Junior Digital Designer for ASOS

JUNIOR DESIGNER

The Location

NW1 - Camden

The Background

As the fastest growing online fashion retailer in the UK, ASOS.com is constantly striving to drive our business forward and be at the cutting edge of fashion, life and talent. With International expansion and constant UK growth, ASOS.com is evolving at a phenomenal rate. Therefore we are on the lookout for driven and entrepreneurial people to join our ever expanding and extremely exciting business. At the core of our business lies passion, for the industry, the company and the people. If you want to be part of the ASOS.com family, you might be interested to hear that we currently have a vacancy for a Junior Designer

The Detail

The key focus will be to support the Digital Designer on designing and artworking unique and fresh design executions across all online collateral including – website homepages, online promotions, landing pages, online editorial features, blogs, newsletters, social media, affiliate banners. You will also be localising the Russian site and all assets created for the Russian market. You will be a true brand guardian ensuring that all touch points are protected and are inline with the creative vision. An interest in fashion is an absolute must.

You will have superb layout, typography skills and experience in a digital design environment, ideally with an online retailer. An understanding and demonstrated skills with UI/UX is also important. Previous experience with a fashion/lifestyle brand or design agency is essential. Your design and artworking skills and styles are extremely versatile and you are flexible and happy to work in a fast changing environment.

You will have a BA/HND or equivalent in graphic/web design and an outstanding portfolio.

The Person

We are passionate about our people; they’re the future of our business, which is why we invest time and effort in recruiting the perfect match!  Our employees are passionate about ASOS.com, their role and the overall success of the company. We are all motivated to drive our own success and achieve individual objectives. Communication is key to any role here as our employees continually build relationships at all levels across the business. We’re fast paced, so all employees need to able to adapt to change pretty quickly, be enthused and excited about what’s around the corner for us.

Some key skills that you need...

• Highly creative
• A BA/HND in a relevant field is an advantage
• Fluent in Russian
• Fully conversant in Adobe Creative Suite – MAC platform
• Flash skills advantageous
• Superb layout skills, fantastic typography and good retouching skills. 
• Previous experience working with a content management system (CMS)
• Understanding of HTML  and all other technical requirements
• Experience in digital artworking
• Experience in working within a digital creative environment
• Experience in working with imagery and fashion graphics
• Excellent attention to detail
• Fully conversant in Adobe CS5 (InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop)
• Excellent verbal and written communication

Responsibilities:

• Support the Digital Designer in designing and producing creative assets, e.g. bespoke international campaigns, Facebook posts, newsletter banners, emails, landing pages, promotions, etc.
• Artwork of International, mainly Russian homepages, feature pages and newsletters
• Working closely with designers, artworkers, project managers and international editors
• Actively aware of all areas of design across fashion, trends, lifestyle and brands
• Be a source of inspiration by bringing new ideas and concepts to work
• Understand creative vision of department as directed by Creative Manager
• Support colleagues with technical expertise
• Actively responsive to fluctuating business workloads
• Liaising with coders, international editors
• Contribute to other team member’s workload as directed
• Raise workload/resource issues
• Ensuring all web projects are executed within time line and schedule
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with all other departments

Behavioural:

• Diplomatic
• Initiative
• Enthusiastic
• Driven
• Excellent attention to detail
• Willing to go the extra mile
• Adaptable to change
• Strong team player & workload management skills