Design Jobs Board

We’re looking for a design-obsessed Creative Manager for a 12 month maternity cover contract to oversee the design output across the business. You’ll be responsible for owning our visual identity, creating an efficient process for the design workflow and delivering high-quality assets for all marketing channels. You’ll understand the importance of brand equity and have a razor-sharp focus and impeccable eye for detail to produce high-quality creative. Reporting into the Head of Brand & Content, you’ll manage a team of 4 in-house graphic designers.

What you will be doing:

• Be the creative lead: Act as the point of contact for design queries across business and build relationships with key stakeholders.
• Own the Strategy: Implement and develop the visual identity strategy in line with the brand strategy.
• Mentor the team: As an inspiring Creative Manager, you’ll ensure your team is supported and encouraged to contribute their best self, fostering a continuous learning environment.
• Keep things on brand: You will review all designs created by the team and provide feedback.
• Reporting to the Head of Brand and Content, you will work cross-functionally to execute our brand strategy and lead the strategy to build a best-in-class platform.
• Collaboration: You will work closely with the marketing and private label teams to deliver assets that support their needs, continuously communicating on the status of project deadlines and informing of re-prioritisation where necessary.
• Lead and create photography briefs: for both our in house photographers and external photographers where necessary.
• Keep your finger on the pulse: You will be in the know of new design trends and retail themes, sparking new creative ideas for promotions and campaigns to make sure we are staying up to date.

Who you are:

• You have strong experience working as a Graphic Designer preferably with a Bachelor’s degree in Graphics Design, Visual Arts or relevant field.
• Comfortable designing across print and digital.
• You will have a confident, bright personality – a real people person with high emotional intelligence to lead and inspire a talented team.
• You’re a creative problem solver – making sure we’re communicating the brand in the most effective way across various channels.
• You will have a great eye for combining colors, layout, and fonts to produce high-quality creative pieces.
• Excellent knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and a quick learner with new systems and processes.
• You will be a self-starter with a hands-on attitude, able to prioritise well in a fast-paced environment with quickly changing demands.
• We are a highly collaborative team and love to work together on conceptualising ideas, so good interpersonal skills are a must.
• You will have an exceptional eye for detail and high standards when it comes to your work.
• You’ll have a growth mindset and be truly flexible when priorities change and actively look to seek out feedback.
• We love to try new things, so you’ll be on the pulse of what’s trending within the market, acting quickly upon potentially engaging opportunities.
• Some experience of, or appetite for, crafting is always a benefit!

What we’re offering:

• Competitive salary to reflect your skills and experience.
• Great benefits including pension plan, private healthcare, health cash plan and some other great perks!
• 25 holiday days pro rata + a day off for your birthday.
• Smart colleagues and supportive team- you will join a fantastic team of really bright, motivated, and driven individuals who will support you at every stage of your journey.
• Working environment that values excellence.
• Central London Location – we’re passionate about flexibility and are following a hybrid-remote approach, working a combination of from home and at the office.
• This is a fixed term maternity cover contract for a 12 months duration.

About us:

At LoveCrafts we’re building online communities for crafters: homes for makers where they can find inspiration for their latest projects, learn new techniques, easily source all their supplies and share their creations with like-minded makers around the world.

Since launching in 2012, we’ve grown incredibly quickly. We’ve graduated from the Future Fifty, were 20th place on the FT’s list of fastest growing European companies, all thanks to the hard work of our team of smart, kind makers based in London, Kyiv and in the USA. We’ve been fuelled by investment from Europe’s leading venture capital firms; Balderton Capital (LoveFilm, The Hut) funded our Series A round, followed by Highland Europe (Photobox, WeTransfer) and most recently Scottish Equity Partners (Skyscanner, Matches Fashion).

We’re playing with the very best in web, mobile, social, commerce and media technology as we create the perfect digital business for all things craft related. Our team is filled with ambitious, curious, entrepreneurial and occasionally kooky makers. We hire and nurture inquisitive, creative minds looking to flourish in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Diversity is important at LoveCrafts. We aim to attract the widest range of talent into our business to enable us to create an inclusive working environment, and to reflect and understand our customers and their needs. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief. We aim to create a modern, flexible work environment that supports everyone to do their best work and therefore, we are open to having conversations about flexible working for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. We are committed to providing a working environment where everyone’s individuality and unique contributions are recognised, valued and respected and where all of our employees have equal opportunity to grow and attain their full potential.