Interviewing and onboarding for this role will be going ahead remotely while Covid-19 restrictions are in place.

On behalf of our rapidly growing client based in Bury, we are currently recruiting for a talented Graphic Designer.

• Designing powerful digital adverts (display, retargeting and paid social)

• Creating website assets banners

• Designing IG Feed Stories

• Designing imaginative weekly newsletters

• Conducting continual analysis of competitor activity both onsite and across digital marketing channels, always staying up to date with key market trends.

• Creating mockups and final outputs for our development team to build into digital products - such as the websites pages and digital platforms.

• 2 years + experience in a similar role
• Experience generating content for eCommerce brands
• Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere After Effects)
• Brilliant layout and typography skills, with a meticulous eye for detail and ability to easily liaise between print and digital artwork
• Skilled designing/animating for paid media (Social + Motion Graphic Ads).
• Excellent retouching skills colour correction
  

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a company that strongly believes in the development and training of its employees. You will be rewarded with a generous benefits package:

• Free parking
• An additional day off for your Birthday
• Flexible working
• 25 days off plus bank holidays and Christmas shut down

If this sounds like your perfect role, click Apply without delay!

If its not quite the job youre looking for, details of all our current roles can be found on our website, www.adriasolutions.co.uk

Interviewing and onboarding for this role will be going ahead remotely while Covid-19 restrictions are in place.

Graphic Designer

Oakley, Bedfordshire
Competitive and dependent on experience
Full time, 37.5 hours a week, temporary contract

Our client is looking for an experienced and technically minded Graphic Designer to join their studio on a short-term contract. Our client is a design agency that transform content into beautiful and engaging materials that educate and inspire learners around the globe. World-renowned publishers return to them because they have a team of exceptional people who deliver stunning design, technically accurate files, on-budget and to deadline.

Our client is specifically looking for an InDesign power user - someone who knows all the tips and tricks to be able to work methodically, consistently and quickly on long formatted documents. You don't necessarily need to have worked in publishing before but experience of working technically on long documents is a must.

Key duties of the role include:

• setting up jobs - developing clean, well-structured templates ready to start production;
• formatting text into accurate styles using GREP to facilitate this;
• carrying out corrections to proofs according to editorial mark-up using standard proof correction marks;
• layout of pages integrating photos and illustration with the text to create visually striking and balanced pages;
• producing complex 'realia' (examples of written English) independently;
• producing original solutions to educational books, covers and digital material which can be used as templates for production;
• using Adobe Creative Suite to its full potential. The client has team membership of Creative Cloud so you will have full access to all of the Adobe CC software.

You will want to work with our client if you:

• know how to use InDesign to the max (text variables, advanced GREP and scripting)
• love typography and editorial design and applying this to some of the most visually complex work in educational publishing
• are meticulous when it comes to attention for detail
• want to work for a company that looks after its staff (contributory pension, paid overtime, bonus scheme, employee assistance programme, cycle scheme, childcare vouchers, flexi Friday's and lots more).

The contract would initially be for a short-term basis (to be discussed) with a view to a permanent role. Our client is currently working remotely but once they are allowed, they will be back in their beautiful studio in Oakley, Bedfordshire. Relocation package available if necessary.

To apply for this role please submit your PDF CV, portfolio and short cover letter explaining how your experience meets our client's criteria.

Logistics People are looking for a very skilled and knowledgeable individual to look after our Social Media and Marketing.

We need a content creator to create high quality visual and graphic content for Social Media. We are looking for someone with a true creative flair and a passion for innovative design.
You will be creating content with direction from the managing director to boost our Social Media presence. 

Extensive knowledge of Social Platforms is a must for this role, you will need to show knowledge of Analytics and Ad Management Accounts.

WHAT YOU WOULD DO

•Develop Instagram, Facebook and Twitter content
•Maintain brand consistency throughout your work
•Maintain regular page content
•Maintain the look and feel of the social thereafter
•Offer new ideas and concepts clearly and effectively
•Sustain the companies website and update when required

REQUIRED SKILL

•Good working knowledge of the Adobe package: InDesign, Photoshop, Adobe After Effects Adobe Premier Pro & Spark AR
•Strong creative skills with ability to produce high quality content
•Videomaking and editing is a nice to have
•Strong photo editing using Photoshop
•Graphic design
•Basic copywriting skills
•Experience in boosting on Social Media platforms

Job Type: Full time

Expected start date: ASAP

Salary: Up to 60K

If you feel you are suitable for this role please click "Apply"

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, with great onsite benefits including canteen with all meals, drinks and snacks included.
• Healthcare contribution and inclusion in company pension scheme
• Work laptop and phone
• State of the art modern offices
• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus paid bank holidays
• Expanding workforce with potential for career progression for top performers
• Working with a company that will make your CV stand out.

Job title:

Job Description:

We’re supporting our clients as they adapt to a new world in the wake of COVID-19. We’re now recruiting for roles which will help our clients to deliver vital services and to resume business wherever possible.

What you’ll be doing:

**This role is home based but there is a requirement to be on site in Portsmouth for 3 days per week for the duration of the project**.

• Understanding different user types and analysing their needs, including accessibility and assisted digital needs.
• Contribute to the creation of sitemaps, user flows and customer journey maps.
• Creating and prioritising user personas and user stories in collaboration with the product team.
• Developing prototypes to exercise key user journeys, whether lo-fidelity wireframes or high-fidelity designs using a prototyping tool.
• Supporting in the planning, designing, and completion of usability testing sessions.
• Taking the lead on ‘show and tell’ sessions with our clients to demonstrate what we are learning and what we are building.
• Contributing to business cases and impact assessments for service improvements, taking part in presentations to explain these as needed.
• Communicating design ideas and prototypes to developers.

