Junior Creative

Job Description

The Role

We’re looking for a passionate and talented Junior Creative to join our brilliant Marketing team at Not On The High Street for a 6 month fixed-term contract.
You’ll be ambitious and organised with a contagious enthusiasm for design and creativity. You'll be able to help brainstorm creative and design ideas and then bring them to life across a range of digital channels (social media, Youtube, email/CRM, site/app). Reporting to the Creative Manager, you’ll work on projects from initial concept to final execution, ensuring attention to detail.
This position requires a basic understanding of design and creativity for digital marketing, including mobile-first design principles. It’s an excellent chance to enhance your digital graphic design, motion and art direction skills in a practical setting, benefiting from guidance and mentorship from experienced team members. You will report to the Creative Manager and collaborate closely with creatives, copywriters, producers, and specialists from Marketing, Commercial, and Product teams to infuse creativity into the entire customer journey.
We’re looking for someone who loves retail, collaboration and innovation. You may be a recent graduate or have a year or two of experience under your belt already. We’re open to candidates from both in-house and agency environments.

Accountabilities

• Create designs and creative ideas in response to briefs and assist the team in executing through to delivery.
• Design to our brand guidelines, ensuring visual consistency of our identity across customer touchpoints.
• Support the Creative Manager in the planning and execution of our creative shoots; creating both images and video content for our campaigns.
• Collaborate with our copy, production, commercial and product teams to create exciting new design ideas and content for our social channels, CRM programme, website and app.
• Create design assets for campaigns, both in static and motion digital formats.
• Confidently share your creative ideas and design rationale with the team.
• Proactively identify creative ideas to drive trade across our customer journey.
• Keep up to date with creative and design industry trends, standards, innovation and best-practice.

What you’ll do:

• Create designs and creative ideas in response to briefs and assist the team in executing through to delivery.
• Design to our brand guidelines, ensuring visual consistency of our identity across customer touch points.
• Support the Creative Manager in the planning and execution of our creative shoots; creating both images and video content for our campaigns.
• Collaborate with our copy, production, commercial and product teams to create exciting new design ideas and content for our social channels, CRM programme, website and app.
• Create design assets for campaigns, both in static and motion digital formats.
• Confidently share your creative ideas and design rationale with the team.
• Proactively identify creative ideas to drive trade across our customer journey.
• Keep up to date with creative and design industry trends, standards, innovation and best-practice.

Some key skills and experience you’ll need...

Who you are:

• A hybrid creative, interested in both design and art direction with a great portfolio of ideas and executions across a range of digital channels.
• Organised, ambitious with natural creative flair and an eagerness to learn; looking for a collaborative, creative environment to develop your skills and learn from others.
• Passionate about small businesses and the creative community behind them.

Technical skills:

• Good creative technical skills; you’ll have a developing understanding of Figma, the Adobe creative suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro).
• Able to create design assets in both static and motion.
• Confident in using the Google Suite (Gmail, Slides, Docs, Drive).

Human skills:

• Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Creative thinker able to generate innovative ideas and are naturally positive.
• Strategic thinker with problem-solving skills.
• Great team player, supportive and empathetic.
• Naturally motivated to share creativity and brimming with ideas, always there to take part.

Don’t meet every single requirement? No problem. Your strengths, passion & fresh perspective could be just what we’re looking for - so we encourage you to apply!

What we offer

Our perksIt's super important to us to make sure everyone feels safe and looked-after, which is why we've got a wide range of benefits in place. From supporting you and your loved ones with healthcare to cheeky 'just because' gifts, we're here for you.

We've got a ton of good stuff for everyone - like private medical insurance, a health cash plan, an electric vehicle scheme, mental health platform access, cycle to work scheme, and a 20% discount on our website. To find out more about what we offer, have a look here. We've also worked very hard to come up with a set of policies to support our people in any situation- like medicalised leave, menstrual leave, and primary carer leave.
Full-time NOTHS-ers get 25 days of holidays each year (plus bank hols!), as well as having the opportunity to work from anywhere for two calendar months a year. Did someone say beach holiday?

How we workHere at NOTHS, we embrace a remote-first approach to work, recognising the value of flexibility and the diverse talents that remote teams bring to the table. Our remote work culture is designed to empower our employees, foster collaboration, and create a community that transcends physical boundaries.

Under this framework, all of us operate remotely, convening as teams at regular intervals that suit each team best. These gatherings serve various purposes, including ideation sessions, hackathons, or simply fostering valuable face-to-face interactions.

Every quarter, we hold a Get Together and the whole company meets for a fun-filled day (with no shortage of food!) with some special guests... our small brand Partners!
Want to find out more? Take a look here.

Diversity, Equity, & InclusionDEI is really important to us and that’s why everyone’s welcome at Not On The High Street – whoever they are, whatever their background.

We are committed to embracing and encouraging our employees’ uniquenesses- whether this is in age, people with disabilities, ethnicity, family structures, gender, LGBTQ+ identity, lower income backgrounds, race, religion, the intersectionality or all/any of these and other aspects making us who we are. We take pride in treating all of our employees fairly and we want our people to feel respected, valued and recognised within the workplace. As part of your application, you’ll be asked to complete an optional demographic survey to help us learn more about who wants to work with us. Responses will only be used to help us figure out how to make our team even more inclusive and attract more brilliant people to join us!

We'll also ask whether you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to the interview process should you need them and you can answer this question should you choose to in the application phase. Apply to join Team NOTHS!Our recruitment processes are fully remote, taking advantage of the wonders of modern-day technology. We’d love to hear more about you, your experience and why you want to join our team. Good luck!