Designer

MarketYU is partnering with a well-established, independent creative agency to find a Designer to join their studio. With decades of experience and a team of around 50, they create commercially effective, creatively sharp work for some of the UK's best-known brands across both consumer and B2B sectors. It's a collaborative, people-first agency where everyone has a genuine say in where the business goes next — and where good ideas are expected to deliver real results for clients.

This is a great opportunity for a designer who animates — someone with solid agency or studio experience who's ready to step up and take real ownership of projects. You'll work across brand, print and motion: from logos and brochures to storyboards and design-led animation where type and messaging do the heavy lifting on screen. You'll join a small, busy in-house studio, working closely with the agency's Head of Creative and the wider creative team to deliver work for a varied client base.

What you'll be doing:

• Designing logos and brand identities, from first concepts through to finished assets and roll-out
• Creating brochures and layouts for print and digital, with a sharp eye for hierarchy and type
• Producing design-led animation — bringing messaging, typography and brand assets to life on screen
• Developing storyboards that sell an idea to clients before it moves into production
• Art directing on photoshoots, making sure what's captured works for the final design
• Picking up live client projects and keeping them moving, working to timelines across a busy studio schedule
• Working closely with account, strategy and creative colleagues to turn briefs into work that's both creative and commercially effective
• Exploring new AI tools across design, video and animation, and helping keep the studio's skills current

What we're looking for:

• Proven experience as a designer within a creative, design or marketing agency or studio, and ready to step up to mid-weight (or already there)
• Strong graphic design skills across branding, layout and typography — this is a design role first
• Confident animation skills, with type and messaging at the heart of your motion work — this one isn't a bonus, it's essential
• Strong command of Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and After Effects
• A portfolio that shows both design and animation work
• Energy and ambition — a doer who wants to progress, with an eye on art direction in the future
• Curiosity about AI and new tools, and how they can push design, video and animation forward
• A positive, collaborative attitude — we're a small team, so you'll work well with others and add to the studio culture
• Strong attention to detail

This role is being managed exclusively by MarketYU. To find out more or to apply, please get in touch with Jack Trimble at [email protected].

Pay: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person