Creative Designer in London

Salary: £41,000 - £43,000 per annum, plus company benefits

Location: London EC1Y

Contract: Full time, permanent

Shifts: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with a weekly rotating shift pattern (8:30am–4:30pm, 9:30am–5:30pm, or 10:30am–6:30pm) including a 30‑minute unpaid lunch break

Work model: Hybrid; with 2–3 days of remote work per week

Williams Lea seeks a Creative Designer to join our team!

Purpose of role:

We are an in-house brand and creative team within a Magic Circle law firm, working as a fully integrated partner to the business. We deliver strategic branding and creative solutions across the firm, including the development of a new visual identity and its rollout across offices. Our work spans a broad range of projects, including social media, digital content, events, marketing materials, and internal communications, ensuring a consistent and well-crafted brand experience at every touchpoint.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver designs from concepts through to final execution, working closely with internal teams to ensure effective and timely outcomes
• Ensure all outputs are on‑brand, fit for purpose, and delivered to a consistently high standard across digital and print touchpoints
• Interpret and challenge client briefs, advising on style, layout, and best practice within corporate and brand guidelines
• Own the management of design standards and templates, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and scalability
• Act as a trusted design partner to clients, educating and influencing them towards effective and functional design solutions within scope and budget
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, overseeing timelines, quality control, and delivery while maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships

Personal Attributes:

• An experienced Creative Designer (3+ years) with a strong understanding of brand and design across digital and physical channels
• Comfortable working independently, prioritising effectively and iterating at pace
• Experience working both agency‑side and in‑house, with a solid understanding of corporate environments and high‑end clients
• Brings a strong creative sensibility with an exceptional eye for quality, detail, and visual craft
• Confident communicator, able to engage directly with clients, interpret briefs, and clearly articulate design thinking
• Proactive problem solver with the ability to challenge, improve, and add value through design
• Reliable under pressure, able to deliver high‑quality work to tight deadlines

Core Design Tools:

• Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Firefly)
• Microsoft Office proficiency, including PowerPoint for creating and updating presentations as needed

Technical Skills:

• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong application of typography, layout, colour, and composition
• Translate complex information into clear, visually engaging content
• Design presentations, reports, and editorial content with a strong narrative flow
• Apply visual storytelling techniques to enhance messaging and impact
• Ensure content clarity and consistency across internal and external communications
• Develop and apply design systems and templates to ensure consistency and scalability
• Produce high‑quality digital and print‑ready assets, managing production requirements end‑to‑end
• Balance creative exploration with practical constraints such as timelines, formats, and budgets
• Ensure quality control and accuracy across final deliverables
• Collaborate with external vendors or internal production teams as required
• A portfolio demonstrating a diverse range of creativity

Optional / Nice‑to‑Have Software:

• Motion and video tools (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition)
• Figma for UI design, prototyping, and collaboration
• Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS for improved collaboration with developers
• Experience with AI‑assisted design tools or emerging creative technologies

Rewards and Benefits:

We believe in supporting our employees in both their professional and personal lives. As part of our commitment to your well-being, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to:

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time or fixed term roles)
• Salary sacrifice schemes, retail vouchers – including our TechScheme which can be used on a range of gadgets such as Smart TV’s, laptops and computers or household appliances.
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Health Assessments
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Discounted gym memberships
• Referral Scheme

You will also have the opportunity to work for a global employer who is dedicated to offering each and every employee an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects!

Equality and Diversity:

The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (each of these being a “protected characteristic” in discrimination law). It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor and will build a culture that values openness, fairness and transparency.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like to make a reasonable adjustment to enable you to make an interview please contact us at careersatWL@williamslea.com (we do not accept applications to this email address).