At a Glance
- Tasks: Create stunning designs for live music campaigns and collaborate with a creative team.
- Company: We Are Your Friends, a vibrant London design agency in the live music scene.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid work, 28 days leave, and personal development budget.
- Other info: Join a dynamic startup with opportunities to grow and showcase your creativity.
- Why this job: Make your mark in the music industry with your designs seen everywhere.
- Qualifications: 3-5 years design experience and proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite.
The predicted salary is between 36000 - 44000 £ per year.
- Midweight Graphic Designer
- Location: Central London - hybrid (3 days in the office, 2 from home)
- Contract: Full time, permanent Salary: £36,000 – £44,000 depending on experience
- Reports to: Creative Director
- Start: September - October 2026
About us
We Are Your Friends is a London design agency that builds brands and designs ad campaigns for the live music industry.
We make the assets that sells shows, tours, festivals, venues, comedy, & spoken word, for promoters and producers.
Our work goes out fast and it goes out everywhere: social media, OOH, press ads, posters on the underground, & campaign identities that have to hold up from a digital crop to a six-sheet.
We're a small startup, which means the work you do here you'll see out in the wild within days of finishing.
The role
On a day to day you'll be taking briefs from the account and creative leads and running them through to delivery across campaign identity, tour artwork, poster design and digital assets.
This is a craft role first.
We care most about how you handle type, how you build a layout, and whether you can make an artist's image and a promoter's information co-exist on a page without one championing the other.
- What you'll be doing
- Designing show and tour campaign artwork across digital and print
- Poster design from headline tour art through to venue and festival collateral
- Building out campaigns into full asset suites (socials, OOH, press, print & web)
- Contributing to brand identity work for venues, festivals and promoters
- Preparing artwork for print and working with printers and media partners on specs
- Presenting your work to key stakeholders internally and client facing
- Working to tight deadlines
- Maintain accurate and up to date timesheets
What we're looking for
Essential
- 3–5 years' commercial design experience, agency or in-house
- Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite specifically Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design to a professional standard
- A genuinely strong eye for typography: you can set type well, and you can say why it works
- Confident with layout, hierarchy and composition across very different formats
- Solid understanding of colour theory and colour management. You know the difference between something that looks good on your screen and something that prints
- Comfortable across both digital and print, and able to move between the two in a day
- Experience of brand and identity work, not just artwork execution
- Able to present and explain your thinking and turn it around quickly
- Reliable with deadlines and organised with your own workload
- Comfortable using AI tools in a production workflow i. e. masking, retouching, upscaling.
- Nice to have
- Motion, animation or video editing (After Effects, Premiere)
- Web and digital product design (Figma, Webflow) useful but not expected
- Experience in or around the music, festival or live events industry
- Understanding of print production and artwork specs for outdoor and press
What we offer
- £36,000 – £44,000 depending on experience
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working - 3 days a week in the office (Tue - Thu)
- Pension: auto-enrolment after 3 months, contributions matched up to 5%
- Personal development budget for training, conferences and software
- Guestlist and tickets across our clients' shows (dependant on client approval)
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Midweight Graphic Designer employer: We Are Your Friends
We Are Your Friends is an exceptional employer for a Midweight Graphic Designer, offering a vibrant work culture in the heart of Central London. With a hybrid working model, generous annual leave, and a personal development budget, employees are encouraged to grow their skills while enjoying unique perks like guestlist access to live events. As a small startup, your creative contributions will be visible in the fast-paced world of live music, making every project both meaningful and rewarding.
