Senior Designer

What you will do

• Partner with the Creative Director to spearhead client relationships and new business, acting as the agency's leading authority on creative execution

• Develop campaign concepts, design systems and asset frameworks

• Create social-native design and video/motion templates for Studio production

• Produce high-quality hero assets across video, motion, animation, OOH and digital

• Translate concepts into adaptable, multi-format visuals with the help of a Senior Conceptual Creative

• Use generative design tools to explore variations, treatments and visual directions

• Produce "toolkit-ready" master files for automation and AI-assisted workflows - to hand over to our AI Creative Engineer to systemise design assets for scale

• Build, manage and own the relationships with strong freelancers & an external creative roster, building a roster, evaluating the talent in them quarterly, - pulling in the right skillsets in to live projects as and when we need it

• Maintain visual excellence across rapid-turnaround environments

• Proactively push our projects where possible, spotting upsell opportunities or areas where we can drive extra business value for our clients

• Support our CD in developing the vision and strategic direction of the department

• Use generative design tools to find the right balance between human craft & AI-assisted production

• Own the new Journey Further internal brand, launching Q1

Requirements

• Strong visual design, motion and digital-first portfolio

• Ability to build scalable design frameworks - you know what core elements every campaign needs, and how they're deployed across various channels & media types

• Solid experience with generative design tools (e.g. Midjourney, Weavy, Figma plugins), using these day-to-day in your work to bring visuals to life

• Ability to work across multiple formats (motion, static, social, digital, OOH)

• Proven experience as a Senior Designer, Senior Generative Designer, Head of Design, or a similar role in an agency

• Experience pitching for and winning new business & managing client relationships

Diversity & Inclusion

Journey Further takes pride in creating an environment where everyone can be themselves. This starts with recruitment.

We pledge to make our roles as open as possible and to provide equal opportunities to everyone that is kind enough to give us their time. All recruitment decisions we take will be based solely on the positive skills and behaviours that applicants display and absolutely nothing else.

We do not discriminate based on any personal characteristic, we are a people first agency and we care about and celebrate individuals.

If something is important to you, it's important to us. If you have a particular need during the application process or during your time at Journey Further, please let us know.