Senior Brand Designer

About For Different

For Different unites creativity with commercial insight to craft brands and experiences with heart and ambition. 

We are a small but mighty studio. We craft strong, beautiful brands, grounded in sound design principles and strategic insight, ready to connect seamlessly in the digital and physical worlds.

Our team heralds from all over the world and mostly works remotely. We have a beautiful studio HQ in leafy Oxfordshire as well as a base in West London. We’re looking for a Senior Brand Designer to join us and become an integral part of our dynamic team.

The role

We’re looking for an accomplished designer with an ambition to explore and present challenging ideas and concepts. We are looking for someone who is inspired by the creative world around them and has the skill and commitment to present their ideas to the highest standards.

Offering senior design support on a range of projects - this is a diverse and hands-on role, working closely with the rest of our creative team, developing and applying concepts across physical and digital outputs.

The day-to-day

• Generating ideas with strong conceptual foundations. Delivering compelling work from beginning to end.

• Preparing and presenting work, putting together materials for pitches, presentations, and workshops.

• Taking responsibility to hit deadlines and always being mindful of timings.

• Supporting team members across the design and client service teams to meet collective goals.

• Managing external suppliers to ensure they deliver to our high creative standards.

• Being culturally connected, understanding new waves and trends. Attending events, exhibitions, and connecting to universities and design institutions.

• Actively contributing to our culture.

Who are we looking for

A Senior Designer who has passion for Brand.

You are a bright and enthusiastic communicator who is able to pitch ideas to key stakeholders across the business and to effectively collaborate with your Creative Director to achieve the team’s overall vision. 

You will bring positive energy and a creative point of view to the brand community and be a pivotal creative team member.

Key skills and qualities

• 6+ years of industry experience with proven skills and competencies. You must also show an ability to learn and develop.

• You are experienced with typography, colour, layout, and imagery and know how to bring these elements together to embody a brand’s personality, voice, and values.

• Your thoughts are not bound by convention. You are brimming with originality and new creative ideas and approaches, bringing them into the studio and on specific projects. You invent new, original ideas that solve the brief.

• You understand and are fueled by great strategy’s power to ignite projects.

• You manage your time effectively, maintain responsibility for your projects and ensure they always run smoothly.

• You can demonstrate high-level, hands-on skills in the latest creative software.

• Ability to flex and work within any industry, with any type of client, anywhere in the world (from startups to corporations to schools and beyond).

• Experience in motion is a bonus.

• Curiosity, generosity, and kindness.

• If you feel as though you don’t meet all of the requirements listed, but are still interested we encourage you to apply. We’re looking for talented and friendly people more so than ticking boxes.

What we can offer you

• £40,000 - £50,000 salary PA, depending on your experience

• Pension scheme

• Annual bonus scheme

• Remote working

• Generous holiday package plus your birthday off

• Flexible working

• An amazing like-minded team to work with

The not-so-small print

• Please include a link or attached (under 20Mb) portfolio of relevant work.

• We are flexible with regards to location, there is the possibility of working remotely or on-site and we are open to discussion for the right candidate.

• Applicants must have the right to work within the UK.

• We're very sorry to say that due to a high volume of candidates, we will only respond to those shortlisted for interviews, but thank you in advance for reaching out.