Junior Digital Designer

Are you a Digital Design graduate looking for their first step into the industry?

Interested in spending 12 months learning from an experienced design team, gaining the essential real world design skills to catapult yourself into a career as a Digital Designer?

Perhaps you have experience already from a university placement, but this is by no means essential.

If so, we have a great opportunity for a Junior Digital Designer to join our Craghoppers Digital Team on a 12 month fixed term contract.

The Junior Digital Designer is responsible for supporting the Craghoppers Digital Design team across BAU design briefs & creative concepts where required.

Working closely with the Digital Designers and Content Team, you will ensure creative consistency throughout the Craghoppers brand across all digital platforms by maintaining and implementing digital guidelines and best practices. This position will execute of the design vision set by the senior digital design team, resizing assets where required for various platforms & channels.

This role ensures day-to-day design requirements are met, coordinating with Front-end developers, UX/UI designers and Trading, Marketing and Brand teams.

The Impact you will have in this role is:

• High quality digital asset design and production for all digital channels, ensuring brand guidelines are met, with pixel-perfect design, including converting Brand Marketing campaign artwork into digital designs.?
• Following detailed design guidelines across all digital platforms, which have been embedded and rolled out across all digital channels including website content, social media, affiliates, email etc.?
• Engaging content which is robust and delivered on-time, meeting the needs of Trading and Marketing teams, ensuring design practices are consistent yet adapted as necessary for international audiences.?
• Optimised designs and content, working closely with Content and CRO teams to test and measure engagement, adapting designs as required to deliver continuous improvement of content.?
• New and innovative design concepts developed, through the capture and interpretation of CRO and Analytics insights, to develop highly targeted and engaging assets and experiences.?
• Documented and shareable design trends, ensuring brand designs are up to date / ahead of the market and competitors, carrying out user group research and creating mood boards to progress concepts.

As our future Junior Digital Designer, you will have:

• A relevant design based degree.?
• Experience working from briefs.?
• Experience creating conceptual artwork.?
• Production of and maintenance of design systems and guidelines.?
• Confidence in working with multiple teams and excellent communication skills.?
• Ability to communicate personally in meetings, large groups and to seniors.?
• Attention to detail.?
• Ability to work remotely when required.
• Awareness of the importance in planning and developing digital assets for trade activity and large events for Peak periods.
• Experience in Adobe creative suite.?
• Exposure to UXpin, Figma or Adobe XD or other similar services (beneficial).

We can offer you:

• Discretionary profit share bonus
• Pension
• Staff discounts
• Access to company benefits website
• 24 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
• An extra day of annual leave for every 3 years' service up to an additional 3
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity scheme
• Birthday hours
• Company walks
• State of the art Head Office
• A paid day off for volunteering
• Free parking
• Subsidised canteen and Starbucks
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Fitness suite with options including Yoga and Bootcamp classes
• Shower facilities including hairdryers and GHD straighteners

Our Regatta Family:

The Regatta Group supplies quality outdoor clothing and accessories through our 3 great brands - Regatta, Craghoppers and Dare2b - whether exploring the Amazon rainforest, walking your dog in the local park or cycling the Tour de France, we have what you need.

It’s a friendly, supportive family business – a place where bakers, dog walkers, book worms, students, parents, travellers, movie buffs, foodies, festival goers, musicians and more come together to create experiences consumers really appreciate.

The thing we all have in common, is that we share the same core values of Great Relationships and Entrepreneurial Spirit.

Our investment in the environment:

Sustainability is at the core of everything we do, and you will have the opportunity to support our Group wide sustainability committee and put ideas into action and really make a difference to the world we live in!

If this sounds like the role for you, please don’t hesitate to apply now.