Mid-weight Designer - Focus on UX

Salary: £33,000 to £38,000 (Dependant on experience) + discretionary bonuses

Location: Central London

Basic Hours of Work: 40 hours per week (Mon-Fri 9am to 6pm)

To Apply: Please apply by emailing a CV and covering letter and your portfolio to: ruth.emblin-james@89up.org

Are you an experienced designer looking for an opportunity to apply your creative talents to campaigns that genuinely change the world?

About the Role

At 89up, we are dedicated to delivering world-class digital and printed content for our clients' campaigns and organisations. This encompasses impactful video and static content for social media and events, print collateral, and comprehensive visual branding. These outputs are frequently integral components of larger integrated communications campaigns delivered by our agency, or specific requests from clients to empower their work. Our design team collaborates closely with our web design and development team to craft exceptional websites for campaigns and large organisations.

We are seeking a talented and proactive Mid-Weight Designer to join our dynamic team as a maternity cover to work across web, digital, print, and brand. We're looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple diverse projects with agility, and is deeply passionate about contributing to good causes. You should possess a keen interest in design and creative trends, constantly exploring how these can be effectively implemented for our clients. The ideal candidate will be adaptable, confident in taking initiative, and eager to contribute across various facets of our creative output.

What You Will Do

• UX/UI Development and Design: You will work closely with our web specialists to conduct UX research, strategies and develop wireframes for our clients' organisational or campaign websites.
• Website Design: You will be developing design concepts, full website designs and design assets for our clients' organisational or campaign websites.
• Social and Digital Content: You will conceptualise and create a wide range of compelling social content (moving image/animated and static), as well as digital display ads, ensuring they are optimised for impact.
• Print Design: You will be responsible for designing high-quality reports, event collateral, and other print materials, ensuring brand consistency and visual appeal.
• Brand Development: You will develop visual branding for campaigns and organisations, working with colleagues in research & insight to ground the visual concepts in data insights.
• Creative Development: You will play a key role in evolving internal and client briefs, contributing innovative ideas for pitches and campaigns.
• Team Collaboration & Mentorship: Working closely with our Head of Design and supporting other designers, you will contribute to the production of high-quality outputs.

What We’re Looking For

You will be a smart, proactive, and highly organised individual capable of managing multiple projects and client requests efficiently. Your fascination with how motion and graphic design can inspire, communicate, and evoke action will be evident in your portfolio. You should be expert in current trends and creative concepts within social media content and broader digital design.

Core Skills

• Demonstrated high-level competency with Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop is essential.
• UX/UI Design: Experience in UX development and web design, including wireframing, prototyping, user flows, and conducting user research.
• Graphic Design: Proven experience designing for both print and digital outputs, with a strong portfolio demonstrating your capabilities.
• Communication: Very high standard of written and spoken English.
• Adaptability: Willingness to train and effectively utilise new software and tools.

Highly Desirable Skills

• Application Proficiency: Experience with Webflow highly preferred.
• Web Platform Experience: Experience using content management systems (especially Drupal or WordPress).
• Technical Understanding: Knowledge of HTML/CSS and base knowledge of SEO.
• Marketing & Strategy: Understanding of digital marketing strategies and the integrated communications landscape.
• Project Management: Experience in preparing and presenting proposals, client, and resource management.

What We’re Offering

• Hybrid Working: 3 office days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday as core days). You may need to come into the office on Mondays and Fridays for important meetings.
• Generous Leave: 24 days per year (pro-rata for the duration of the contract) (a maximum of 4 days are taken for closure over Christmas, plus an additional day off on your birthday).
• Competitive Compensation: A competitive base salary with performance-linked discretionary bonuses twice yearly.
• Family Support: Enhanced maternity/paternity pay.
• Financial Security: Pension company contributions, gold-plated sickness benefits, and life insurance.
• Wellbeing: Online GP, private counselling, eyecare vouchers, and a comprehensive wellbeing service.
• Inclusive Culture: A strong commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• Career Growth: Clear career progression pathways and opportunities to develop in a fast-growth agency.
• Mentorship: Formal mentoring and training schemes to support your success.
• Impactful Work: A dynamic work environment where your contributions are heard and counted, not lost in the noise and tangle of a large corporate business.

This is an opportunity to work on some of the most pressing issues of our time, with people who are committed to making a difference. If you’re passionate about how creative ideas can drive change, we want to hear from you.

About 89up

89up is Europe's first impact agency. We campaign for great causes, build technology, tackle complex problems, and inspire action. 89up was founded with a clear mission: to create a powerful integrated communications agency for the world’s most important causes. In the last eight years, we’ve become one of the Financial Times 1,000 fastest-growing companies in Europe, twice, and won awards for some of the biggest non-profit campaigns around the world.

We are a fully integrated communications agency with four main teams:

• Our Studio team crafts beautiful content including graphic design, animation, and live‑action video.
• Our Advocacy, Insights, and Mobilisation team delivers data‑driven insights for impactful strategies to mobilise audiences.
• Labs team builds innovative websites and bespoke advocacy tools to engage consumers and decision‑makers.
• Our PR team makes sure our campaigns make the headlines.

From freeing political prisoners to taking on the banks who fund the climate crisis, to EU campaigns against fossil fuels, to PR campaigns for the world’s biggest charities, to global challenges that excite people to make change – make a difference in your career at 89up.