Senior Visual Designer – Manager

Salt is excited to be working closely with a customer which are a major Consultancy. Our client operates on a large scale with offices on in the UK and Europe. Our customer is working on some fresh new assignments in 2022 therefore is keen to hire a Senior Visual Designer.

Senior Visual Designer

About the role

The Visual Design role combines design for interaction (UI/UX, design systems and digital products) and design for communication (brand, print, and visual storytelling). We are looking for someone who can balance functional clarity and emotional impact across a range of brand led multidisciplinary projects.

As a Senior Visual Designer, you are expected to represent depth in the craft of visual design: as an individual contributor, and as a mentor and guide for more junior colleagues. You will often be the backbone of your projects from beginning to end. You will help plan, prioritise, and deliver visual design activities within engagements. You will lead client conversations within your specialism, providing articulate recommendations and helping guide client choices. You will have opportunities to lead teams on projects and contribute to business development through proposal-writing and pitches.

We will rely on you to:

• Be a master of your craft, enabling the team to deliver on challenges that are new to them and pushing the boundaries of what can be delivered
• Set the bar for the quality of the work produced by the Design team
• Set the strategic agenda of the Design team with the Head of Design
• Autonomously run the Design team’s contribution to pitches and proposals
• Establish innovative ways of creating ideas, bringing them to life and presenting them
• Understand the needs of the live projects, matching them with the right Design team skills and team member
• Look at the bigger picture to give client and customer context for design decisions
• Use past experience and client knowledge to spot and resolve problems and blockers
• Take on challenging conversations and situations to ensure the best possible solution within the context of a project
• Are industry-leading in your craft and can use this to attract and retain talent

On a typical project you will:

• Craft user interfaces for digital consumer and enterprise products and platforms
• Design brand identities and brand collateral
• Create scalable design language systems for typography, colour, components, and layouts
• Quickly formulate creative ideas based on insights and intuition
• Prototype ideas quickly (i.e., make the simplest artefact possible to test a hypothesis or assumption)
• Work closely with the UX team to design experiences across devices, and touch-points
• Participate in multi-disciplinary co-creation workshops at different points throughout the product- and service-design process
• Create expressions for mood, tone, look/feel to help clients position their product, brand, or service
• Evolve brand expression; by building on either existing direction, or creating one from scratch
• Harmonise needs of the user (accessibility, usability, navigation, key features) with more emotional values of design to create unique and distinguished brand experiences
• Frame a vision for art direction, photography, and illustration to reinforce product/service vision
• Continually create digital products and concepts that push the bar for quality and excellence in each field/industry

We want you to have:

• 6+ years of professional visual design experience (although you might have had a different job title, like “UI Designer” or “Digital Designer”)
• Highly developed design skills, demonstrated in your portfolio of recent work
• Previous experience within an agency, client-side or consultancy working in a collaborative environment
• Experience helping UK and/or Global brands design and deliver digital products and services.
• An energetic and passionate design approach sweating the details – working across devices, touch-points and technologies
• Confident presentation and storytelling abilities
• Experience collaborating in multifunctional teams as the visual design lead
• Proficiency with contemporary design and prototyping tools and methods
• A passion for creating products that meet users functional and emotional needs
• Business level ability in English
• It would be a great if you had:
• A university degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or a related design or artistic discipline
• Experience working in a variety of organisations (start-up, corporate, agency/consultancy)
• Academic, professional, or life experience from outside the design field that enriches your perspective as a designer