Digital Designer

Gilchrist Recruitment Partnership’s client is an award winning, growing boutique digital agency who create wonderful digital websites, products, experiences and campaigns. Gilchrist are working as a recruitment agent in relation to this job opportunity.

The Creative Division is looking for a multi disciplined Designer who specialises in digital, UX/UI and brand. You will work closely with the team to translate user needs and business requirements into wireframes & designs that produce demonstrable results.

The ideal candidate will be a creative thinker who has strong digital design skills. You should be able to communicate effectively in order to understand the criteria of a project and deliver a carefully crafted UX/UI digital and brand designs. 

You will cover digital design, strategy, web design, UX & UI, Animation, Art Direction, Social Media, Google Ads, Display & Video 360 - the entire gamut! You will work across the full digital spectrum from websites and apps to interactive brand experience and social media campaigns. You may also produce digital animations for various projects.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with project managers to establish goals, outcomes and timelines for deliverables
• Create strong visual designs based on given criteria
• Evaluate and adapt designs based on feedback provided
• Conceptualize ideas and generate content from a variety of ideas
• Understand characteristics of target audience and find effective ways to reach them

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in digital design or relevant field (or equivalent work experience)
• 3+ years of relevant experience of UX/UI / digital design within a creative agency environment 
• A fantastic portfolio showcasing your UX/UI, web design, creative
• Strong creative, design and multitasking skills
• Detail oriented
• Demonstrated ability to create effective design solutions

Our client will consider mid - senior level candidates - and absolute minimum of 3 years relevant experience. 

Your remit will cover a number of interesting, high profile clients and genuinely interesting projects, set within a highly talented and motivated team.

Salary purely dependent on skills & experience with a range of £30,000 - £45,000 (this is a guide only).

FURTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Gilchrist Recruitment Partnership are a specialist recruitment agency and recruiting partner within the Marketing, Digital communications/PR, Creative & Design and Advertising industry for Scotland, both agency and client side.

When submitting your application, please outline your current salary, salary expectations and notice period. It is also essential that you are already legally permitted to work in the UK with the associated paperwork if you are not a UK citizen.

If you are not currently living in Scotland, please explain/outline your plans and timelines for relocation to Scotland. We are a Scottish based recruiter who generally do not represent “remote” opportunities - thus you will be either living in Scotland or have solid plans to relocate.

We cannot guarantee a response to each individual application, made necessary by the level of response we receive. We will contact only those candidates we wish to shortlist. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race.

Unless clearly stated otherwise, the advertised position is a permanent contract.