Senior Brand Designer

SENIOR BRAND DESIGNER

Location: 12 Bishop's Bridge Rd, Greater, London W2 6AA

About DDB Remedy:

We strive to be the most innovative and inspiring creative healthcare agency in the world, making things happen.

Through deep partnerships, smart strategy and applied creativity, we create exceptional experiences and communications. We make meaningful change in healthcare happen.

Our ethos? “It happens here”. It’s our promise, our challenge, and our invitation.

And if you’ve got potential to unlock, talent to unleash and a desire to wow clients, we want to make it happen.

DDB Remedy. It happens here.

The opportunity:

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Designer to join a growing, award-winning, creative team with big ambitions. The primary focus is brand identity development but working on everything from print, digital and experiential, the Senior Designer will report into the Head of Design and will manage and mentor at least one direct report, but we’ll want your impact felt across the team. Collaborating with talent across the agency as well as external partners and freelance resource, the Senior designer will be responsible for driving the vision of their allocated brands delivering an industry-leading design product each and every time.

About you:

We’re looking for someone who loves design, specifically brand design, someone who notices the little things in life, the weird, the quirky, someone with a relentless passion for ‘what good looks like’. You’ll know what makes a great brand and how to tell compelling stories to make it shine. You have natural instinct and flair for making the ordinary look extraordinary, you’ll be a master of your craft, one who can bring a different perspective to each challenge and (like us) won’t settle until it’s right. 

You’re going to be a figure head in the team and others will look to you for guidance and opinion, so you’ll need to be diplomatic and brave, you’ll instinctively know when to listen and when to speak up. You won’t be afraid to say you don’t know, but you will then go and figure it out.

If you’re looking to grow and want to challenge yourself to produce best-in-class work that matters, get in touch.

What we’ll need you to do:

• Turn brand strategies built on insights into visually stunning ideas
• Understand marketing initiatives, strategic positioning and target audience
• Ensure a high standard of visual execution across all media and campaigns
• Generate original ideas and visual concepts that are on brand and future facing
• Be able perform under pressure and deliver high-quality work to tight deadlines
• Partner with internal and external creative resource; film teams, animators, illustrators, copywriters
• Collaborate across departments to deliver award-worthy design output
• Ideate storyboards and partner with 3D and motion teams bring ideas to life
• Manage multiple projects from concept through completion
• Team development: Contribute to the development of direct reports/mentees, ensuring they are thriving within the team and their work. Help translate the creative vision of the agency through yours and their work
• Support and on occassion deputise for the Head of design
• Be passionate about contributing to building our agency culture

What you’re gonna need to bring

• Proven experience in a similar role and you must have agency experience
• The ability to think past the obvious for solving creative challenges through design thinking
• A passion and ability to create award-winning work
• Passion for branding and understand how to build impactful brands that stand the test of time
• A digital first mindset, with a love for typography, print and everything in between
• A drive for solving creative challenges through design thinking within tough regulations
• An eye for detail, craftsmanship and current trends
• A brand champion attitude, able to apply guidelines consistently but also know when to challenge to deliver a better result
• A pitch mentality and can develop persuasive rationales to get the idea over the line, helping our clients and internal teams buy into award-winning work
• A confidence in presenting to senior clients, clearly rationalising your decision making
• A pragmatic mindset to critical feedback
• Masterful diplomacy – collaboration with art directors, copy writers, motion designers and artworkers, you’ll need to take ownership of your work and use the wider teams to elevate the output
• A process driven approach to work, but you can challenge to make improvements
• Self starter discipline – we work a hybrid model, but always able to create time for in-person collaboration
• Expert level Adobe Creative Suite and Figma but you are keen to keep learning
• Experience creating and collaborating to deliver integrated 360º marketing campaigns in; advertising, branding, experiential, moving image, digital and print.

What’s next

For us, people always come first, and ours are amazing. Everyone who comes through our door is not only talented and nice, but they’re themselves. Unique and diverse. We’re only as strong as our people. And It Happens Here is an invitation to empower each other to thrive. To create an environment where you develop personally and professionally. It’s an invitation to define your own pathway.

The most important part of the process is you. We’re all wonderfully different with unique identifying characteristics, and we are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process. If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please let us know.

For us, inclusivity and diversity aren’t “nice-to-have” – they’re central to our business strategy. The more inclusive we are, the more people feel they can bring their whole selves to work, the better our work will be.

Please contact our Talent Partner Kayla Mayston (kayla.mayston@ddbremedy.co.uk), to find out more.