Graphic Designer

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Altezza Limited is a family-run business, we are looking for great people to be part of our growing business.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a next-generation, remote-first, fast-paced creative business located in Manchester. We have an international client base spanning across technology, e-commerce, fashion, kids, household products and many more.

As a graphic designer, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality graphic design work across a diverse set of daily requests from our varied client base.

In a typical day, you could be working on everything from graphics for online and offline advertising campaigns, website and app prototypes, designing presentations for sales pitches, social media content, photo editing, amending or creating brochures, designing merchandise and even just updating text in an existing document.

Please send a link to an up to date portfolio accompanying your application:

What you'll be doing day-to-day:

• Occasionally communicating directly with our customers.

• Executing daily graphic design requests from client briefs.

• Ensure requests are being delivered to an exceptional standard and on time.

• Reviewing and proofreading your own work for accuracy and quality control.

• Pitching in with design ideas for advertising and marketing campaigns.

Essential Skills & Requirements:

• Friendly, positive attitude with a can-do mentality and hunger to develop new skills in graphic design.

• Highly organized with an exceptional eye for detail and passion for current and future design trends.

• Minimum of 1yrs commercial experience working full time in the creative industry. Agency experience is preferred or working as a busy in-house graphic designer.

• Razor-sharp, diverse portfolio of varied graphic design work. We're looking for neat and tidy layout work above all. Please don't just send a portfolio of logos.

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite products, specifically, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. (You will be asked to demonstrate your design skills as part of the interview process)

• Ability to respond to briefs quickly and accurately. Most of our client design requests require a rapid turnaround and all requests must be delivered to a high standard. (You will be asked to demonstrate your ability to read a brief and tested on how quickly you can produce a draft as part of the interview process)

• Thrive on working in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent written and communication skills with the ability to proof-read your own work before sending it back to clients is crucial.

• Experience in communicating directly with clients is desired but not essential.

• Possess the ability to look up and learn how to do new things if you’re unsure or have questions.

How Altezza will help your career

Due to the diversity of the design requests you’ll be working through daily, you will develop an invaluable set of skills that will level-up your design career in many ways:

• You’ll supercharge your skills further and learn about styling, typography, and layouts for designs across multiple commercial markets in a short space of time.

• You’ll enhance your skills in time and project management as you will be required to work with multiple clients simultaneously and to tight deadlines.

• We have regular team collaboration meetings to discuss design ideas and trends, review work amongst each other and give constructive feedback to help each other develop further.

Benefits

• Work from home position
• Company laptop scheme
• Quarterly team socials/nights out. (Post COVID)
• Exciting, fast-paced, fun, and friendly working environment
• 20 days paid annual leave (Including bank holidays)
• Opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing company with a rapidly expanding client base and ambitions to become the leading subscription-based graphic design service in Europe.

Job Type: Part-time, Permanent

Salary: Rs20,000.00-£25,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday (4 hours)
• No weekends

Education:

• Bachelor's (preferred)

Experience:

• Graphic design: 1 years (required)

Job Duties:

• Collaborate with other teams and use feedback to develop final drafts
• Revise the work of previous designers, making sure that designs meet guidelines and are consistent across formats
• Work on multiple projects at once whilst consistently adhering to tight deadlines
• Communicate frequently with clients to update them on the progress of the project and to answer any questions they might have
• Other duties as requested

Work remotely:

• Yes

COVID-19 precaution(s):

• Remote interview process
• Virtual meetings