Sr Designer

Overview

We are SGK, a global agency that focusses on brand experience and packaging design. We are looking for a Senior Designer to join the brand solutions team.

We are currently in an exciting period of growth, and we are looking for someone who can work closely with our CD and DD. Predominantly working for a leading FMCG brand with opportunities to work across our portfolio of pack clients when the need arises. The briefs we work on are varied and solutions are led by the client’s needs. The role has a focus on pack design, brand guardianship, key visual and POS.

We work hybrid with 3 days from home and 2 from the office in London (Angel), with another office in York and a photography and video studio in Leeds. We also regularly work together with our production team in Newcastle and international teams in the US, LATAM, Asia and China.

Your general skills

·       Create amazing work

·       Make work that is effective and delivers on the objectives of the brief

·       Construct clear and convincing presentations for internal and client purposes.

·       When required present work internally and to clients

·       Brief and support illustrators, artwork and production team inside and outside of SGK to create what is needed

Your roles and responsibility

·       Extensive experience as a designer

·       Experience working in a creative agency

·       Good conceptual skills

·       Excellent visual design skills and attention to detail

·       Good working knowledge of print production

·       Strong visualisation and sketching skills

·       Experience in brand guardianship and/or understanding brand essence

·       Experience creating story boards and working on motion

·       Fluent in Adobe CS

About You

• You love good design. You have a positive mindset and inspire people you work with
• Experience with conceptual and adaptive briefs, ensuring the design is on brand and on brief, but beyond expectations
• You make jobs your own, push creative boundaries and create the best possible design solutions
• Experience working in an agency, working closely with the CD, client services, clients and production doesn’t hold any surprises for you.
• You can communicate your ideas clearly in words and scamps
• Experience creating concepts, adaptive work, mood boards, POS and presentations
• Good understanding of relevant software and print production
• Team player, working closely with other team members on and off site
• Good communication, presenting work to clients and team members, asking questions to make sure you know all you need to know about a project, explaining what you need from others or raising flags when things don’t go as planned.
• Be flexible. We work on a large range of projects for our client. Some jobs might stretch your skills while others might not feel like a challenge to you at all. We need you to deliver the best solution on all.