AddressJob Title: Senior Brand Designer
Reporting to: Product Design Lead
Location:London, United Kingdom
Who we are and why we exist
At Liberis – merchants matter most! We've been on a mission to provide small and medium businesses (SMEs) with accessible and responsive finance since 2007. SMEs account for most businesses worldwide and are critical contributors to job creation and global economic development. They represent about 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment worldwide. Despite this, more than three quarters (77%) of SME businesses last year were unable to secure the traditional bank financing they desperately needed to grow and thrive. This has created a $5 trillion funding gap for SMEs globally.
That's where Liberis steps in! To best help small businesses, Liberis has built the leading global embedded finance platform. Through this, Liberis provides partners with the technology and financial solutions necessary to offer personalised and accessible funding to their small business customers.
To date with ~20 global strategic partners and direct reach to more than 1 million small businesses, Liberis has provided $1 bn of funding in over 50,000 transactions, enabling more than 100,000 jobs to be created and saved. We are making a genuine difference to your local pub, hairdresser and online retailer!
We are in a very exciting period of growth, in the UK and internationally, with teams based in London, Nottingham, Stockholm, Atlanta, Munich and remotely. We are looking for talented and ambitious individuals to help us reshape business finance. How we work is as important to us as what we do – exemplified by our behaviours:
#1 Merchants matter most – our success is tied to our merchants' success
#2 Act like time is running out – the fastest company in a growing market will win
#3 Own every outcome – the hardest problems we face are yet to be solved
#4 Communicate directly – we don't have time to beat around the bush
#5 Prove it - every feature we build, decision we make and action we take, matters
#6 Empathy always - Liberis wins when every employee thrives
Design at Liberis
Liberis believes in a world where funding is accessible and frictionless for small business. No more tedious documentation, hundred page business plans and endless back and forth required by traditional banks. Instead, imagine if finance was never further than just a couple of clicks away. With funds reaching you exactly when you need them, allowing you to focus on what matters most - your business.
Making this a reality? As Liberis designers, well that's our business.
It could be yours too. Our design capability at Liberis are currently seeking a talented Graphic Designer with a multi-disciplinary skillset who will be able to work with stakeholders across the business to ensure consistency in brand standards whilst providing high quality deliverables across all of our communications and digital experience touchpoints.
Some of the benefits of the team:
- Lots of autonomy as part of a growing design team
- Dedicated user research capacity in-house
- The opportunity to work with our major global partner brands (Barclaycard, Uber, etc)
- Commitment to development with an annual learning budget of £1000
- We're a hybrid team - we can discuss where you work best London/Stockholm/Nottingham or remotely
Intrigued and want to know more? Head over to Life at Liberis!
What you'll bring
- Strong Communication and Storytelling - You care deeply about the message that lands with your audience. Intuitively knowing exactly when to apply different visual techniques and formats, all whilst making the complex seem simple.
- Expert in design software - Strong proficiency in visual design software - Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro and AfterEffects are a must.
- Outcome focussed - You are able to apply your expertise to create high-quality deliverables time and time again, moving at pace to deliver to meet deadlines and stakeholder expectations.
- Awareness of industry & design trends - A strong sense of style and awareness of contemporary design trends that are reflected in your design outcomes.
- Collaborative & open - You are patient with stakeholders and are very confident leading others through a thorough design process. Sharing ideas early and transparently, you also enjoy knowledge sharing when possible to help others gain understanding of design principles.
- Multi-disciplinary design - You're comfortable with different techniques to deliver the best outcomes and bring creative concepts to life, including mockups, motion graphics and video editing when required.
- Portfolio - For this opportunity, we would love to see a portfolio that demonstrates your design process and showcases what you're passionate about as a designer. We will value strong communication of messages and a clear design process that demonstrates informed decision making and outcome.
What should I expect in the role?
- Creative direction - You'll be leading the brainstorming, concept iteration and execution of engaging campaigns and communications content working closely alongside our product, partnerships & marketing teams.
- Brand guardianship - Providing ownership and guidance on brand standards across all print and digital touchpoints to ensure consistency in visual language. This may require submitting briefs and working alongside creative branding agency.
- Visual asset creation - Lead on the creation of pixel-perfect artwork as well as collaborating with product designers to create assets that are optimised for performance across different devices.
- Business development - You'll own the visual direction of sales artefacts and presentation decks, supporting our business growth through engaging storytelling and graphic design. This will require execution of well structured layouts, typography and clearly defined information hierarchy.
- Be part of an exciting customer-led culture - You'll have lots of autonomy to directly shape projects, offer your perspective as part of regular design crits and attend events as part of a product-led organisation that encourages professional growth and development.
What happens next?
Think this sounds like the right next move for you? Or if you're not completely confident that you fit our exact criteria, apply anyway and we can arrange a call to see if the role is fit for you. Humility is a wonderful thing, and we are interested in hearing about what you can add to Liberis!
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