ZIGGURAT XYZ: Junior Product Designer

We’re looking for a full-time junior product designer to join our growing development team. You’ll be working across the business to help our roster of You Tube clients develop, source, and launch innovative products and merchandise to our client’s audiences.

You will be a curious learner, accustomed to researching ideas and digging deep for comprehensive and creative solutions. You will have a good knowledge of the manufacturing and design process and how something goes from an idea to a physical product. You’ll be passionate about using your design skills to communicate and refine product ideas in the early stages.

You will pride yourself on being pragmatic and your perseverance, with a demonstrable passion for working behind the scenes in a creative endeavour. A highly organised individual with strong research skills and an interest in collaborating on new creative projects will be a wonderful fit for the role.

What you’ll be doing:

• Speaking with You Tube creators and colleagues in the product and talent department to consider creative opportunities
• Creating mood boards, gathering research, producing preliminary sketches and illustrations as part of the early design process
• Supporting the communication, review, and refinement of product concepts with consideration of real world and human factors
• Supporting the documentation and forecasting of project finances, monitoring budgets, ensuring profitability and assessing appropriate market pricing
• Speaking with and researching potential manufacturers, service providers and freelancers to deliver the final product
• Preparing appropriate briefs and setting requirements with external creatives
• Delivering and refining project materials where appropriate, i.e. illustrated poster, or packaging net
• Supporting colleagues in the launch, distribution, and ongoing availability of products and appropriate marketing
• Updating project trackers and maintaining historic reference materials for ongoing developments

We offer a unique working environment, creative atmosphere, and consider personal development of the utmost importance. You will have the option of working entirely remote within the UK, being based at our office in Northampton or a hybrid of the two.

We offer all staff 25 days annual leave excluding bank holidays, as well as inclusion in the company’s profit share scheme, and our health insurance policy.

This role will suit someone with an interest in producing a range of consumer-facing products, with a relevant degree in product or graphic design. You’ll enjoy having something physical in your hands at the end of the process, but the concept ideation, research, marketing and e-commerce aspects are all an appealing and exciting part of the process that you'll look forward to for each project.

You will want to help our creators go beyond a hoody with their logo on it.

You are familiar with communicating three-dimensionally through sketching, but can also hold your own while producing budgets, briefs, and other administrative reports. At the very least, you can tell when someone’s project settings are set up in RGB rather than CMYK. Conversely, this role will not be a good fit if you spend hours ensuring your high-fidelity renders are perfect.

Whilst you will work closely with our other in-house product designer, most of your colleagues will not be versed in design. You must feel comfortable communicating internally and conveying design principles, manufacturing terminology, fulfilment models, and other relevant information with non-experts. You will also develop your own relationships with suppliers and talent, and you will be confident speaking with even the best-known creators.

You will be disciplined and methodical in the creative process, have a broad and entrepreneurial approach, and not be wedded to any one visual language or design style. A chance to join a small, but scrappy product team excites you.

Ziggurat XYZ represents emerging and established names in digital media, providing a bespoke management service to You Tube creators as they grow and develop their audience, content, and businesses. We are the first agency in our…