Upper Middleweight / Senior Designer (maternity cover)

We’re &Smith, and we’re on the lookout for a super talented designer to join our team. This is a 12-month maternity cover role, London-based. Right now, we’re a creative team of 8, working mostly remotely, with regular in-person meet-ups in London.

About &Smith

Every day we eat, drink and sleep with brands all over the world. Whether they’re a brand that needs creating, or a brand that needs more creativity, we’re always asking ourselves – ‘What if?’ What if there’s a stone unturned? What if there’s more magic and less logic? What if the ordinary could be extraordinary? What if we could work with you?

Some detail

• Eating. Drinking. Sleeping. Branding. That’s our thing. We need you to have strong experience in our specialist areas and love them as much as we do.
• As you’ll be covering a senior member of our team, we’re looking for someone with at least 8 years' experience in the industry.
• The role sits in between our Creative Partners (Owners) and our Middleweight/Junior designers. This means you'll be happy working collaboratively under a Partner’s direction, but you'll also need to lead projects and direct junior team members at times.
• Creativity and ideas are a big part of what we do and need to be a big part of your portfolio too. We want to see how you can bring brands and experiences to life, then make people fall in love with them.
• You’ll need to show you have a high level of experience across all our day-to-day activities. That's usually a mix of branding concepts and strategy, visual identity, packaging, experience ideas, print and digital design implementation, web design, photoshoots and brand film.
• On the practical side, it’s important that you have experience in managing clients and projects from start to finish. You’ll be used to working on and managing multiple projects at the same time, be able to present confidently, and structure/write design presentations. You’ll also be organised enough to support the team in project admin and be used to day-to-day client contact.
• You’ll need to know Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, XD and Photoshop to a very high level. Although we don’t code in-house, it’s important to understand how developers bring our web designs to life. We’d also love you to know how to make things move (animation or motion design), but it is not essential.
• As a big part of our work is in travel and hospitality, we have a lot of clients dotted across the UK, Europe and further afield. With work varying from discovery trips to photoshoots, we’d need you to be up for travelling and the occasional night away.

A few perks

• Remote working
• Flexitime hours
• Wellness afternoons
• Birthdays off
• New business bonus
• Personal development budget
• 1% of our working days in a year to nonprofits, social enterprises and small businesses

Some more about &Smith

&Smith is a creative agency where ideas – really good ideas – are available to all.

Since forming in 2007, &Smith have earned their stripes as hotel, food and drink specialists. Led by Creative Partners and owners Rachel Smith and Dan Bernstein, they have a reputation for pushing the creative boundaries within the sector and have quickly become one of the most highly respected and awarded agencies in the UK.

From their London studio, they have been fortunate to work with a number of high-profile global brands. Notable names include Liberty London, Dishoom, Kimpton Restaurants & Hotels, Rick Stein, Marks & Spencer, Shake Shack, Carlton Cannes, InterContinental Hotel Group, Four Seasons, Rosa’s Thai, Dorchester Collection, Wagamama and Manchester City Football Club.

&Smith’s work has been widely published in books and the international design press. They have received awards from D&AD, European Design Awards, The Brand Impact Awards, ADC Annual Awards, Restaurant and Bar Design Awards, Food and Beverage Design Awards, Transform Awards, Creative Review, Pentawards, The Dieline and Communication Arts, to name but a few.

Good Ideas

We take every chance we can get to use our creative chops for good. We’re B-Corp certified, so whether we’re helping a restaurant highlight its sustainable sourcing or a hotel celebrate its local community, we make sure it’s done in a way that makes the impact hit home (and heart). And when we say good ideas are available to all – we mean it. Every year we work pro bono with a charity or social enterprise that could benefit from great creative.