Job Description
Enjoy the variety of coming up with creative ideas one day, crafting the little details the next? Working on websites and finding opportunities to create those little magical moments of interactive joy, along with creating beautiful brands, ads and print collateral?
If this sounds good to you then send your CV, portfolio, and a short summary of why you’re perfect for the role to [email protected].
No recruitment agencies please.
Role Overview:
As a Designer at Pretty Pragmatic, you’ll work closely with the Creative Lead and Senior Designer, along with the wider agency team, to develop captivating creative work for clients who really appreciate what we do for them.
The main elements of the role are:
- Website design – creating websites that really stand out, working with our Creative Developer, UX experts and Creative Technology Director along with the wider PP team to take wireframes and bring them to life in exciting ways.
- Campaign creation – developing ads and campaign assets for marketing activity – from social ads to print collateral.
- Concepting & ideas – coming up with fresh and interesting ideas for new marketing activity – be it ads, interfaces, or brand identities.
- Brand development – from creating brand identities, to developing existing brands, from logo ideation through to building out assets and guidelines.
- Moments of motion – occasionally you’ll also work with motion to create animated elements and editing together video content. This isn’t a huge part of the role, but it’s good to have some experience and enjoy this too.
Who we’re looking for:
You’ll have experience working in a design role within an agency or in-house marketing department.
Particular skills you’ll have:
- Good working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign
- Hands-on experience with Figma
- Experience designing websites from wireframes
- Experience working with brand guidelines
Nice to haves:
- Experience with concepting, scamps, and developing creative ideas
- Using After Effects
Along with that, there’s a few key traits that will make you the perfect fit:
- A lover of ideas – you’ll enjoy coming up with ideas, from big brand & campaign thinking to clever little digital interactions.
- A creative crafter – you’ll be able to critique and craft your work to take it up a notch.
- A devil in the detail – you like to make sure the details of the design to do the idea justice.
- A confident communicator – you’ll be comfortable sharing your ideas and building them with the creative team.
- A fun lover – we’re here to enjoy what we do and want you to add to the fun too.
Working at Pretty Pragmatic:
So that’s enough about you, what about us?
We’re Pretty Pragmatic. The marketing agency combining creative flair with deep digital know-how, and the people delivering sensational strategies that just make sense.
We make brands perform, setting the stage for our clients to win over their audiences with charismatic content, outstanding sites, beautiful brands, compelling campaigns, and super search visibility.
We work a lot with restaurants, pubs, hotels, and event venues – generally, you’ll work a lot with hospitality, food and drink brands – but we also have a range of clients in other industries to mix it up a bit.
We have four internal principles for how we work:
- Basics, Then Brilliance – we do the basics well. Then find ways to go beyond.
- Build Us Up – We’re team players, sharing our skills, collabing and backing each other.
- Drive It Forward – we’re proactive with ideas, action, and communication.
- Pride Over Profit – We have passion for the work we create and the results we deliver.
Along with this, we offer 25 days holiday and your birthday off – as we all need to enjoy some R&R! You’ll also gain an extra day of holiday for each year of tenure at PP, up to an additional 4 days.
We also have an annual £500 training allowance per person for your development to make sure you’re continually progressing, insightful masterclasses to share knowledge across the teams, ‘Healthy Habits’ wellness allowance, pension, Headspace subscription, a week each year where you can ‘work from anywhere’, monthly Players’ Player awards, increasing holidays with tenure, Thursday pastries from Harts (plus healthy alternatives) and a range of other PP perks.
We’re based in Bristol and looking for someone who will be able to work from our lovely studio space in The Paintworks at least three days a week.
If you’re excited about this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you, email [email protected] with your CV and we’ll be in touch.