Visual Designer (12-Month FTC) - #1785546

JOB TITLE: Visual Designer (12-Month FTC)
LOCATION: Edinburgh
SALARY: £59,850 - £66,500
HOURS: Full-Time
DURATION: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the Edinburgh office.

About this opportunity
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.

As a Visual Designer, 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.

What you'll need

• 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

About Working For Us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• A discretionary annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today and let's create something extraordinary together!