Junior Designer - Events

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The Role
The Junior Designer will be part of a team of seven designers. The main responsibility will be the hands-on production of visual marketing, communication and physical (at-event) assets for FT Live’s events. The Junior Designer will join our lively, enthusiastic and highly-skilled team which works together to ensure that FT Live is successful in maintaining and further developing a strong, sustainable events business across both digital and in-person events. 

You’ll be a strong candidate if you can demonstrate passion for animation and video editing packages - we use Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects with various exciting plug ins.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• The creation of designed event materials, using pre-agreed creative design routes and applying brand guidelines accurately. Materials will include:
  • Video for social media and physical stage set, at-event banners and signage, web banners, digital advertisements, websites, HTML emails, printed and electronic brochures and invitations press advertisements.
• With mentorship from other team members, develop new appealing and eye catching creative routes for new events
• Work with external third-party suppliers, for example printers and video editors
• Work on several projects at the same time, and with guidance from other team members, ensure projects are accurately prioritised
• Deliver high quality work on time, to deadlines
• Accept, respond to and implement feedback from stakeholders on designs

 

Key Skills & Experience

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate that they have the following:

• A recognised design qualification
• A portfolio of outstanding design work from education and/or commercial projects
• A passion for video / motion graphics
• A passion for typography
• Strong skills in Adobe Creative Cloud packages such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Ability to notice intricate details
• A confident communication style, comfortable communicating ideas to peers
• Ability to work in the Mac OSX operating system, in the Google Workspace, the Adobe Creative Cloud suite and Figma (or similar prototyping/design tool)
• A desire to develop new skills (technical, design and professional skills), and an ability to adjust to using new technologies and platforms rapidly

 

Desirable Skills and Experience

The following would be advantageous though training can be provided:

• Some previous commercial design experience, though we are open to a recent graduate with a strong portfolio of education projects
• Editing websites (with or without HTML / CSS / Javascript) - we use Bizzabo
• Project management software - we use Asana
• Canva - we don’t design much in it ourselves, but it’s a key package for FT Live. Because we use Canva to enable our marketing teams to self-serve for some simpler design assets

What’s in it for you? Our benefits

Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best-in-class perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave packages, subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here.

We’ve embraced a 50% hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite) that fosters trust and remote adaptability while encouraging in-person camaraderie and peer learning. Additionally, we are open to accommodating specific flexible working pattern requests for all roles where feasible.

Accessibility

We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, email talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help.

Further information

At the FT, we embrace innovation and the use of technology and appreciate that individuals may leverage AI tools as part of their job application process. Whilst we are happy for you to use AI to assist with your application, it is essential that all information provided is authentic and accurately represents your skills, experience, and qualifications.

Candidates should be aware that the use of AI throughout the application process may be monitored to ensure a fair and transparent hiring process for all.

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE APPLICATION CLOSING DATE FOR THIS POSITION IS FRIDAY 14TH MARCH AT 5PM GMT.

 

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