Creative Concept Designer
An exciting new opportunity for a creative and conceptual mind!
- Job Title: Creative Concept Designer
- Level & Responsibility: This role might be better known as Art Director in other businesses
- Salary: £33,000+ per annum, depending on experience, and a 10% discretionary bonus
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Location & Hybrid Working: London, a minimum of days in the office per week
The role
We are looking for a Creative Concept Designer to join our Creative team at SMG who will be responsible for helping improve the creative output and make the most of every conceptual opportunity that comes our way. You will be a creative storyteller who likes to have a combination of ideas and design at the centre of their work. You will be involved in delivering well-thought-through, beautifully designed ideas across a whole spectrum of consumer touch points such as in-store, OOH, print and social to name a few and will be adept at turning strategic and brand visions into great creative solutions.
Why SMG?
We are dedicated to supporting our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised by Best Companies within the top 5 best Marketing & Media agencies to work for, with a World Class and Outstanding accreditation across the past 2 years.
We are also dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...
💰 Generous discretionary bonus scheme
🧘♂️ £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions
🫶 4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing
📚 £500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development
🎧 Free headspace subscription
🕐 4pm Friday finishes all year round
🥳 Two fully paid conferences a year in Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year
Why you?
In line with our company values, within your role you'll want to stay honest, stay hungry, stay foolish, and most importantly, have fun! More specifically, you'll have / be:
- Experience working as a Creative Designer or Art Director in a fast-paced marketing, digital or media agency environment - or similar.
- Can share a portfolio of conceptual examples across multimedia channels - produced for agencies and brands.
- A design/art director’s eye and interest in all things artistic and creative.
- The ability to manage your time and prioritise work to ensure deadlines are met.
- Independently motivated but can also play your part in a collaborative team environment.
- Driven by creative excellence with an expectation of delivering the best possible work, no matter the project size or budget.
- A confident and engaging communicator with the ability to articulate and present work internally and externally.
- Confident and experienced in Adobe Creative Suite; InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Experience in After Effects, and motion design.
- An understanding of the artwork process and how to supply print-ready design work when needed.
- Comfortable producing scamps and mood boards to communicate an idea, as Mac visuals.
- Good organisational and admin skills.
- An ability to work at pace, across multiple projects and subject areas.
- Stays up to date with the latest innovations in design and creative tech.
P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing
We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:
- Supporting the Creative Director in concepting, designing and delivering top conceptual design solutions for SMG clients.
- Taking the lead on conceptual design projects.
- Working closely with other departments and stakeholders to achieve great creative objectives.
- Being involved in a project from the concept stage, which might be scamps to final mocked-up versions.
- Designing and art directing effective concepts that are on brief, on time and on budget.
- Thinking strategically to create concept/design ideas that turn business problems and brand visions into reality with creative proposals of the highest standard.
- Presenting your ideas and designs internally and externally and taking those around you through your thinking, how you landed on a creative concept and how it answers the brief.
The process
- We will invite you to a first interview which we try to keep relatively informal, so it gives you the opportunity to share your authentic self. The hiring team will be looking to understand more about your experience and why you're interested in working with us.
- There will be a second interview which will last a little longer, and involve some form of task to showcase your ability to do the role.
- We then invite you to a meet & greet which is an opportunity for you to meet the team you'll be joining and ask them questions about the role and wider business.
🌟 Helping you shine 🌟
We are committed to helping you shine and show your full potential by making any changes you might need throughout your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role and its requirements, changes to be made to the way we hold our interviews, or anything else, then please reach out to us. You can either let us know on your application form or contact the people team to discuss how we can help on careers@smg.team.
🤝 SMG are proud to be an equal opportunities employer 🤝
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Life at SMG
Our workplace culture is super important to us and we have a team dedicated to making SMG a great place to work. Whether it's Wellbeing Wednesday, a virtual quiz, or giving back to our charity partner The Trussell Trust, there is always something going on here at SMG. Take a look at some of the things we've been up to on our Life at SMG page.
Creative Concept Designer
An exciting new opportunity for a creative and conceptual mind!
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