Digital Creative

Rat & Boa are looking for highly collaborative hybrid creative with extensive experience in digital, brand guardianship, and art direction. A hands-on, big thinker.

Primary Responsibilities & Accountabilities 

• You will have ownership of design briefs from ideation through to completion, delivering web assets that are both on brand and adhere to UX best practices.

   

  Design and implement digital asset layouts, colour palettes, fonts, and animations that resonate with our audience and uphold our luxury positioning.

   

  You will support the creative team on a variety of art-working briefs, primarily producing web assets to support e-retail and e-com including campaign banners, art direction of web and email designs, digital templates and layout of seasonal selling tools for sales and marketing.

   

  Define and implement digital asset layouts, colour palettes, fonts, and animations that resonate with our audience and uphold our luxury positioning.

   

  You will proactively manage and be accountable for artwork quality, accuracy and consistency.

   

  You will ensure that all executions are produced in a customer-focused manner, focussed on readability, usability, functionality and performance.

   

  You will deliver against branding, UI interaction and performance guidelines.

   

Organisation ‘Fit’ & Values

• You will be an ambassador for Rat & Boa, actively promoting the company both inside and outside the business.
• You are outgoing, approachable and supportive. 
• You have a proven ability to manage workloads and conflicting priorities in a busy work environment.
• You view and welcome constructive criticism as a means for development and improvement.
• Push Boundaries - Always maintain your appetite to discover and curiosity to explore and take risks—we’re a brand rooted in travel. Find inspiration in the overlooked details others miss—this is what we live for.

   

  Design Timeless - Deliver a sense of character and individuality built on craft, design and quality—this is why nothing we create hangs lifeless on a rack.

   

  Cultivate Connection - We build deep connections in the present and the reality of life together—we’re selfless and look to invite new and interesting voices into our world to help deliver this feeling.

   

Background & Profile

Essential skills:

• An avid fan of all things design, someone who is constantly researching and looking for inspiration.
• Proven experience in a web design role within an e-retail space, preferably in fashion.
• Proactive in carrying out responsibilities, bringing creative and innovative ideas.
• Strong website design UI design skills.
• Ability to translate wireframes into web components.
• Proficient in Sketch, Figma or InVision studio as well as Adobe packages.
• Experience working with design systems.
• Good understanding of e-commerce UX principles. Background in UX a bonus.

Desirable skills:

• 3+ years of fashion design experience working in Digital Design

Soft skills:

• Must be able to work well both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Excellent communication skills, able to provide clear direction and leadership on creative concepts visually and verbally.