Midweight Designer

About Ignite

Ignite is an award-winning integrated creative agency based in London with offices in Colorado and Florida. We build brands and experiences designed to unlock the power of our clients, exploring new ways to engage audiences with progressive ideas and high impact creative.

In the last few years we’ve created iconic brands for new restaurants across Europe with Marriott, sparked a new generation of category-defining pizza in the UK, and partnered with luxury hotels in the US.

About the role

As a Midweight Designer, you will play a central role in shaping the agency’s design output. Creating work that cuts through and excites audiences, you will be responsible for responding to design briefs with forward-thinking ideas and high-quality, creative solutions.

You are someone who has their finger on the pulse of culture and likes to challenge how design can be used to build and activate brands. Someone who has a passion for the craft of design and an ambitious mindset for big ideas. Someone who can bring their expertise and creativity to our team and seeks skill development.

You’ll be working within our design team across a wide range of projects for some of the most exciting brands in food, drink, travel, and leisure, crafting creative solutions across branding, advertising campaigns, website design, and digital experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Creative Excellence: Develop inspiring design ideas and execute them across a range of online and offline applications, ensuring high-quality, impactful creative solutions.
• Client Collaboration & Communication: Lead client-facing presentations, articulate design rationale confidently, and build strong relationships through proactive and clear communication.
• Project & Time Management: Successfully manage multiple design projects simultaneously and maintaining quality and attention to detail. Responding productively to changing deadlines and priorities. 
• Innovation & Trend Integration: Stay up to date with the latest design trends, tools, and technologies, incorporating them into creative processes and advocating for new approaches.
• Collaboration & Feedback Integration: Work effectively within the design team and across departments, responding to feedback productively and iterating designs based on evolving project needs.

Key Skills & Experience:

• A strong portfolio that showcases a diverse range of work across both branding and digital design.
• A strong understanding of typography, colour, iconography and art direction – bringing all of these together into brand identities and digital experiences.
• A passion for branding and a desire to stay up to date with trends, exploring how design can be used to connect brands with audiences in engaging ways.
• High level of skill in design programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma)
• After Effects and motion design skills are a bonus
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both clients and team members.
• Versatile in your creative approach, constantly exploring new ideas and striving to create unique and memorable experiences.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working model 
• Freedom to move around and work from any Fora in UK
• Genuinely flexible working hours (9-10am – 5/6pm)
• Dog friendly office spaces 
• Day off on your birthday
• Free gym membership 
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Regular team socials, from cinema outings to supper clubs and seasonal parties
• Christmas to New Year studio shutdown

Every role at Ignite comes with 20 days paid holiday plus bank holidays and pension scheme.