AddressICA are now recruiting for a Creative Lead!
Creative Lead – Hybrid
Location: Hybrid – Fort Dunlop, Birmingham
Salary: £26K per annum, DOE
Closing Date: 1st March 2024
Why do we want you?
You are an experienced graphic designer with a strong sense of creativity and design skills ensuring unique, effective and visually appealing designs.
You are hands on and have up to date design skills across multiple channels particularly Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
Your attention to detail is second to none, and you have the ability to ideate, conceptualise and take a brief from inception to completion.
You are a someone who can analyse problems, evaluate design solutions, and make informed decisions about layout, colour, typography, and other design elements.
NB. Applications without a URL link to a current portfolio will not be progressed.
About us
ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime compliance community.
Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 150,000 professionals all over the world either through their internationally-recognised portfolio of professional qualifications and training.
If you are looking for company that values curiosity, variety and flexibility, then ICA is for you.
Join us as a Creative Lead, where you’ll work with our internal teams to craft innovative, customer-focused creative concepts that provide an exceptional user experience for ICA customers.
You’ll get the opportunity to translate written briefs and partner requirements into engaging, relevant visual presentations across various mediums.
As a key member of the team, you’ll take the Creative Lead, delivering design concepts and solutions.
Your day-to-day tasks will include:
- Collaborating with the Brand Design Manager to unearth the most captivating narratives for our campaigns.
- Working with partners including product managers, marketing managers, learning developers, and copywriters to contribute creatively to the development of design concepts used across various materials.
- Maintaining the Design Language and brand identity across all ICA published materials.
- Developing visual concepts and design ideas that effectively answer a brief, communicate a message, and convey ICA’s brand identity.
- Preparing and marking up signed-off artwork for various mediums, ensuring files meet technical specifications and are optimized for their intended output.
- Collaborating as part of a team, sharing expertise and best practices, and contributing your skills to others’ projects as needed.
- Prioritizing tasks effectively, juggling multiple projects simultaneously.
- Managing time for revisions, client feedback, and iterations to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality designs.
- Working independently with confidence and initiative when required.
- Staying on top of industry developments, learning new tools and techniques, and adapting your skills to deliver innovative and contemporary designs.
In order to be successful in this role you will need:
- A portfolio that can be uploaded at the point of application
- Strong creativity and hands on multiple channels design skills.
- Fluent with Adobe Creative Cloud (particularly Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign).
- Exceptional attention to detail to ensure accurate, precise, and consistent results.
- Experience of pitching ideas to stakeholders with an ability to analyse, question and challenge.
- Experience of analysing problems, evaluating design solutions, and making informed decisions about layout, colour, typography, and other design elements.
- The ability to ideate, conceptualise and take a brief from inception to completion.
- Strong time management, with the ability to prioritise and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- A design related degree or equivalent.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience with workflow management tools such as JIRA, Tempo and Kantata.
- Experience in the use and workflow integration of Digital Asset Management systems.
- An understanding of accessibility considerations across all areas of design including design requirements and application.
- A keen interest in all areas of graphic design with a watchful eye on design trends and industry developments.
- Adaptable and open to learning new techniques, tools, and design trends to stay relevant and meet evolving stakeholder needs.
- Experience in digital animation, filmography – editing, post production.
We would welcome applications from career starters and recent graduates in relevant areas of design, where experience of the above has been gained through long term work experience or industry placements!
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