Studio Manager/ Senior Digital Designer

Reference:
VAC-205
Industry Specialisation:
Gambling, Gaming, Media & Creative/Digital
Industry Sector
Corporate
Salary:
£28,000 to £35,000 Per Annum
Benefits:
Hybrid working 3 days office, 2 days home, pension, insurance etc
Town/City:
London
Contract Type:
Permanent

Our Client

Our client is a rapidly growing global brand with an opportunity for a Studio Manager/ Senior Digital Designer to become part of its exciting creative team.

The Role

Reporting to the Creative Lead, you will assist in the trafficking, delivery, and approval of all Global digital creative outputs for an online gaming company.  You will need to have experience working within digital marketing, working with creative teams (possibly as a designer), policing brand guidelines and ideally with QA experience.

You will be responsible for the timing & delivery of the Global creative Sprints, working directly with the Creative Lead, internal designers, copywriters & campaign management stakeholders. The role is supported by designers (based abroad and in the UK), the brand team and Creative Lead and visa versa. You will be monitoring all project timings, schedules, briefs and following up tasks that are set, with creative and QC approvals that adhere to the brand guidelines and the overall brand creative strategy. You’ll also be required to project manage promotional campaigns within the creative team; approving the brief, arranging the kick-off meeting with stakeholders, assigning to designers and overseeing the final creative QA for the CL to review and approve.

The applicant should have at least 3 years experience working within a fast-paced marketing design studio environment and working with marketing designers and campaign managers.

You will also need to be very experienced with Jira workflow management systems, as you will be required to use this software for all day-to-day work. Experience in Asana would also be advantageous.

We want someone with a keen eye for detail, that has extensive digital creative experience, an interest in branding and the creative process that is able to approve creative briefs with QA precision. You will be QAing all outputs of the design team in Tier 1-3 briefs ensuring they answer the creative brief, and ensure that creative templates & QC standards are upheld throughout all markets, before presenting the work to the creative lead for internal creative approval, prior to presenting back to campaign management stakeholders.

The applicant should have at least 3 years’ experience designing/ building/ producing digital static and animated display and social banners, web banners, CRM images within a fast-paced design studio environment. We want someone with strong digital ideations skills who is used to developing visual concepts mainly on their own. We need someone that can hit the ground running, is proactive, a conceptual thinker/ designer and an innovator with knowledge and experience across all digital platforms.

You will have a solid portfolio and show a diverse range of styles, skills and creative abilities.

You are ideally also someone with experience across international markets (Spain/Sweden/ Latin America) although not essential.

As the Studio Manager you will perform the following tasks:

  • Jira Sprint planning/scheduling/trafficking.
  • Reviewing, approving creative requests/briefs, sizing and assigning the work to designers.
  • Review/QA/approve all Tier 1-3 marketing design outputs (hero banners, CRM banners, landing pages, social media digital banners and Direct Mailers and ensure they answer the design brief whilst complying to internal templates and the company brand guidelines.
  • Collaborate and communicate well with all team members.QA/QC all creative requests (briefs and creative outputs).
  • Pragmatically approach projects to ensure both creative and business needs are met.
  • Regularly collaborate with marketing/design department.
  • Keep the project management team well briefed on current timings, status, and potential issues.
  • Follow the company's brand guidelines and Brand tone-of-voice.
  • Present/ produce monthly sprint reports to management.Arrange/ attend project kick-off meetings.

The ideal Studio Manager should have the following skills and experiences:

  • Jira Sprint planning/ scheduling/ trafficking of all design requests in all markets
  • Reviewing, approving creative requests/briefs, sizing and assigning the work to designers
  • Review/ QA/ approve all Tier 1-3 marketing design outputs (hero banners, CRM banners, landing pages, social media digital banners and Direct Mailers and ensure they answer the design brief whilst complying to internal templates and the company brand guidelines, before presenting for CL approval.
  • Collaborate and communicate well with all team members
  • QA/ QC all creative requests (briefs and creative outputs)
  • Be required to work on BAU design requests Tier 1-3 (graphic design tasks) when needed.
  • Pragmatically approach projects to ensure both creative and business needs are met
  • Regularly collaborate with marketing/design department
  • Keeping project management team well briefed on current timings, status and potential issues
  • Follow the company's brand guidelines and Brand tone-of-voice
  • Present/ produce monthly sprint reports to management
  • Arrange/ attend project kickoff meetings.

Basic software requirements:

  • Microsoft 365 applications
  • Jira project management
  • Assana project management
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Indesign
  • Adobe XD

The Benefits

  • This is a London based hybrid role where you will be working 3 days in the office, 2 days from home.
  • You will benefit from working with an international team and receive a salary, pension, insurance and other benefits to be discussed.