Senior Graphic Designer in Bristol

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About the role

Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) are now recruiting for a Senior Graphic Designer to join our Graphic Design team where you'll work independently within marketing squads and the department influencing at creative, process or production level. You'll be solving design problems using your own initiative, proactively promoting collaboration, and persuading squads and stakeholders to adopt a client focused approach to creative problem-solving whilst strengthening design team/department capability by proactively sharing knowledge and coaching peers. As a Senior Graphic Designer, you'll be championing the brand and its consistent delivery across the business with the ability to operate at tactical or strategic level. This is a really exciting role where you have significant influence over the direction of marketing, brand, client outcomes and organisational success.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working collaboratively and building successful relationships within squads, stakeholders, and wider business to better inform design solutions
• Iterating and improving designs based on evidence and sound rational
• Supporting marketing and development teams with clear rational and documentation
• Conforming and contributing to organisational design standards
• Working to brand, design guidelines and pattern libraries, and comfortable to challenge and evolve when required, ensuring the quality of output in both print and digital media
• Developing end to end solutions from concept creation through to delivery, alongside developers to ensure the design work is effectively implemented and looks great
• Working with the User‑centred design department to help shape the design team within HL
• Collaborating and supporting the design team to ensure consistency across platforms and media, developing the teams design approach
• Sharing work with colleagues for critique, provide constructive, actionable critique on the work of others and facilitate critique sessions
• Proactively share knowledge effecting positive change across the team and wider department

About you:

• Excellent knowledge of established design approaches, patterns, and marketing process
• Ability to set up and run collaborative design workshops
• Experience with digital and print medias. Marketing, campaigns, internal external communication, and social media
• Confidently design creative solutions whilst considering all accessibility needs
• Clearly articulate design decisions and rational to stakeholders and wider business
• Passion for creative design, keeping up to date with trends, techniques and emerging patterns
• Strong attention to detail, with excellent visual design knowledge and experience
• Ability to work, and be resilient, in a fast paced and changeable environment

Interview process

The interview process for this role will be two‑stages, which includes presenting some work from your portfolio.

Working Schedule

This role is based in Bristol head office, BS1 5HL. This role is permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We have returned to the office, however for this role we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern to enable you the option of working from home and coming into the office.

Portfolio Submission - Please attach or share a copy of your portfolio with your application.

Why us?

Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments. To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We’re steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What’s on offer:

• Discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year at annual enrolment
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL’s future
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• Help@hand and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Gympass - gym memberships and wellbeing apps available
• Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities
• An in‑house barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks
• Join HL’s sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)
• LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.