Senior Designer

The Role Join MVF’s in-house creative team as a Senior Designer, shaping how our own and our partners’ brands show up across every touchpoint: campaigns, customer journeys, email, white papers and more, bringing the strategic thinking to steer the work, as well as make it.

What we're offering you:

Summer Fridays Competitive holiday benefits - 25 days a year paid holiday, plus 8 bank holidays (increases 1 day a year up to 30 days)
Hybrid working - 3 days a week in the office

Closed for Christmas holidays - Extra days not taken from your annual holiday allowance.

Work from anywhere for 2 weeks a year

Life Assurance and Income Protection to protect your loved ones Benefits allowance for health, dental, and vision coverage

Six months paid maternity leave, and one month paid paternity leave (subject to qualifying conditions) inclusive of same-sex and adoptive parents

Defined Contribution Pension and Salary Sacrifice Scheme Be Well:
Our award-winning wellbeing and mental health programme to support all MVFers and their families

Family Forward support for our MVF parents and their mini-mes2 charity days a year

The Role You’ll join a small, close-knit design team within MVF’s in-house creative department. You’ll work across the full breadth of our brands: rebrands, branded campaigns, customer journeys, white papers, email designs and templates.

You’ll also handle partner brands with insight and care. You’ll manage several projects at once and work closely with stakeholders across the business. You won’t just execute briefs: you’ll be trusted to give strategic steer, explain your design thinking to people with different levels of experience, and own your work from idea to execution. We value designers who are proactive with a real passion for user needs.

Responsibilities:

Produce high-quality design assets for our brands, including: paid marketing creatives, sales projects, editorial, email templates, white papers and more.

Own our brands and set the standards they’re held to, so they resonate with customers and clients alike, including helping to lead rebrand projects.

Give strategic steer on projects, and raise it when something isn’t heading in the right direction and double down on when things are.

Manage several projects at once with excellent time management and understanding of how deadlines affect the wider business.

Build strong relationships with stakeholders, and explain your design decisions clearly to people with different levels of design literacy. Ensure work reflects project requirements, objectives and the wider business strategy.

Build and maintain design templates for the Creative Team, as well as for stakeholders across the business.

What Success Looks Like:

Consistent, high quality design across every touchpoint.

Stakeholders trust your judgement.

Ideas start with you. You lead the sprints and sessions that shape our brands.

Our Ideal MVFer:

Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud – Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign and confidence with tools like Canva, Lovable and other emerging platforms.

A strong foundation in digital and user centred design, with experience across email, social, web and campaign assets, and in creating reusable templates that others can build on. Motion design skills a big plus!

Highly collaborative and works well when leading or supporting creative projects. Effective communication of ideas that support high quality design work Ideally a mix of agency and in-house experience, so you’re used to juggling several projects at pace while working closely with stakeholders.

Has a portfolio showing ownership of brand work end to end.

Experience designing for multiple brands, including working within partner or client brand guidelines.

A high standard of craft and execution,…