Senior Digital Designer

Package Description

THE FUN STUFF 

There are lots of reasons to be excited about joining Team Selfridges – from our fantastic team member communities to volunteer days and behind-the-scenes Selfridges experiences throughout the year.

Other benefits and rewards include:

• Generous bonus and/or commission scheme
• Discounted gym memberships
• Pension contributions
• Annual travel pass and cycle to work schemes
• A volunteer day for all team members
• Access to a wide range of training programmes to help your career development

Job Introduction

Are you looking for a new Senior Digital Design role that gives you opportunity to use your digital knowledge to help take the channel to the next level? Are you looking for a new challenge which provides the opportunity to work in a growing and developing team? Looking for a company that wants to help further your career in digital design as well as provide you with an exciting, inspiring and fun place to work?

If the answer to all of these questions is ‘yes’ then you’re just the kind of person we’re looking for!

A bit about the role

As our new Senior Digital Designer, you’ll help define and develop design creative across Selfridges’ digital channels. As part of this, you will:

• Design engaging and inspiring editorial content, working closely with the Art Direction and Editorial teams as part of the wider Creative Studio.
• Collaborate with the wider Multimedia Creative team on creative campaigns,
  bringing ideas and opportunities to the table, and exploring how these can live and be amplified through digital.
• Deliver engaging and brand focused designs to support all areas of digital marketing,
  working closely with the brand graphics team on multichannel briefs to ensure an aligned approach and vision.
• Work hand-in-hand with UX and Development, support with wider site design and improvements; constantly looking to push forward the Selfridges digital experience.

You’ll be reporting into the Head of Digital Design, working closely with the rest of the Multimedia Creative Team, wider Creative Studio and other key teams within the business.

A bit about you

• You’ll have demonstrative experience in working in both digital editorial design and creative digital design, with experience and an understanding of a collaborative, teamwork approach.
• You’ll have experience in and an understanding of UI design, and the fundamentals of a mobile first approach and responsive web design.
• Experience in using CMS systems, with an intuitive approach to using them in different and creative ways to realise engaging designs.
• You’ll be used to collaborating with not only UX and Development teams, but wider creative and cross-functional departments.

This job is a brilliant opportunity to join a growing and evolving team who looking to drive the Selfridges digital experience forward. This is a great opportunity to take your next step with the proven experience you have accumulated, or to expand your horizons within a creative driven retail company. It doesn’t just stop at Digital Design either - we have lots of opportunities to get involved and collaborate on projects and in communities internally, so no two days will ever be the same. As Harry Gordon Selfridge once said, ‘There’s no fun like work!’

A bit about us

We are a shop run on imagination: a place where the world’s most covetable brands combine with the most extraordinary spectacles, events and ideas for an experience like no other.

We have challenged the rules of retail from day one, whilst demonstrating our unwavering commitment to sustainability.  In 2016, we were the first to be awarded with recognition for the ‘World’s Best Sustainability Campaign by a Department Store’ at the IGDS Global Department Store Summit, in-line with its focus on buying better and inspiring change. We are also recognised as the Best Department Store in the World (2010, 2012, 2014 & 2018) underlining our place at the forefront of retail. In 2018 we were recognised as a LinkedIn Top Company to work for.

Our vision is to be the destination for the most extraordinary customer experience, and our people are central to us achieving this.  As an employer we are committed to making Selfridges an exciting, inspiring and fun place to work