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Senior Designer, London, £40k - £45k

Location: East London
Salary: £40k - £45k

Chance to join a top London agency working on one of their highest profile retail consumer accounts. You will be a passionate leader who can apply visual design best practice to an ever growing, ever changing, large scale e-commerce website and lead a team to do the same.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the creative direction of the in-house creative team, working closely with the client design lead.
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of graphic and technology trends and competitive activity in the UK.
- Lead, design direct and guide the design team to brainstorm ideas, select design ideas to progress. Estimate time frames for briefs, prioritise projects and schedule work with the team alongside the producers.
- Maintain and evolve the creative guidelines for the online expression of the brand, as well as liaising directly with the brand design studio to ensure a consistent execution across all channels
- A natural communicator, you will grow close partnerships with the client team and other areas of their business to and establish good working processes. You will attend regular client meetings and report comfortably to the agency team.

Skills required:

- Experienced (5+ years) web designer from either client or agency background
- Retail/ecommerce experience
- UX experience
- Knowledge of CSS/CSS2
- Experience leading a team and mentoring designers
- Creative, innovative, open to new ideas
- Proficient in Photoshop and basic knowledge of Flash
- Experience of content management systems
- Experience documenting web style guidelines
- Used to working to tight deadlines
- Experience of working with Agile methodologies (desirable)
- HTML/XHTML and Javascript (desirable)
- Experience creating wireframes and user journeys a bonus

Ref: RS/B19378
Contact: Ruth Sharp

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