Midweight Graphic Designer

The Fold is an award-winning womenswear brand with a mission to empower women to realise their ambitions. The brand creates beautiful, high quality collections for women to feel their confident best. The Fold has a wide reaching international audience and has dressed some of the world’s most influential female leaders and innovators.

Join The Fold Team

We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example – never compromising on our quality.

We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion across our business and within our teams. Creating equal opportunities for employees and applicants.

About the role:

Reporting into the Senior Graphic Designer, you will be working across all of The Fold’s design collateral from printed lookbooks and web page design to paid media advertising and direct mail.

Your responsibilities:

Design Development

• Developing design assets into rich, creative online and offline experiences across multiple touch-points.
• Continuously driving the brand’s creative output with innovative and effective design, inspiring the team with outside-of-the-box thinking and new ideas.
• Designing across day-to-day BAU briefs as well as special projects.
• Upholding a consistent and high standard of quality across all your work, always striving to learn and develop more effective techniques and efficient processes.

Conceptualisation

• Help generate ideas in order to make improvements to current systems and take a proactive approach in implementing those ideas.
• Working with a strategic mindset, keeping well informed in customer, creative and product trends to better inform your work and create effective results.
• Taking ownership of your own projects whilst supporting the other designers when needed, helping each other to develop skill sets within the team.

Branding

• Helping to evolve all aspects of the brand in line with the brand ethos.

Collaboration

• Understanding and working to company wide briefing processes and asset management, ensuring a good standard of filing and organisation is kept.
• Working with other teams across the business (marketing, ecomm, design, operations) to ensure your designs encompass all relevant business objectives when required.

Your skillset:

• Degree in BA Graphic Design
• Previous multimedia design experience in a similar business such as ecom or creative agency, preferably in fashion or luxury sector
• Strong portfolio showcasing a range of projects, from digital assets (social, email, ecomm, video editing, animation) to printed matter and store POS
• Passionate about graphic design, typography, colour and layout, staying up-to-date with best practices in the design field and finger on the pulse of aspirational brands
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, most importantly InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator
• Experience with Figma
• A strong eye for detail and pixel perfect designs
• A passionate approach to work- a humbitious, can-do attitude and open to feedback
• Ability to approach design challenges with creativity and an open mind, offering fresh solutions and taking initiative
• Ability to work efficiently and proactively with strong time management - managing multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative team-player- mentoring and guiding junior members of the team.
• Good communication skills- confident and articulate presentation skills and actively contributing to meetings and creative sessions.
• Self-motivated, conscientious and ambitious, constantly learning and developing your skills.
• Genuine personal interest in fashion, lifestyle and cultural trends with an eye for detail and style.

Benefits of working with The Fold:

• 25 days holidays in addition to the usual bank holidays
• Inspiring Q&A talks with leading professionals
• A uniform allowance
• A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price
• Bike to work scheme, save on the cost of bikes and equipment
• Pension scheme
• Regular team socials
• You can expect to enjoy complimentary coffee, fresh fruit and treats. Out of work we’ve enjoyed Secret Cinema, Crazy Golf, Escape Rooms, Ice skating as well as enjoying homemade cocktails and casual beers

Our Culture:

We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example – never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principles across the business:

• Be Humbitious: Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don’t be a diva.
• Wrap it up with a bow on it: Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.
• Be Empowered: Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results.
• Fold Gold Standard: Quality and professionalism, don’t just ‘let it go’, pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.
• Embrace, pace, progress and adventure: Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.

To apply for this role, please send your CV to careers@thefoldlondon.com. Due to the number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those that are successful to the next stage.