Junior UX/UI Designer

Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Brunswick is a special kind of advisory firm. We advise the world’s leading companies on how to navigate the critical issues they face and engage with their most important stakeholders.

As a Junior User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) Designer you will have the opportunity to work with some of the world’s largest companies, helping them solve their biggest problems.

We pride ourselves in delivering high calibre design work, so you will get the opportunity to collaborate with a wide variety of people across the firm and across our global client base. Importantly, you’ll be able to hone your UX and UI skills to a high professional level – whether these skills are steeped in every aspect of UX research and strategy, or all the way to working with our tech team to bring your design vision to life. You’ll also have an award-winning Digital Creative Director to support and guide you, and help take your skills to the next level. The ambition will be for you to be running your own UX or UI projects within a year.

If you’re an ambitious self-starter, this job is definitely for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct competitor and lateral research to guide design decisions.
• Support on discovery and workshop sessions and preparing materials.
• Analyze and learn from data and user research to inform design choices.
• Create wireframes and sitemaps for websites.
• Design UI interfaces, which push both visual creativity and follow a best practice approach.
• Create and maintain design documentation; style guides and design systems.
• Create and curate content assets such as icons, photography, illustrations and implement brand graphics.
• Suggest and implement improvements to ongoing campaign projects.
• Work alongside cross-functional teams, willing to learn and collaborate and be a source of energy.

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies

We’re looking for a thoughtful, creative and ambitious Junior UX/UI designer with anything between one to three years of agency experience.

If most of these criteria fit you, we’d love a chat:

• Collaborative: At the core of our culture, we are a relationship-based business. We want someone who thrives whilst working with others; both in-person and virtual.
• Design: A problem-solving creative, with a portfolio demonstrating key UX deliverables; from gathering research and insights, to generating user stories, sitemaps and wireframes etc.
• Tools: We use Figma to design and Jira and Confluence to manage, so you’ll need to have experience of using these too.
• Communication: Have excellent communication skills, to clearly explain your thought process, confidence to raise issues in team stand-ups and use company channels (email, chat and arranging meetings) to drive projects forward.
• Attention to detail: We’re looking for a naturally organized individual, that is methodical in their process to delivering work, ensuring details are captured when given feedback.
• Natural Curiosity: Someone who is keen to learn and to soak up all the knowledge and experience across our firm.

In addition to life assurance, group income protection, and employer pension contribution, we offer:

• Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days’ annual leave, excluding bank holidays (plus your Birthday off)
• Private medical cover and employee assistance programme
• Family-friendly policies and tax-free childcare
• Complimentary artisan coffee, tea and snacks, served by our own barista
• Daily breakfast in the café
• Lunch & Learn training sessions
• Cycle 2 Work scheme and season ticket loans
• Flexible working, including support with your home working environment
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities
• A comprehensive training and development curriculum