Comms Creative Designer

FreeAgent 🚀

FreeAgent aims to remove the stress and pain of dealing with business finances. From the very beginning in 2007, our aim was to create a product that would make an impact and improve the lives of micro-businesses in the UK. Now FreeAgent is one of the UK's most popular online accounting software providers, with over 125,000 customers.

Not to blow our own horn … but Accounting WEB even named FreeAgent the top bookkeeping product of 2020 and 2021. And in 2021 our mobile app was also voted ‘Client App of the Year’ by ICB LUCA. The list could go on!

It’s not just our customers who love us, our employees do too ⭐

Find out more on Glassdoor.

We believe in the power of a collaborative, high-performing, and diverse team. We’d love you to join us on our journey.

Make a difference 💫

We're on the lookout for a Designer to join our growing Communications Design team. The team works across the business to create and deliver a range of integrated digital marketing campaigns for the FreeAgent brand. They are responsible for ensuring all the brilliant products, features, and content we create are seen, heard, and talked about.

We are seeking someone who loves design as much as we do. This is an opportunity to help us build the future of our brand and join a talented team of art directors, designers and writers at a company with an enviable culture. As a brand we’ve done a lot already and have no plans of slowing down! Join us and put your creativity to work

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the production of high-quality creative design work for advertising campaigns and projects, including creating pixel-perfect digital advertising from the pitch stage through to final delivery and launch. This includes campaign landing pages, static and animated banners, responsive ads, print and social media channels.
  
• Take creative briefs for campaigns and design impactful digital advertising concepts across mobile and web for a diverse range of product features and audience needs
• Deliver your work by exploring challenges and opportunities, generating ideas that can help us build our brand profile and drive acquisition.
• Participate and contribute to a vibrant design community at FreeAgent
• Switch between digital (mobile and web) and sometimes print design
• Work with creative writers on integrated brand and tactical campaigns delivered through multiple channels. You will be interested in words, what they can do, and how they can help your work be more effective.
• Play an active role in the comms design team, bringing your curiosity and inventiveness with you every day.

Ideally you'll:

• have demonstrable experience working on integrated brand campaigns across multiple channels. You have delivered some stand-out work already but you want to do more.
  
• be comfortable using Adobe Suite programmes and other creative software such as Figma
• be fascinated by design, marketing and brand communications and the channels they use.
• want to do meaningful, ethical, purpose-driven projects: FreeAgent exists to help small businesses be happier and more successful
• ensure strong working relationships with your colleagues across the business
• have great communication and collaboration skills. You'll enjoy taking ownership and responsibility for your work.
• share a body of work which aligns with the requirements of the role we have advertised.

Extra points for:

• Experience using Celtra
• Knowledge of HTML
• Detailed understanding of UX/UI principles
• Working knowledge of Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop and Illustrator)

What we can offer you

• The chance to work on memorable projects as part of an experienced and creatively talented team.
  
• We’ll do everything possible to help you achieve your overall career goals. You’ll have your own training and development budget and during your time with us, you’ll get: Regular one-to-one meetings with your manager. Your own Personal Development Plan (PDP) - a road map that will guide you on your career progress.

Perks 🎁

Annual salary £30,000 - £47,000 per annum depending on experience. We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, including (but not limited to!) the following:

• 33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you're with us)
• Flexible/hybrid working
• Private health care
• Life assurance
• 5% matched pension contributions
• Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 7 additional days off!)
• Buy-as-you-earn share schemes
• Sabbatical leave (unpaid)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellness webinars
• Focused learning time and learning budgets
• Volunteering day

Our work life 👩🏽‍💻

We believe in a strong work-life balance, we don’t work long hours (35 hour working week), and we have a fabulous Edinburgh HQ expertly designed for collaboration including high-quality A/V equipment to provide a great experience for distributed teams.

At FreeAgent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out!

This is a permanent, full-time role (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm). This role will be based in our Edinburgh office, however, there will be an opportunity to adopt hybrid working, working under an agreed pattern from both the office and at home each week. Working from home is second nature to us as we have been championing remote working for 14 years.

How to apply ✍

We hire smart, talented people (like you!) to make FreeAgent even better.

Our application process is simple; just upload your CV and cover letter along with your work case studies (more on this below).

Work Case Studies

As part of the application, we ask you to share a case study of your work with us. This is one of the most important parts of the application. It allows us to understand not just your technical skills but also the creative process behind your work.

In case it is helpful, we find well structured case studies outline the following:

• Objectives: What was the project trying to achieve? What was the problem you were trying to solve and the outcome that you set out to achieve.
• Key results: What metrics did you use to measure the success of the project
• Process: What methodology did you use to solve the problem - from discovery to delivery
• Insights: What insights or user behaviours informed your creative approach
• Learning: What did you learn along the way?

Our selection process involves:

• A phone call with a member of our Talent Team
• A video interview
• A final interview incorporating a practical exercise and presentation

We work hard to make the process as straightforward, transparent and enjoyable as possible.

FreeAgent is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from people with varied backgrounds and perspectives. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, family or parental status.

Want to find out more? Email any queries to [email protected]