Equator Design
Middleweight Designer
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About SGK and SGS & Co
SGK and SGS & Co have built an impressive roster in creative, strategy, digital commerce, experiential marketing, engineering, and creative content production—bringing together the incredible talent of 2,300 agency professionals. This collective expertise will come together under Marks, a Next-Gen Creative Platform built to thrive in today's global and local cultural conversations. Equator will continue to play an important role as an agency within Marks.
About the Role
We are currently seeking a Midweight Designer to join our talented team. This is a hybrid role based in our Birmingham studio to work primarily on packaging design for one of the world’s leading toy manufacturers.
The packaging needs to inspire the shopper’s imagination to build and play, so we are looking for someone who is a strong storyteller who can create compelling concepts.
You will be a valuable player in the Design Team, building your expertise across brand design, typography, illustration, photography, finishes, and print processes. You’ll be delivering great work to the brief time after time. You’ll also be growing in creative confidence, outwardly presenting your ideas with conviction and clear rationale.
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This role represents an outstanding opportunity to join a talented team in an agency that is growing, and enjoy a first-class culture where you will have the opportunity to work on a globally recognised brand, whilst also having the opportunity to develop your career within a global, market-leading agency.
What you'll do
- Working with Design Directorate and Senior Designers to understand the brief, brand guidelines, technical constraints for the project and aiding them guide junior team members
- Challenging the brief, delivering the expected and the unexpected in your response
- Effectively managing your time, collaborating with Resource Managers
- Being a team player. Keeping the channels of communication open between Design, Client Service, Strategy, and Operations teams, seeking guidance when things change
- Adding value to internal design reviews, offering fresh perspective, giving feedback to executional consistency, art direction
- Championing and following our file set up, file naming, and server filing procedures
- Pro-actively assisting the team, contributing to studio inspiration and design events
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What you'll have
- 2-5 years experience within a Brand/Packaging Design agency in Design roles
- Engaging & strong storytelling skills
- Understanding of strategic, creative, and commercial aspects of brands and the world they inhabit
- Experience/Interest in art directing as you’ll be working closely with the CGI team
- A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration, or related field
- Excellence in Adobe CC (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Keynote, but also understand the power of a sketch
What we offer
You will enjoy a base salary, along with the other benefits of working for Marks including:
- 25 days annual leave
- Pension
- Healthcare scheme
- Life insurance
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