Job Description
We’re looking for a talented, enthusiastic and hard-working person to join the Design and Production Team at one of the UK’s most innovative and fast-growing investment platforms.
Based in our fantastic offices in Salford Quays – but still enjoying the flexibility of hybrid working – you’ll provide essential support to the Marketing Team and wider business as we work to raise the profile of our investment platforms.
Reporting to the Senior Graphic Designer (Team Leader), this is a mid-level role, with opportunities to progress in a company that’s officially certified as a top ten Best Workplace by Great Place to Work (GPTW) – the global authority on workplace culture.
What does the job involve?
- Responding to creative briefs for our websites, emails, social media posts and advertising campaigns, ensuring alignment to our brand identity guidelines.
- Preparing artwork to print and web standard.
- Helping to create animations and video edits.
- Reviewing and editing artwork in a fast-paced environment to ensure information is complete and accurate.
- Working with a wide range of media – including photography, type, illustration, animation and video footage – and flexing ideas across different static and animated channels.
- Contributing to team meetings for content, brand initiatives and campaigns.
- Confidently presenting new creative ideas and drafting supporting copy.
- Ensuring content used across creative work is accurate, up to date and consistent.
- Supporting the development and delivery of campaign strategies.
- Conducting research to support the development of ongoing creative work.
- Helping to prepare and distribute marketing materials and literature.
- Embedding AJ Bell’s guiding principles and corporate guidelines in your way of
What you'll bring:
- Proven experience in graphic design.
- Solid experience of using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop (experience in After Effects and Premiere Pro is a bonus).
- Degree-level (or equivalent) professional qualification in graphic design.
- A working knowledge of MS Office – especially PowerPoint.
- Ability to create visually compelling designs for digital, print, and multimedia projects (including websites, brochures, advertisements, social media posts, banners, infographics and presentations).
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates ability across a variety of mediums and projects.
- An understanding of print and web creatives.
- A willingness to learn and develop, within a collaborative team environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- A highly organised approach, with strong attention to detail.
About us:
AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 593,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £90.4 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.
Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.
Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2024 named a Great Place to Work®.
Our perks and benefits
- Competitive starting salary
- Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service and a holiday buy and sell scheme
- A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual free share awards scheme
- Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
- Health Cash Plan – provided by SimplyHealth
- Private healthcare scheme and dental plan
- Free on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Bike loan scheme
- Sick pay+ pledge
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
- Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay
- Loans for travel season tickets
- Death in service scheme
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
- Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
- Parking at Exchange Quay (subject to availability)
- Ongoing technical training
- Professional qualification support
- Talent development programmes
- Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
- Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
Hybrid working
At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
