Role and team

We’re looking for a Visual Designer to join our in-house Design Team.

 The Design Team at giffgaff are a small but mighty team. Working across our Product, Commercial and Advertising Teams they

• A visual and verbal storyteller, generate emotion, and visual engagement with work.
• Ready to collaborate, and build relationships with various product teams and UX designers.
• Create user experiences that are consistent in the physical and digital work, through research, analytics, testing.

Role Description: 

• Ensure our work communicates clearly, is on brand, and delights users.
• Have a strong sense of typographic design, layout, colour and how to use illustration for the right business goals.
• Know how to design across various devices (UI) in close collaboration with developers and their technical restraints. 
• Advance Visual Design as a discipline and a practice at giffgaff.
• Explain, discuss, and justify design decisions eloquently. Give effective feedback and direction to other team members.
• Maintain and improve all aspects of a flexible design system, component library in Figma (e.g. mastheads, buttons, alerts, forms. 
• Give presentations about design work in progress.
• Understand brand strategy and the critical processes that drive them and the key players involved. Extend the brand identity system to digital touchpoints.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of working on cross platform design - all touch points within the service experience: Mobile/App/Web, responsive and mobile friendly; 
• Have knowledge of design for print, and finalising files for print.
• Understand export of files intended for digital touchpoints.
• Layout with set UI components with spacers and a set typography scale.
• Design iteration and testing and learning.
• Understand human computer interaction and the principles of UX.
• Work within AA rated WCAG guidelines for accessible design.
• Art direct and design out of home ads, digital ads, printed SIM packs, and various marketing collateral.
• 5+ years of experience in software such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator).
• Candidate must possess a digital design portfolio

Preferred Qualifications

• Exemplary design sensibility and command of industry standard design software (i.e. Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign). 
• Experience with video editing, animation/motion graphics, and prototyping software is a plus.
• Knowledge of and curiosity about technology and its impact on design solutions.
• Demonstrated expert creative problem-solving skills to help establish a look and feel for a given project, brainstorm, think, and respond quickly.
• Proven ability to maintain attention to detail across project deliverables.