, experiences for websites, intranets and (sometimes) products.

We pride ourselves in working in a smart, friendly, and co-operative way that respects everyone’s time and is understanding of that fact that work, however important, is just one part of your life. Our culture aspires to be creative and nurturing, with open, transparent communication. We’re a diverse and strategic bunch, with a mix of doers and thinkers, and looking for someone who’s like-minded and pragmatic to help us deliver some great work.

At Brandpie everyone is trusted to take ownership of their own work and given significant responsibilities from day one. All leaders are hands-on with clients and projects, and everyone contributes to delivering projects. You’ll find this ability to work in partnership with senior leaders across the business will help your development and provide you with constant mentoring and learning experiences beyond your day-to-day.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for an talented visual designer / user interface designer to join our growing Digital team. Working closely with the user experience, technical and branding teams, you will help lead user interface design aspects across our client and internal projects. Creating design systems, interface designs and interaction design solutions for smaller digital-focused projects, through to larger multi-national branding projects.

You’ll need to be a clear communicator and team player, who’s comfortable working in a small, cross-disciplinary team. Collaborating with a mix of user experience designers, strategists, copywriters and consultants to deliver user-centric, value-based design solutions. You’ll also need to be comfortable working in a hybrid model; sometimes from home, sometimes from our central-London based office, depending on the needs of the project.

You must have a minimum of 5 years' experience in visual and user interface design. With a background working in creative, design-orientated environments, delivering design solutions across all web and mobile digital forms. Ideally, you’ll have experience working on B2B and B2C projects within an agency or consultancy environment.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate closely with clients and teams within Brandpie to explore, define and design solutions for small to large-scale projects
• Work closely with the brand design team to develop digital characteristics of a brand identity
• Be a thought leader for digital and user interface design across the business
• Take a lead in our small but nimble team. Working directly with the digital partners to drive design quality and help forge ways to evolve our design approaches and processes
• Help support junior members of the team and interns
• Present your work and ideas to other teams and clients
• Take a lead role in design workshops, alongside the UXD team
• Support the senior team on client pitches

Skills you’ll need:

• Proven experience working as a designer delivering world-class digital and user interface experiences
• Experience working in an agency/creative environment, ideally with brand/visual identity background
• Confident using industry standard design applications, but specifically Figma to create complex interface designs
• Experience working with a wider design team to define the website visual language as part of new brand development
• Understanding of digital Design Systems, design processes and front-end implementation
• Comfortable working in a small digital team to lead delivery and support implementation
• Bring ideas and approaches to enhance user experience, interactions, and motion design
• Be a confident presenter of your work, and explaining your solutions to colleagues and clients
• Be a pragmatic, self-starting person who is happy working remotely
• Able to think strategically and conceptually
• Be a natural problem solver – asking the right questions to get to the answer
• Experience in delivering a range of projects; from small, rapid projects through to larger-scale digital projects
• Experience working on projects across a range of mediums, for example: mobile applications, responsive web, product and service design
• Understanding of WCAG accessibility levels and best practices for visual design
• Fluent in English with a strong command of the language, both written and spoken
• Happy to work remotely

Nice to have skills:

• Previous experience in B2B projects
• Experience designing for multi-language solutions – including Arabic and Mandarin
• Have an understanding of basic web development or even some coding experience

• Have motion design experience

• Degree or equivalent work experience in a related field, such as Interaction Design, Web Design, Product Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design etc

YOUR MINDSET

• Clear communicator: You have strong communication skills and are comfortable communicating and challenging ideas with clients and colleagues
• Team player: You love to generate fresh thinking and work with others, whether you are 1-1 or rolling your sleeves up with the broader team, you do your part to contribute to the creation of brilliant ideas and experiences
• Passionate: You are excited and passionate about user experience design and the benefits great design can offer our clients. Keeping up with the latest trends, new approaches and techniques to enhance our capabilities as a business
• Detail-oriented: You are able to manage multiple projects at once while maintaining attention to detail with each project.
• A self-starter: You’re comfortable working in a small team and taking the initiative to help drive projects forward. Even if this sometimes means you need to do something that’s not always expected from your role

PERKS AND BENEFITS

At Brandpie we believe supporting and helping everyone to grow as a team and an individual. We help do this through our comprehensive and competitive benefits package we offer:

• Generous reward package: We provide industry competitive salaries that reflect experience and ability. We anticipate the salary for this role to be between £40k-£50k. We also offer additional benefits including medical and life insurance, gym membership contributions and a company pension scheme.
• A competitive holiday package: You will start with 23 days annual leave, which increases by 1 day per year to a maximum of 28 days. Our business usually closes between Christmas and New Year, providing an additional 3 days leave.
• Wellbeing support: We believe it’s vital people have time to focus on their wellbeing (both physical and mental). From day one you will be provided with a comprehensive core and mental health cover (currently with Vitality Health), subsidized gym membership, partner rewards and discounts.
• Flexi-time and place: Like many businesses, we are now fully virtual and will remain so until at least the start of 2022 – when we will be opening a creative studio space in Great Marlborough Street, Soho, London. We do not insist that our people are office based and respect everyone’s individual preference. We encourage flexible work patterns and want our people to find a fair work/life balance they are comfortable with. We are also open to applicants who may prefer to work 4 days per week.
• Solid technology kit: On joining you will receive new IT equipment including a laptop (Mac or PC) and an external HD screen for your home set-up. We also provide a contribution towards your monthly utility bills while you are home-based.
• Personal development: We want you to learn and grow with us. You will have immediate access to LinkedIn Learning, which offers over 9,000 courses across the platform. Additionally, to make sure our people are up to date with our latest work, we do regular Knowledge Share sessions, and we will work with you to create a personal career development plan. We make a commitment that every member of staff has at least 1 day a month dedicated to PD.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

Brandpie is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, reward and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

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