Senior Digital Designer
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Were looking for a Senior Digital Designer to join our fast-paced forward-thinking Digital Design team to shape standout creative across our digital marketing channels. Based at NEXT Head Office in Leicestershire with a competitive salary range!
The Social and Content Digital Design team is a collaborative team of eight designers responsible for creating standout work across all digital marketing channels (Social TV Onsite Ads Display DOOH etc). Day to day they work on social media advertising video editing ad concepting and onsite advertising. They work closely with brand marketing social planning and performance teams to deliver creative that not only looks great but drives results with a strong focus on innovation and cross-channel thinking.
About The Role:
As a Senior Digital Designer youll play a key role in ideation - ensuring creative output not only grabs attention but also aligns with best practices and help elevate how our brand and partner brands show up online. Youll work across concepting design animation and delivery with close collaboration across marketing brand trade and commercial teams.
Youll be responsible for generating concepts developing high-impact visuals and working with some of the worlds biggest brands. From initial creative thinking through to final delivery youll bring ideas to life through design animation and video - delivering engaging content across onsite placements and offsite platforms like Meta YouTube and more.
What else is involved
- Generating creative ideas and developing digital-first concepts for onsite and offsite channels
- Leading video concepting and ideation for onsite ads ensuring ideas are engaging brand-aligned and platform appropriate
- Presenting concepts confidently to internal stakeholders and brand partners
- Collaborating with brand marketing and trade teams to shape concepts formats and creative approaches
- Partnering with performance teams to ensure creative supports conversion and sales goals
- Creating style guides brand decks and visual toolkits where needed
- Applying and adapting guidelines styles and layouts across formats
- Working closely with internal and external stakeholders including design leads across the department
- Exploring new tools techniques and processes to keep the team ahead creatively and technically
Youll be doing all this from our Leicestershire Head Office. Our offices are inspiring yes. But we understand that life happens. So were big on making sure your work works for you which is why we offer flexible working - minimum 3 days in the office per week and 2 from home.
About You:
- A strong creative portfolio with 5 years experience in a similar digital or creative role ideally within fashion retail or eCommerce
- Comfortable presenting ideas and design rationale to internal stakeholders and external brand partners
- Strong communication skills with the ability to take feedback onboard and refine work where needed
- Experience working with fashion or lifestyle brands with a good understanding of brand tone audience and seasonal trading cycles
- High attention to detail and a sharp eye for layout typography and storytelling
- Proactive flexible and adaptable - able to respond to shifting priorities and business needs
- A collaborative team player with a positive can-do attitude
Technical Skills:
- Excellent skills in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro with the ability to edit and reformat video content for different media outputs (e.g. Meta YouTube onsite)
- Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud
- Good working experience of Figma - from layout to prototyping and asset handover
- Familiarity with Google Workspace tools - Drive Sheets Slides - for briefs feedback and creative sign-off
- Experience using Asana or similar project management tools
- Awareness of paid social platform formats (Meta YouTube TikTok etc.)
This role is perfect for a confident ideas-led designer with a strong background in digital advertising video editing and motion design - ideally within eCommerce retail or a fast-moving in-house/agency environment.
Please include a portfolio of commercially focused animations videos and campaign work as part of your application wed love to see how you think and create!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Graphic Design
- CSS
- HTML5
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Fpga
- Digital design
- Web Design
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Responsive Web Design
- Sketch
- Adobe Indesign
About Company
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now po ... View more
