Digital Designer

At Armadillo, we work with some of the world’s biggest brands, including Disney, Huel, Nationwide, P&O Cruises and Cunard Cruises, to produce beautifully creative and effective CRM campaigns.

We believe in the long-term success that comes from always putting the best interests of our clients and the well-being and progression of our staff at the heart of everything we do. We have ambitious plans to grow the agency. Our aim is to become the UK’s most recommended CRM agency: the one everyone wants to work with or for.

We are now on the lookout for a Digital Designer to join our Creative team working across multiple client accounts. So, think you can help us?

We love working with passionate and enthusiastic people, and that’s what we’re looking for in our next Digital Designer. As part of the role you would work on:

• Understanding how brands behave, learning guidelines inside out and implementing them, or suggesting the evolution of guidelines

• Developing your design skills in layout, typography and image creation/manipulation (vector-based illustrations or photographic manipulation), with training and feedback available to strengthen your skills

• Creating innovative and engaging responsive design solutions for all devices that demonstrate an understanding of the content hierarchy by adapting where required for different formats

• Creating innovative, clear and engaging UI elements as well as measurable interactivity

• Bringing content to life with animations, by creating clear storyboards and generating good quality animated content

• Demonstrating how a user will move through communications (within and between campaigns), whether single or multiple emails, web, push, and app using wireframes or low-fi designs with support from senior team members if required

• Supporting the creation of concepts in collaboration with others that aim to meet project performance goals

• Creating presentation documents with a helpful order, engaging layout and useful annotations for work that is sent to clients and accompanied by clear verbal narration when in person

At Armadillo, we are a collaborative team, so you will also need to work closely with other employees in various departments throughout the agency, maintaining excellent working relationships with colleagues at all levels. We are looking for a strong communicator who will be able to effectively communicate project status updates and support in knowledge sharing with within your discipline and with other departments throughout the agency.

A Digital Designer at Armadillo should be ambitious, motivated and driven, and constantly looking to improve the quality of their work - does that sound like you?

Some more practical skills we also look for here are:

• Good working experience of using Figma, the Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD and After Effects

• Skills in using Microsoft (Word, PPT & Excel), Teams and Outlook

• Understanding of Wrike or other project management tools is useful

As well as this, it’d be beneficial for you to understand the basics of CRM, including some of the channels used (email, web, push & app) and the principles behind CRM such as affinity, loyalty, and the importance of handling customer data.

At Armadillo, we truly appreciate the hard work & dedication of our employees, and so we offer the following benefits to all Armadillos:

• Hybrid working environment – 3 days in our central Bristol office / 2 days remote

• 25 days’ annual leave plus a day off on your birthday, increasing by 1 day per annum at each year anniversary up to 30 days, plus bank holidays

• Summer and Christmas hours – finish 2.5 hours early one Friday per month in June, July, August and December

• Contributory company pension 4% employee 3% employer of total pay through salary sacrifice, escalating 1% each year following your 2nd anniversary at Armadillo, up to 8% employer contribution

• Bupa dental care & Vitality health insurance

• Lots of social events, including Summer and Christmas parties

• Cycle to work scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme offered by Assured Health

• IPA Membership & Bristol Creative Industries Membership

We are also committed to creative a diverse workforce and environment, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at Armadillo, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origins, genetics, disability or age.