Job Description: Senior Designer

Chase Design Group is currently seeking 1-2 passionate and talented Senior Designers for the Bristol office. As part of the team, this person will be involved with all phases of work, including research, concept exploration, design development and finalization. They will be responsible for creating and executing high quality design concepts and maintaining brand continuity. We are looking for someone who has exceptional design skills, commitment to craft, and an eye for detail with experience in FMCG packaging, branding and identity.?

Responsibilities:

• Act as design guardian for clients’ brands ensuring colour, type and visual equities follow brand standards
• Create, organise, structure and present well-considered design solutions that helps to meet clients’ objectives?
• Deliver both strong ideas and a high level of craftsmanship across all elements of design
• Have a good understanding of the creative process from brief through production
• Organise and maintain design files and master assets as needed
• Maintain the agency’s standards of creative excellence, timeliness and profitability
• Support the team when managing external specialists e.g. illustrators, visualiser
• Help to maintain an atmosphere of inspiration and collaboration and, in time, help to mentor the junior members of the creative team

Our ideal candidates will:

• Have at least 5-6 years’ experience in FMCG packaging branding and identity, with a strong portfolio to match
• Bring big ideas and clear thinking to meet our clients challenges in a uniquely creative way
• Take pride in crafting the finest detail with evidence of exemplary typographic and image making skills
• Be able to talk passionately and knowledgeably about the work with an understanding of the business challenges that design can solve
• Be a self-starting, multifaceted designer who enjoys collaborating with colleagues and clients
• Hold a degree in graphic design or similar and has high-level skills in key Adobe software (Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator)?

Chase Design Group is a strategically driven global creative agency with offices in Bristol, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. Chase's work spans research, brand strategy, corporate identity, FMCG package design and retail/environmental design. Many of our projects focus on strategy and creative development and much of our work is focused on print. We are brand stewards for multiple global brands including Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo and Nestlé to name a few.

We believe the best creative happens in an environment that celebrates the open exchange of ideas. Our offices work together fluidly as a single entity, allowing us to leverage our best minds at key moments. This versatility allows us to take on diverse projects that challenge us creatively and keep our work exciting.

BENEFITS

We are committed to constantly seeking ways to ensure our team feels valued, motivated, and inspired in environments that are thriving, welcoming and fun. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer the following:

• Nourishment on tap: Beverages, snacks (Some healthy, some less-so) and beers on Friday
• Monthly team lunch and board games
• Personal development budget plus tickets to creative seminars
• Discretionary year-end bonus
• Workplace pension
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Short term disability coverage
• Eyecare vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• 20 days holiday + bank holidays and an (almost) guaranteed and minimum of 1 week off over Christmas shut-down period (no holiday days used)