Front-End Web Designer​/Graphic Designer

Front-End Web Designer / Graphic Designer

finaghy, antrim, United Kingdom

Company: JR UK

Client /

Employer:

GEKKOSHOT

Posted: 24.05.2026

Job reference: 890700305146681753637343

Office-based in Belfast (this is not a remote role)

We're hiring a designer and front-end builder who can take a website from concept through to a finished, live site with minimal hand-holding. This is a hands‑on role, not a strategy or management one. You'll be designing, building, and delivering client websites to a high standard, alongside the visual assets that support them.

Building client websites end to end. You’ll handle design, build, and delivery across multiple active projects, working on real briefs for real businesses across Northern Ireland and beyond.

Alongside the web work, you’ll produce the visual assets that go with it: brand identities, campaign visuals, social graphics, ad creative, brochures, and digital‑first design systems.

We have a full pipeline running, so this is a busy role from day one. The right person will be confident taking a concept from initial sketch through to polished, final delivery.

We’re an AI‑first agency. AI is built into how we design, build, and deliver across the business. The role uses AI to enhance the work, not replace the designer, including mood boarding, concept exploration, layout iteration, asset generation, copy drafts, code troubleshooting, and generating site sections  expect the person in this role to use AI tools daily and to bring new tools and approaches to the team as they emerge.

The craft still matters. AI helps you produce more and faster, but the judgement, the eye, and the final quality control are yours.

Word Press runs most of our client work, so strong Word Press experience is essential. Around that, we use a range of builders and design tools depending on the project. We’re not tied to any single tool, and we expect new hires to be comfortable picking up new platforms quickly.

• 1 to 2 years in a graphic design role, ideally within an agency, studio, or fast‑paced in‑house team. Portfolio showing strong work across brand, digital, and campaign.
• Strong grip on the fundamentals: typography, layout, branding, and digital design principles.
• Word Press: confident across themes, plugins, and customisation, and comfortable building sites from scratch.
• Fluency in the wider toolset: comfortable picking up new builders, plugins, and platforms quickly, including new AI tools as they emerge.
• Industry‑standard design software at a professional level: fluent across the full range of design and prototyping tools used in agency environments today.
• UX awareness: understand how design affects conversion and can structure a page to achieve desired actions.
• Ability to present and explain your work: able to walk a client or colleague through a design and articulate the thinking behind every decision.
• AI built into day‑to‑day workflow: using AI tools to design faster, ideate wider, and deliver more.

• Agency experience and work across web and social content.
• Comfort with responsive design and social‑first campaigns.
• Experience collaborating with strategists, developers, content teams, and performance marketers.
• Woo Commerce or other e‑commerce on Word Press.
• Basic understanding of SEO principles such as page speed, image optimisation, and heading structure.

Self‑motivated. Takes a brief, asks the right questions, and gets on with it. A strong eye for detail. Notices what’s off without being told. Cares about alignment, spacing, consistency, and image quality. Open to feedback. Comfortable both giving and receiving it. Ambitious and curious about AI, new tools, and industry trends.

Where: Office-based in Belfast, just outside the city centre, with free parking on site.

This is not a remote role. You will be in the office every working day. If you are based outside Northern Ireland and not planning to relocate, please do not apply.

Hours: Flexible, and we finish at 4:30 pm each day.

Role type: Permanent.

Salary: £28k to £35k depending on experience. Flexible if the portfolio justifies it. Annual…