Senior Information Designer

Senior Information Designer

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

Reporting to: Head of Design

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 Information Designer to join a growing, award-winning, creative team with big ambitions. Diving deep into data and stories that matter, the Senior Information Designer will create compelling and engaging data visualisation across a wide range of media channels and activations, collaborating with talent across the agency as well as external partners and freelance resource. The Senior Information Designer will report into the Head of Design and will mentor at least one direct report, but we’ll want your impact felt across the team. They will be responsible for creating the vision of ‘how we do data’ here at DDB Remedy, drive the agenda and ensure we produce best in class data visualisation each and every time across all our accounts.

About you:

We’re looking for someone who loves design and data visualisation. Someone who knows how to turn numbers and stats into compelling and engaging data visuals. Someone with an inquiring mind who can dig deep into research and naturally drives collaboration with scientific writers and creative partners to create stories through the right data visuals. 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. Someone who notices the little things in life, the weird, the quirky, someone with a relentless passion for ‘what good looks like’.

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:

• Lead and develop our information design offering, helping colleagues understand and create value among existing and new clients
• Create clear, concise and compelling information graphics
• Drive collaboration and understanding among the creative team and wider agency to deliver award-worthy design output
• 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
• 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:

• A mindset for producing outstanding information design, including data mining and critical thinking – turning complex information into easily understood visuals
• Ability to spot nuances in the data/information ­uncovering compelling ways to re-tell the story.
• An amoury of visualisation techniques ­– and knowing which are most impactful communicating the story we want to tell
• Proven experience in a similar agency role
• The ability to think past the obvious for solving creative challenges through design thinking
• A passion and ability to create award-winning work
• 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 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, strategists, 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
• Proficiency of the latest tools specific to data visualisation like Tableau or Flourish

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.

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