Job Description
Hours: Freelance or part-time basis with flexible working hours 2-4 days per week (Possibly leading to a full-time role). Working Hours are flexible (daytime, evening and weekends available)
Location: UniQ Studios, South-East London
UniQ Studios is looking for a talented Front End Web Designer / Graphic Designer to work with on a per-project or per hour basis. The role is ideal for a freelancer who wants regular work and income (we have 2-4 days guaranteed work per week) whilst also remaining independent with other client work. You will have the flexibility to work from home but must be based in London (or nearby) and must be willing to work from our South-East London office where required.
You should have experience using Wordpress, Magento (and ideally Joomla) and must have very good attention to detail and natural design flair, with an understanding of basic design principles. We are fast-growing with unrivalled ambition and require a passionate, motivated and ambitious individual to join our small but dynamic and talented team. The primary responsibility of this role is to support the professional delivery of diverse marketing and communications materials in both print and digital media.
This role is primarily a design and not a deep back-end coding/development role and ideally suited to a design graduate with strong experience or someone who has a design-related academic background with technical knowledge in HTML, JavaScript and CSS (Some PHP knowledge/experience would be an advantage but not essential). You should have an exceptional web and print design work portfolio and judging criteria will largely be based on our review of your design work portfolio.
Main tasks and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Job Responsibilities
- Develop and adapt design concepts from creative leads and briefs
- Develop and maintain the Company's brand, look and feel across several in-house websites and marketing materials
- Communicate and liaise with clients and web developers, providing appropriate feedback as necessary to progress with and complete projects
- Produce wireframes and detailed layered Photoshop graphics for web development
- Manage briefs and timelines, advising the creative director of time issues and/or any concerns that arise
- Perform quality control and multi-browser testing
- Creating and modifying spreadsheets for web content uploads
- Multitasking and handling a number of projects at one time, giving each one full attention to ensure the delivery of an excellent quality
- Digital content may include front-end website design, web-based adverts, website imagery, button design, page layout design, mini-site design, e-newsletters, HTML emails, adverts for use on social networking sites, and visual diagrams
Job Requirements
- Experience using Wordpress and Magento
- Competence in Adobe Creative Suite especially Photoshop, Illustrator
- Understanding of design and layout principles
- Motivated and positive attitude and strong work ethic
- Ability to take initiative
- Strong communicator with good written and spoken English
- Natural creative flair with an exceptional eye for detail
- Ability to take initiative with excellent time management skills & multi-tasking abilities
- HTML, JavaScript and CSS knowledge/experience
- Must be a completer finisher
- Experience using Joomla - Desirables but not essential
- Strong PHP and back-end coding knowledge/experience - Desirables but not essential
Selected applicants will be invited to attend UniQ Studios for an interview.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of an exciting and fast-growing creative production studio.
We are fast growing with unrivalled ambition and have openings in a number of fields for passionate, motivated and ambitious individuals to join our small but dynamic and talented team in our UK office. We have several full and part time vacancies and we take on experienced professionals as well as apprentices and graduates with the potential that matches ours.
