Digital Designer

Digital Designer - Manchester

What if your expertise could help someone, somewhere, to live a better life?

Helping children living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to communicate their pain, giving people with psoriasis their confidence back, shocking 2.3 million HCPs into taking action against second heart attacks to proving to the world that eczema isn’t a skin condition.

Havas Lynx Group is a creative communications agency dedicated to changing the way the world does healthcare communications for the better. We are committed to bringing about change. Change informed by experience, driven by innovation and proven in delivery. We work alongside healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and pharmaceutical brands to overcome the complex challenges of modern healthcare. Our work blends strategic insight and deep scientific understanding with creativity and digital innovation, delivering healthcare campaigns and solutions that really make a difference to people’s lives.

An accredited Top 40 ‘UK Great Place to Work’, we’re a team of over 500+ people in Manchester and London, with a history of over 35 years and an ever-evolving future. You can get a feel for the #LYNXLife via YouTube, #LYNXLife playlist, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Everything this company achieves, every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins, is down to everyone that works here.

Our role

From day one, you'll take charge of producing digital design outputs that actively contribute to moulding experiences for a varied portfolio of clients and brand audiences. This position offers the chance to immerse yourself in a diverse array of project types, collaborating with professionals from different disciplines. As you progress, you'll have the opportunity to demonstrate your passion for creativity and technology, delivering exceptional experiences and advocating for your work and team. Your role will involve conceptualising and developing digital designs for various platforms, making crucial decisions on functionality and innovative design. Additionally, you'll play a key role in inspiring our development team to create exciting and user-friendly digital experiences.

What you can expect to be doing

• Crafting high-calibre designs for websites, mobile applications, user interfaces, and diverse digital platforms.
• Shape the digital design process, encompassing the creation of user personas, mapping user journeys, crafting wireframes, and developing a design system
• Work closely with the strategy and development teams to create integrated UX/UI design systems.
• Deliver end-to-end design support across project life spans - including research, concepting, prototyping, design guidelines, and QA.
• Craft user-centred design approach with a focus on accessibility
• Strong understanding of UI design principles such as composition, typography and iconography
• Diligently collaborating with developers to ensure design integrity is maintained.
• Consistently challenge the norm, actively seeking novel approaches to bring brands to life in the digital environment.
• Offer colleagues and clients digital design advice grounded in industry best practices.
• Enthusiastically staying current with the latest trends and driving innovation in UI design solutions.
• Staying up-to-date with the latest design trends, tools, and techniques, and incorporating them into your work. Sharing these internally and externally, as appropriate.
• Input to insights, thought leadership and R&D experiments

Requirements

• Showcase of a robust digital portfolio featuring relevant work.
• Proficient in digital design and prototyping software, with a primary focus on Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Previous experience working in an agency.
• Familiarity with front-end development, including a comprehensive understanding of its flexibilities and limitations.
• In-depth knowledge of user-centered design principles, adept at translating complex ideas into intuitive and visually appealing designs.
• Understanding of digital design systems, design processes

What you can expect from us

A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It’s a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.

You can also expect a whole host of benefits, including:

• Hybrid Working

• Starting holiday allowance of 28 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, with increasing allowance connected to length of service

• Option to buy, carry or sell holidays

• Early Friday finish throughout the year

• Seasonal working hours

• Enhanced family leave, pay and return to work benefit scheme

• Extensive L&D support

• Sabbatical opportunities

• Season ticket interest free loans for travel

• Cycle to work scheme

• Life insurance (4x salary)

• Company pension scheme

• Fully compensated company events

• Volunteer days

• Wellbeing programme including sports clubs, discounted gym memberships, free onsite flu vaccinations, extended lunch breaks on Wellness Wednesdays and much more

• +Medicash healthcare benefit

• 24/7 access to a free, confidential and independent Employee Assistance Programme

• Workplace nursery benefit

Get in touch to find out how we can make an impact that matters together.