Junior Brand Designer

At Smart, our mission is to transform retirement, savings and financial wellbeing, across all generations, around the world.

We’re looking for a talented and versatile Junior Brand Designer to help bring our brands (Keystone and Smart Pension) to life across all touchpoints. Reporting to the Brand Studio Manager, this is a key role within our growing global business, delivering high-quality, consistent, and engaging creative across digital and offline channels. You will be responsible for designing a wide range of creative assets for our core brands, across a range of channels digital and offline. You’ll work closely with marketing colleagues and wider teams across the business, translating briefs into compelling visual solutions that align with Smart’s brand guidelines. This is an exciting opportunity for a creative, organised designer with a strong eye for detail and a passion for brand. Experience in financial services is not required, but a strong portfolio and a willingness to learn are essential.

Design and create branded assets across multiple channels, including:

• Digital banners and paid ads
• Email templates
• Infographics and other visual assets
• Slide presentations (Google Slides)
• Social media content
• Print and offline materials

Support the Brand Studio Manager in maintaining and evolving the Keystone and Smart Pension brands across all external and internal communications. Ensure all creative work aligns with the brands’ visual identity and brand guidelines. Work closely with stakeholders across marketing and the wider business, taking briefs from concept through to final delivery. Produce simple scale motion graphics for digital channels where required. Develop and adapt creative assets for different markets, formats, and platforms. Manage and update design files and assets within the marketing collateral library. Support the creation and maintenance of assets and templates for use across the business. Work on multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining high design standard(s).

The skills, experience, and aptitudes we are looking for are listed below but please don’t be discouraged from applying if you don’t meet every single one of these criteria – having a ‘can do’ attitude is sometimes more important than being able to tick every box:

• At least 1-2 years’ experience in a graphic design role in an agency or inhouse role.
• Qualifications in design or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator (mandatory).
• Basic level motion graphics experience using tools such as After Effects or equivalent.
• Experience designing for a variety of digital and print mediums.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating brand, digital, and multi-channel design work.
• Excellent attention to detail with a high standard of finish.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and managing competing deadlines.
• Highly creative with the ability to generate original and effective visual idea(s).

We work in partnerships with governments and financial institutions in the UK and internationally. Our cloud-native digital platform is revolutionising how people around the world think about, and save for, their retirement. At heart, we’re a financial technology business. What we do is all about innovation, and using the power of digital change to put the customer first. Our Engineers will tell you that working at Smart gives you the opportunity to play your part in developing world-class technological solutions, working with – and learning from – like-minded people. You’ll also find that, across our business, our colleagues love Smart’s culture, and how what we do means better financial outcomes for savers. That feels worthwhile, and it means that what we do, collectively, goes way beyond the nine to five of a typical working day.

At Smart, one of the eight principles we work to is “We want happy and good people in our team”. We created a list of benefits that helps us achieve this goal:

• 25 days’ holiday per year, increasing with length of service.
• £500 annual training budget to spend on your professional development.
• Extensive private healthcare, including dental, eyecare and EAP.
• Enhanced sick leave (three months’ pay per year).
• Enhanced maternity and paternity (maternity – 6 months fully paid/paternity – 3 weeks fully paid).
• Death in service insurance cover.
• Fully-paid five-week sabbatical after five years of employment.
• In office wellbeing, such as manicures, massages and barbers.
• Smart employees also enjoy a 50% discount on orders from our sister company Arena Flowers, Britain's most ethical florist.

At Smart, we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to do their best work. We believe that diverse perspectives help us lead the way in transforming retirement, savings, and financial wellbeing. We welcome differences in background, experience, thinking, and identity, and we recognise that innovation is strongest when it is built on inclusion and fairness. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to let us know - we are committed to supporting you. We think Smart is an awesome place to work. If it sounds like somewhere you’d like to work, too, and if you’re ready to play your part in our continued success in the future, then naturally we’d love to meet you.