ASOS Hiring for Senior Topshop Brand Multimedia Designer at London Full Time

We’re ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.

We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you’re free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

As a Senior Designer, you will be an extremely confident designer who thrives in a fast-paced environment delivering smart, agile and versatile designs that play a meaningful role in culture and speak to 20-somethings globally. You would be able to lead design briefs from concept to execution as well as having superb layout, typography and animation skills and experience within a design environment.

Compelling content that resonates with our customers is what we’re about and this role makes this happen. We are looking for an energetic, collaborative individual who thinks differently, pushes boundaries and isn’t content with the way things are. A strong appetite to influence change in consumer behaviour through creativity is a must.
You must be proactive and able to work independently, research and initiate exciting projects of your own. You should have lots of original ideas and be able to articulate them clearly in team meetings and brainstorms.

You’ll have great attention to detail, be driven and willing to adapt to change and go the extra mile. You’ll be diplomatic, forthcoming with ideas and initiatives, enthusiastic, a team player and a first-class communicator, able to speak to different people in a variety of departments. You will need to be able to work under pressure, to tight deadlines and be able to deliver exciting, reactive content.
You will mentor and/or manage junior members of the team ensuring their ongoing development and helping get the best out of all our designers.

What you’ll be doing

• Own and evolve our design and execution, experimenting with imagery, typography, gifs, video and animation across our various workstreams and platforms.
• Use your design skills across all disciplines to experiment with visual language.
• Mentor and/or manage more junior members of the team.
• You will be able to take direction from the Lead Designer.
• You will be a source of inspiration, bringing new ideas and concepts to work, influencing junior members of the team.
• Create visual designs that effectively communicate concepts and brand identity, as well as the design and production of screen layouts, colour palettes, interface elements, iconography, typography and the creation of style guides.
• Monitor, adapt and execute design approach and is actively aware of all areas of design and tech.
• Find design solutions that will make our audience stop and engage, compared to our competitors.
• Understand creative vision of the department and take direction from the Lead Designer.
• Actively responsive to fluctuating business workloads.
• Offer support across all brand communication on our channels.
• Consider trade objectives and opportunities when executing design content.
• Ensuring all projects are executed within timelines and schedules
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with all other departments, in particular: Content, Creative, ASOS Creates, Creative Operations, Fashion, Marketing and Social to deliver excellent ideas and executions.
• You will constantly be on the pulse of any design within the design world as well as being up to date with content from our retail competitors.

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We’d love to meet someone with

• 5+ years of experience in a design role
• Experience of mentoring a junior team.
• An outstanding design portfolio.
• Good knowledge of and understanding of the kind of design content that is widely viewed and shared across social media.
• Creative thinker with ability to push ideas.
• Fully conversant in Aftereffects, and the adobe suite.
• Knowledge of cinema 4D and video editing skills is a bonus.
• A high visual aesthetic with superb layout and typography skills.
• The ability to lead a project from concept of design to artworking and completion.
• Good knowledge of social design trends and approaches across Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube and IGTV.
• Good knowledge of and understanding of the kind of design content that is widely viewed and shared across social media.
• Team player.
• Enthusiastic and energetic.
• Ability to work under pressure and be reactive.
• Ability to work across multiple projects.
• Good communication skills with the ability to sell design ideas to wider teams or collaborators.
• Pro-active and highly motivated.
• Strong understanding of campaign development and executions.
• Confident to explore new ways of working.
• Open minded.
• A knowledge of the social landscape.
• An excellent understanding of creating content for social with the option of various formats.
• A strong interest in fashion and retail.
• Mac literate.

Additional Information

What’s in it for you

• Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
• Performance related bonus
• Flex benefits allowance – which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)

We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how’re we doing it?

Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.

We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.

There are safe space employee networks and we host a monthly DEI events series to help support and celebrate all of our people. We are constantly listening to our people, evolving, changing and taking a flexible approach to how we make ASOS truly inclusive.