Senior Graphic Designer

DeMellier is a London-based fast-growing designer handbag brand with strong values at heart. Awarded twice by the British Luxury Association WALPOLE, recognising its commitment to innovation, craftsmanship and the highest standards of quality. DeMellier handbags have become a favourite among strong women all over the world, including celebrities such as Beyonce, Emily Blunt, January Jones, Kristen Bell and Lily Collins among others.

In addition to its direct-to-consumer business, DeMellier is stocked in leading department stores such as Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Matchesfashion, Le Bon Marche and Lane Crawford among others.

We are looking for a Senior Graphic Designer to join our team in London. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join a fast growing company, reporting to the Founder/ Creative Director and the Head of Marketing, and working closely with the E-commerce teams, Wholesale and China teams, you will be:

• Brand aesthetics

  • Leading all visual output across our marketing channels, ensuring our visual language is in line with our brand DNA.
  • Being a brand guardian for DeMellier, working closely with the Founder & Creative Director to maintain an authentic brand aesthetic.
  • Ensuring all imagery and creative is maintained to a high standard across our online store, including campaign collection shoot imagery and e-commerce imagery, implementing visual merchandising strategy.
  • Overseeing assets for a variety of marketing, PR and business needs such as training packs, marketing decks, presentations etc.
• Graphic design across platforms
  • Support on graphic design and reviewing weekly email newsletters to ensure they are designed to a high standard and supporting designs for the website blog editorials.
  • Working closely with the E-Comm team to provide the correctly formatted and onbrand images of products and video.
  • Editing and reviewing video & stills ads for paid social campaigns including concept generation, overseeing banners for display ads & affiliate marketing.
  • Overseeing and supporting artwork across organic and paid channels such as newsletters, website, paid social and PPC ads etc.
  • Working closely with the Marketing teams to create high quality content and ensure strong storytelling in alignment with the marketing calendar.
  • Managing and creating printed editorial mini-magazines, overseeing that all print collateral across marketing, wholesale and internal use are maintained to a high standard.
• Management
  • Manage the 2 members of the creative team on a day-to-day basis, prioritise workload and organise multiple projects and deadlines.
  • Confidently reviewing and signing off your team’s work as well as outsourced projects. Responsible for managing (under the direction of the Creative Director) outsourced teams for seasonal campaign shoots, e-commerce product shoots & still life shoots.
    • Pre-production: liaise with outsourced teams.
    • Post-production: layout development, lookbook, cropping across a variety of platforms.

The ideal candidate:

• 4-6 years of relevant experience in a similar role either in-house or at an agency, preferably within E-Commerce.
• Hands-on experience in creating content for key social platforms (Instagram, TikTok).
• Excellent layout, typography and retouching skills Motion Design and video editing/animation skills.
• Understanding and experience working with print processes.
• Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, InDesign and Premier Pro/After Effects.
• Not a must but a nice to have: photography skills to help with ad hoc still life photoshoots.
• Collaborative team player, actively contributing to meetings and creative brainstorming.
• Demonstrated understanding of social media best practices, and a keen interest in digital trends, platform innovation and new features.
• Strong organisational skills - able to multitask, prioritise workload and meet deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail and visual understanding of brand DNA.
• Experience in a fast-paced, creative work environment, eager to learn and grow .
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).
• Full-time position beginning/mid of October.

• Must have the right to work in the UK.