Digital Designer – Creative Agency

We’re looking for a digital designer to add to our small creative team. Someone with strong ideas, great design instincts and a real understanding of how to bring brands to life online.

This is a creative-led role for someone who wants to design work that's both beautiful and genuinely useful.

You’ll take a leading role in the websites and digital experiences we create, working from the very beginning of a project to help understand the brief, the business and its audiences. You’ll help shape site structures and user journeys before bringing everything together through thoughtful, brand-led UX and UI design.

We want someone who can take a brand and think about how it should come to life digitally - through typography, imagery, layout, interaction, movement and ideas.

You’ll work closely with our Creative Director, designers, developers, SEO specialist, copywriter and clients to take projects from initial thinking through design and into development and launch.

We’re a small studio, so there will always be variety. Digital will be your specialism, but you’ll also have opportunities to contribute creatively across a wide range of studio projects.

• Designing distinctive, brand-led websites and digital experiences in Figma, from early concepts through to responsive UX and UI
• Exploring how brands come to life online through typography, imagery, layout, interaction and movement
• Planning user journeys, sitemaps, information architecture and wireframes, and advising clients on structure, content and functionality
• Taking part in discovery workshops to understand the business, its audiences and goals
• Working closely with our copywriter so content and design develop together
• Presenting concepts and designs directly to clients, explaining your thinking and responding constructively to feedback
• Creating reusable components and flexible design systems that work effectively in development
• Collaborating closely with developers throughout the build, balancing creative ambition with what’s technically achievable and reviewing the finished site to make sure the design carries through
• Exploring interaction, animation and motion where they add something meaningful
• Developing digital work for existing clients as their businesses evolve, alongside occasional campaigns, email and wider studio projects
• Estimating your time and delivering work within agreed budgets
• Contributing ideas to Stride’s own brand and helping us keep improving how we approach digital work

Digital design is changing quickly and we want someone who's excited by that.

You don’t need to be an expert in every new AI tool, but we'd like you to be curious and already exploring how AI and emerging technology can improve the creative process.

That might mean using AI to explore ideas and creative directions, create or manipulate imagery, prototype interactions, support UX thinking, speed up repetitive production tasks or experiment with completely new ways of doing things.

We’re interested in people who actively explore new tools, question established ways of working and bring ideas back to the team about how we could do things differently or better.

You absolutely don’t need to tick every box. We’re much more interested in finding a brilliant designer with the right creative instincts, digital understanding and appetite to learn than someone who happens to know every piece of software we currently use.

• A strong portfolio of creative digital and website design work
• Excellent visual design skills, with a particularly strong eye for typography, layout, imagery and detail
• A good understanding of UX/UI principles and the ability to balance creativity with usability
• Experience thinking…