Visual Designer - 6 Months FTC

JOB TITLE:Visual Designer - 6 Month FTC

SALARY:£ 40,824 - £45,360

LOCATION:Edinburgh

HOURS:Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy. 

Whowe'relooking for

We'relooking for someone to help bring our digital experiences to life.You'lldo this by communicating visually and engaging with customers through storytelling.

We'relooking for someone in theearly stagesof their career, with around four years of experience, who candemonstratetheir skills through a strong portfolio.

About the Role

We'relooking for a Visual Designer to work within our Experience Design team of designers,researchersand strategists.

You'llhelpidentifyand solve real customer problems and ensure that we puthumansneeds at the heart of every problem we solve.

Whatyou'llbe doing

• Create engaging digital experiences

• Apply your creative thinking to solve complex problems and make them seem simple

• Makeseemingly mundanethings interesting and exciting

• Create engaging digital experiences, design interfaces for web and mobile applications

• Experience working with and contribute to our digital design system

• Design and layout pages and User Interfaces, skilfully and creatively using components from a central design system to figure out the right balance of content and UI (User Interface) elements on screen.

• Bring your designs and presentations to life with prototyping software (Figma is our main tool, experience isrequired) as well Adobe Creative suite and Microsoft tools like,Powerpoint, Excel, Acrobat. 

Why join us?

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work,we'relooking for colleagues who are up for the challenge, who love to push boundaries and can make change happen. Sound like you?

Whatwe'relooking for?

• A keen eye for detail

• Experience in solving visual design challenges

• Experience working with and contribute to a digital design system.

• Actively experimenting design using AI tools to design and prototype idea rapidly.

• Tons of energy and enthusiasm to bring visual design to where it's needed

We know thatgreat talentcomes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you:

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, andwe'recommitted to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive,learnand develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance,locationand working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet theminimumcriteria for the role with a disability, long-termhealthor neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 28days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career whereyou'lllearn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.