The world’s leading Research, Strategy and Creative Agency for the kids and family market is looking for an enthusiastic and talented Senior Designer to join our creative team. You will have a strong portfolio demonstrating work full of beautiful and clever branding and digital work. You will show a keen interest in the latest design and digital trends.

You’ll work closely with our Creative Director, producers and developers - currently based remotely - to produce exciting branding and content for our international clients. You’ll have an eye for visual impacts and be able to translate requirements quickly into ideas, eye-catching designs and character animations will be hugely advantageous.

Key requirements:

  • Working knowledge of industry-standard creative suites essential - especially Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch/Adobe XD, ideally one 3D Software (Unity, Maya, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max) and basic knowledge of After Effects
  • Great visual design skills and a meticulous eye for detail
  • Experience working closely with brand guidelines
  • An understanding of HTML and CSS and experience of working closely with Front-end developers
  • Ability to confidently present your work to a variety of stakeholders and justify all design decisions
  • A good understanding of user experience principles and user interface design
  • Possess an understanding of interactive UX and UI - Knowledge of web and mobile accessibility issues
  • Experience in Keynote, Google Docs and Powerpoint would be advantageous

Key experience:

  • Design skills that extend beyond digital into branding, typography, animation, etc.
  • Deep understanding of digital tools, trends and foundation
  • Has intermediate level experience working with motion or animation software. (After Effects)
  • Has strong knowledge of usability and interaction design

Key responsibilities:

  • Articulating design ideas and solutions in a compelling way to clients and colleagues
  • Taking ownership and being solely responsible for the design output of a project
  • Collaborating with the client and various disciplines within Kids Industries
  • Ensuring work adheres to budget and time constraints
  • Solving problems with innovative visual solutions
  • Creating industry-leading design work that pushes and inspires the studio
  • Working with creative leads daily to make remarkable work
  • Supporting the new business team in creating outstanding pitch design creative
  • Provide accurate time estimates to digital producers on upcoming client projects

Benefits:

  • Medical Insurance
  • 28 days holidays and office closed over Christmas and New Year period
  • Duvet days
  • Structured training opportunities and development plans
  • Subsidised food and drink, free lunch Fridays, office beer fridge, office socials
  • Commitment to a healthy work-life balance
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Close-knit team - that takes pride in supporting each other and creating beautiful work through collaboration
  • The work - working with children and family audience inspires a lot of innovation and is inherently playful. Our clients deliver strong business results, but will also not shy away from having happiness, magic, or justice as part of their mission statement

About KI:

We make family targeted brands stronger by delivering award-winning Insight, Strategy and Content. We work across multiple disciplines and in multiple industries. We've got researchers, marketers, designers, developers, strategists, geeks and psychologists all pulling together to make new things for the family.

We've built global websites, no1. apps, award-winning hotels for the family, developed new global TV stations, created new cereals, launched new products and researched just about everything under the sun.

There is no other company that offers our level of family understanding coupled with the ability to turn this into effective strategy and content. We have offices in London and Cape Town and are busy trying to take over the world including an office opening in the US in 2021.  We work with a loyal portfolio of international clients, from FMCG, entertainment and retail as well as developing our own projects.

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