Senior Graphic Designer / Art Director
London, Shoreditch
Full time
Hybrid, minimum three days in office
An award-winning retail design agency who partners with leading retailers and consumer brands across brand design, strategy and interiors are looking for a Senior Graphic Designer to join their talented team. You will be working with a diverse range of exciting brands across culture, fashion, sports, and technology this busy studio is looking for someone who can effectively work across the creative solutions for retail, brand experience and brand communications projects, working with the internal and external team to realize work from concept to completion.
About Us
We are a growing team that is both strategic and multidimensional in our designs that specialise in live brand environments. Our clients value our insight led approach to develop environments that blur the lines between the physical and digital across all our creative proposals from experiential activations to interior retail design.
Your Role & Responsibilities
Design and execute high-quality graphic and motion assets across various formats – across print and digital media for experiential spaces, retail spaces, print and digital.
Art direction of content briefs for stills and motion assets – from strategic concept to on set delivery with partner teams
Adept at creating graphic toolkits and systems for graphic strategies – ie. Wayfinding/ instore communication/ visual centre hierarchy
Possesses excellent storyboarding skills to plan and visualise photoshoots
Technically execute print and motion graphics for production.
Possesses the ability to create and maintain brand assets.
Produces custom illustrations and graphics to enhance visual content.
Working alongside the studio team to develop new concepts and develop strong creative solutions
Delivers strong design presentations with compelling narratives to clients using existing tools and design approach
Take ownership of creative challenges from brief to delivery including presenting and developing client relationships
Demonstrate strong industry knowledge and expertise.
Work closely with the creative and account management teams to exceed client expectations, helping to deliver high quality design work.
Maintains consistently high-quality design standards on all projects.
Attends / inputs into creative briefs, pitches and brainstorms and supports on the agency’s creative output.
Stays up to date on the latest design trends, tools, and technologies in both graphic and motion design. Continuously experiments with new techniques and styles to keep designs fresh and innovative.
Desired skills and experience
8+ years experience as a senior graphic designer/ art director
Experience on set and working with DOP/ Photographers and production teams
Experience working with editors and retouch artists
Client facing experience
Experience in managing junior team members
Candidate must have experience in responding to creative briefs with a strong mind for ideation and conceptual design
Proficient in Adobe CS, Miro and Figma
An education and passion for Retail, Interiors, Design and Branding
Open minded and willing to adapt to, and absorb company work methods whilst being eager and motivated in helping to improve standards as part of a group decision
The ability to understand and interpret architectural drawings
The ability to produce graphics schedules and sign off print proofs
The ability to work with producers and print vendors to execute print media
An attention to detail and ability to work in a highly productive environment
In addition, the candidate must be:
Highly motivated, fresh thinking and on trend
Creative and quality driven
Ambitious and empowered, using this opportunity for personal development and to shape the way the agency grows.
A self-starter capable of working within a team and independently able to work under pressure and deliver on tight deadlines.
Working Pattern
• Standard hours 9.00am to 5.30pm with flexibility as required
• Based in our Shoreditch office
• Hybrid working model with minimum three days in office and two days working from home
Skills Required
- 8+ years experience as a senior graphic designer/ art director
- Experience on set and working with DOP/photographers and production teams
- Experience working with editors and retouch artists
- Client-facing experience
- Experience managing junior team members
- Proficient in Adobe CS, Miro and Figma
- Strong ideation and conceptual design in response to creative briefs
- Ability to create and maintain brand assets, graphic toolkits and systems
- Strong storyboarding skills for planning and visualising photoshoots
- Ability to technically execute print and motion graphics for production
- Ability to understand and interpret architectural drawings
- Ability to produce graphics schedules and sign off print proofs
- Ability to work with producers and print vendors to execute print media
- Attention to detail and ability to work in a highly productive environment
- Education and passion for Retail, Interiors, Design and Branding
- Open minded, adaptable, and collaborative team player
- Ambitious, self-starter able to work independently under pressure
What We Do
Seen Studios is a London-based creative retail design, activation and content agency. It designs purposeful brand environments and experiences for global brand partners, connecting brands with communities and shaping cohesive customer journeys. Its in-house capabilities span strategy, concept development, 3D and spatial design, user experience design, and creative project and production management, with creativity, consumer insight, and sustainability at its core.
