KIDLY - Mid-weight Freelance Graphic Designer (Temp)

Graphic Designer is needed in Watford, United Kingdom.

Client: KIDLY

Location: Watford, UK

Contract: No Job Type Listed

Job Description

We’re searching for an experienced (1-3 years) freelance graphic designer to assist our senior graphic designer on a weekly and adhoc basis. Ideally, you’ll be hard-working, self-motivated and ready to apply your creative skills to any challenge. With sound knowledge of design software, principles and trends. We’d need someone that can absorb our brand identities and confidently apply them to weekly projects, while offering fresh ideas. Experience in the retail sector is preferred, but not essential. You’ll need to have an up-to-date portfolio that clearly demonstrates a passion for clean design and problem-solving. We’re looking for someone who’s available now and there is potential for this to become a long-term contract, if you’re a good fit. Please share a link to your portfolio in your application, or send it directly to ***. Unfortunately, applications without a portfolio won’t be considered.

Requirements

• 1-3 years experience working as a digital Graphic Designer in the Retail or e-commerce sector
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design (or similar subject)
• A stand-out portfolio showing thoughtful process and effective, clean design solutions
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator) and Sketch or Figma
• Excellent visual communication skills – a demonstrable understanding of layout, typography, and design principles
• A clear understanding of how to apply brand guidelines & design systems
• A passion for colour and perfecting the finer details
• Excellent time management and organisation skills – the ability to meet strict deadlines and multi-task where needed
• Strong written and verbal communication
• A desire to learn – open to constructive feedback and improving relevant skills
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS
• Experience with an email service provider (e.g. Mailchimp, Ometria, Klaviyo)

Responsibilities

• Building weekly broadcast & automated emails using templates in our ESP and Sketch, working your way up to building additional marketing emails from scratch
• Creating web assets for KIDLY & its brands (e.g. site banners, web page imagery, size guides)
• Developing consistent cross-platform promotional assets for email, web & social media
• Understanding and upholding the distinct brand identities for KIDLY and KIDLY Label
• File management, including organising our company-wide image bank

About KIDLY

We’re a modern retailer of stylish and sustainable things for 0-5s. We make and sell our own brand, KIDLY Label, alongside a selection of third party brands that complement it. Open for business since May 2016, our ambition is to be the modern shopper’s store of choice for the 0-5s in their lives. We’ll do this by upholding the values that we’ve crafted over the last seven years. Which are:

• Making shopping for kids as enjoyable as shopping for yourself.
• Always being helpful and always being here to help, no matter what.
• Continuously listening to our customers and acting on what they say.
• Selling only quality, design-led & genuinely useful things.
• Knowing we’re all in it together. Being nice to customers, suppliers and each other and championing equality, inclusion and tolerance at every opportunity.
• Always backing up our choices with parent feedback and opinion.
• Taking responsibility by striving to lessen the impact we have on the environment.

The Office

KIDLY HQ is in Leavesden, near Watford, and we share it with ASOS. It is a wonderful environment, newly refurbished, with loads of space and light, an on-site coffee shop and canteen and a large (free) gym. There’s also a free shuttle bus to and from Watford Junction station, morning and afternoon.

Salary and Hours

The role is freelance, 1-2 days per week (days to be decided with candidate) at our KIDLY HQ in Watford.

Additional Information

The KIDLY culture is one of positivity, helpfulness, and mutual respect. Anyone that joins us will share these qualities, have a sense of humour, but also be a driven professional. We have lots to do and, although we enjoy each other’s company and have fun, we all know why we’re here and are driven to achieve those goals. It also helps here if you love customers and retail. Most of us are our own customers, in that we either have young kids, or we’re proud aunts and uncles. We also love e-commerce, all the data it produces, and all the fun you can have trading and interacting with customers in real-time. This is something you can learn to love, if retail is not your natural habitat, as long as you have a passion for shopping, have a bit of a geeky side, and like people!