Visual Designer

Visual Designer

London

Hybrid working

6 Months initially

One of our large financial clients is currently looking for an experience visual designer

We're looking for someone to help bring our digital experiences to life. You'll do this by creating visually and engaging with customers and stakeholders through storytelling.
Someone who can work collaboratively alongside a full design multidisciplinary team, with a willingness to learn from - and actively support other Visual Designers.

An experienced Visual Designer to work within our Experience Design team of interactions designers, researchers, content writers and strategists. Working effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope. You'll help identify and solve real customer problems and ensure that we put human's needs at the heart of every problem we solve.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced a Visual Designer to work within our Experience Design team of designers, researchers and strategists.

You'll help identify and solve real customer problems and ensure that we put humans needs at the heart of every problem we solve.

It'll be your role to:

• Apply your creative thinking to solve complex problems and make them seem simple
• Design production assets, infographics, logos and other elements
• Create engaging digital experiences, design interfaces for web and mobile applications
• Make seemingly mundane things interesting and exciting
• Support us scale and hone our digital design system
• Mastering storytelling techniques to help the business communicate effectively
• Bring your designs to life with prototyping software
• Working effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope.
• Engage with design teams and communities of practices to understand objectives and opportunities aligned to good customer outcomes
• Design and layout pages and User Interfaces, skillfully and creatively using components from a central design system to figure out the right balance of content and UI (User Interface) elements on screen.
• Bring your designs and presentations to life with prototyping software (Figma is our main tool, experience is required) as well Adobe Creative suite and Microsoft tools like, Powerpoint, Excel, Acrobat.

Skills

• Demonstrable experience within Visual Design
• A collaborative mindset ready to support a busy multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience in solving visual design challenges and deliver experience-led brand digital journeys
• Tons of energy and enthusiasm to bring visual design to where it's needed
• Understand and contribute with existing digital Design System and be an advocate of accessibility standards
• Ambitions to work collaboratively with - and learn from - a full-stack design team, including Researchers, Content Designers, Service Designers and Interaction Designers.
• Strong ability to see designs through to delivery - communicating with developers to ensure designs meet specifications and can be used by a broad range of users of all backgrounds, ages and abilities

If you're excited by this role but your skills and experience don't quite fit the job description, please apply anyway. We'd love to hear from you.

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