Digital Designer (12 Month Maternity Cover)

(This is a hybrid role, and it requires travel to our Cardiff office at least twice a week)

The Creative Content hub is responsible for Admiral Group UK insurance products across various brands. And now, we’re looking for a talented Digital Designer to join the team.

You’ll be working on brand, advertising, and product team projects. You’ll be expected to bring your insight, empathy, and understanding of the customer experience to a variety of creative briefs.

Creativity and attention to detail is key

A deep knowledge of Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, and other industry-leading creative tools is important. You will be working alongside other designers on a range of tasks including:

• Responsive web layouts
• Campaign and product landing pages
• Email design
• Wireframing and prototyping with Figma
• Graphic and information design
• Rich-media web advertising
• Social media video
• UI/UX design

We’re looking for exceptional

The right candidate will thrive while working under their own initiative or with the support of the Creative team. You’ll produce concepts, designs, illustrations, and wireframes for marketing and advertising campaigns. You’ll create user journeys that engage and improve the Admiral customer experience.

Are you an excellent communicator? Do you relish working at the junction of visual design and creative copywriting? Do you possess outstanding composition and layout skills? Do you have an insatiable need to simplify complex problems, and an enthusiasm for creating compelling user experiences?

You could be who we’re looking for.

People who like what they do, do it better.

The Admiral culture is open, honest, and focused on four pillars: communication, equality, recognition, and fun. We’re proud of a culture that ensures a safe, inclusive, and diverse workplace where people can express themselves and thrive.

Taking responsibility

Reporting to the Creative Director, you will work closely with stakeholders from across the business. Being comfortable with the stewardship and management of your own tasks will provide opportunities to develop and adopt more responsibility.

Tasks will include:

• Creating compelling responsive web layouts.
• Crafting content to promote our brands and products.
• Creating user-centric customer experiences.
• Creating original graphic designs (info-graphs, images, icons, and illustrations).
• Adhering to brand standards for typography, colour, tone of voice, and imagery.

Essential skills and experience

• Graphic design.
• UI and UX design.
• Principles of accessibility design.
• Responsive web design.
• Figma, Affinity Designer, Illustrator, Adobe CC Suite, After Effects.
• Understanding of HTML and CSS.
• Animation and video.

Your education

• A degree-level creative design qualification is a must-have.

Your portfolio

We would like to discuss your portfolio. It should demonstrate an understanding of end-to-end design, from brief to execution. And seasoned with real-world experience.

We’d love to see exciting, contemporary, creative design solutions with a flair for typography, composition, illustration and information design.

An ideal candidate has a strong interest in video and motion design. We would love to welcome someone to our team who understands the intricacies of video creation programmes like After Effects and Premier Pro. If you can showcase how you approach a video project, that would sweeten the deal.

Working hours

• 37.5 hours a week.
• Hybrid working with 2 days in our Cardiff office (Tuesday and Thursday).

Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.

Admiral, Where You Can Be You 

At Admiral you’re accepted, supported and empowered to be you. Because you’re brilliant. 

We’re proud of our people-centric culture which has led us to being recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re committed to ensuring that at Admiral, progression is not slowed or haltered by barriers related to protected characteristics. 

Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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