Junior Graphic Designer in Manchester

Location: Manchester city centre, four days per week in the office, with Thursday normally from home.

Contract type: Full time.

Reporting to: Global Head of Marketing, with a dotted line into the Graphic Designer.

Working hours: Standard UK hours, with occasional flexibility to work a later shift such as 11.30am to 7.30pm for US collaboration or campaign needs.

The role: We're looking for a talented and enthusiastic Junior Graphic Designer to join Housr's global creative and marketing team. Based in our Manchester city centre office four days a week, with work from home on Thursdays, you'll play a key role in supporting our global brand marketing across the UK and US. A particular focus will be creating design material for university students and college partnerships in the US market. Your work will span direct-to-student creative and materials that support our B2B relationships with universities, property partners and brand partners.

The day to day:

• Executing creative briefs: Produce high-quality graphic assets for print and digital media, following Housr's global brand guidelines.
• Designing for online and offline channels: Create engaging designs for formats including digital on-campus screens, posters, flyers, social graphics and banners.
• Supporting B2B and partnership materials: Review and polish pitch decks, partnership presentations and sales collateral for university and institutional stakeholders, ensuring a consistent and professional finish.
• Producing event and outreach collateral: Create materials for university outreach, education fairs, conferences and partnership events, including booth graphics, printed handouts and digital assets.
• Collaborating with the team: Work closely with the global marketing team, Graphic Designer and Product Designer to deliver strong, consistent work.
• Using design software: Work primarily in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, producing all designs to a professional standard.
• Motion graphics: Experience is not essential, but would be useful.

What we're looking for:

• Experience: One to two years of graphic design experience, ideally within a marketing or agency environment.
• Software skills: Strong demonstrable skills in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Figma.
• Attention to detail: A careful eye and a commitment to producing high-quality, on-brand designs.
• Versatility: Comfortable moving between consumer-facing creative, such as social content, posters and on-campus screens, and polished materials for institutional and business audiences, such as decks, one-pagers and partnership collateral.
• Adaptability: Able to manage multiple projects at once and respond to changing priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Student insight: A sound understanding of the university student demographic and what resonates with them visually.

What we offer:

• Salary - Genuinely Market Competitive!! (We’re happy to disclose our benchmarked bandings during the interview process).
• Holiday - 25 days off, plus bank holidays each year.
• Monthly Team Lunches - At the end of each month, we all grab lunch together as a team, and also have the afternoon off to focus on ourselves.
• Company socials - A chance to let our hair down as a team. Past socials have ranged from paintball to ping pong tournaments - we’re quite competitive!
• Amazing Central Manchester office space.

Interview process:

• Introductory call with our Talent Partner.
• Video call with the Design team.
• Practical design task.
• Face-to-face interview with our Global Marketing Lead.