Managing and reporting to project stakeholders, while also managing your time across other teams

What we’re looking for:

• Demonstratable experience in a UX role or similar
• Strong working knowledge of UX/UI principles and methodologies
• Familiarity with user research, usability testing and analytics data
• Familiarity with information architecture (IA), wireframes and prototypes
• Experience with wireframing and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Axure, XD
• Good understanding of interaction design, including common UI patterns
• Knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Knowledge of Gov.uk Service Manual
• Previous experience in designing and facilitating usability testing sessions and stakeholder interviews
• Experience working in agile project teams and as part of multi-stream change programmes.
• A confident facilitator, capable of running design thinking and user testing sessions as well as presenting results back to senior stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders
• Strong commercial awareness
• A strong communicator with the ability to break complex topics down into key points for non-technical team members and clients.
• Exacting attention to detail, commitment to accuracy and quality
• Excellent organisational and communication skills - at all levels
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic - ability to work to tight deadlines, with little supervision

Nice to have…

• Experience of designing impactful digital learning solutions
• Experience in designing and developing blended learning journeys
• Experience designing for platforms such as Moodle, Mahara, Learning Locker, H5P and Alfresco

Security

Due to the nature of this position, we require you to either hold or be eligible to achieve SC and or DV clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years for SC and 10 years for DV.  We will provide assistance with helping you to obtain clearance if you do not already hold it.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary and benefits
• Private Healthcare
• 25 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

About Capita Consulting

Capita Plc are the largest UK management, services, engineering and consultancy employing more than 55,000 staff aligned to providing services to the finance and critical infrastructure sectors and heavily aligned to all levels of government supporting key functions across the UK.

Our breadth of skills, services and reach makes us the UK's top player in delivering management, engineering and development consultancy solutions for our customers.

Capita Consulting is a new division created in December 2019 to take a new approach to the market bringing our earned experience from industry and the broad knowledge across the group to provide advice, guidance and our combined expertise to guide and develop unique offerings and solutions to our wide range of existing clients and to develop new streams of revenue.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Looking to discover more? Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application and send us your CV. Any questions before taking the next step? You can contact alison.cunningham@capita.com for support.

All interviews, assessments and background checks will continue to take place online, to completely remove the need for face-to-face contact. All Capita colleagues who can work from home should do so; and where it is not possible for colleagues to work remotely, we have taken important steps to protect those working from Capita’s offices. Social distancing, enhanced hygiene and safety measures are already in place at all Capita locations that are open to protect our colleagues and manage the risk of COVID-19. The welfare of our people is of paramount importance to us, and we’re doing everything we can to keep our colleagues and customers safe during this time.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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Job Description:

We’re supporting our clients as they adapt to a new world in the wake of COVID-19. We’re now recruiting for roles which will help our clients to deliver vital services and to resume business wherever possible.

What you’ll be doing:

**This role is home based but there is a requirement to be on site in Portsmouth for 3 days per week for the duration of the project**.

• Planning, designing and conducting a variety of types of design research
• Supporting in the assessing and mapping of user experiences, evaluating user needs, anticipating future requirements, uncovering areas for potential improvement, and the development of to-be product and service visions.
• Turning research findings into business recommendations.
• Assessing the potential impact and value of any recommended improvements / innovations.
• Communicating your findings through appropriate research outputs, including user needs and stories, personas, user journeys, service blueprints, design concepts, research reports and presentations
• Running co-design and research workshops with stakeholders to uncover insights, and share research findings and insights.
• Managing and reporting to project stakeholders, while also managing your time across other teams

What we’re looking for:

• Demonstratable experience working in a User Research, or similar research focused, role
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team environment before, where you've taken a leading role in research which has impacted the future direction of the product or service.
• Confidence planning and executing remote and on-site research.
• Solid knowledge of research methods and toolkits, including when and how best to use them
• Specific experience in the following research methods; Usability Testing, Ethnographies, Diary Studies, Focus Groups, In-Depth Interviews, and Co-Creation Moderation.
• Experience writing recruitment briefs and working with recruiters to ensure a smooth recruitment process.
• Ability to create discussion guides and research stimulus, moderate sessions, and analyse and write comprehensive reports.
• Working knowledge of online survey tools (e.g.: Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey), analytical tools (e.g: Tableau, Excel), and Microsoft office suite (e.g.: Word, Powerpoint)
• An ambassador for research, championing the user and the role of research in the design process, while defining and upholding suitable quality, rigour, standards and research ethics.

• Confidence with clients, skilled in working closely with stakeholders, knowing what questions to ask and when in order to clarify the research brief
• Experience working in agile project teams and as part of multi-stream change programmes.

• A confident facilitator, capable of running design thinking and user testing sessions as well as presenting results back to senior stakeholders

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders

• Strong commercial awareness

• A strong communicator with the ability to break complex topics down into key points for non-technical team members and clients.

• Exacting attention to detail, commitment to accuracy and quality

• Excellent organisational and communication skills - at all levels

• Self-motivated and enthusiastic - ability to work to tight deadlines, with little supervision

• Knowledge of gov.uk service standards and GDS best practices
• Experience of service design methods and principles is advantageous
• Previous experience working in Government in a research capacity is beneficial

Security

Due to the nature of this position, we require you to either hold or be eligible to achieve SC and or DV clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years for SC and 10 years for DV.  We will provide assistance with helping you to obtain clearance if you do not already hold it.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary and benefits
• Private Healthcare
• 25 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

About Capita Consulting

Capita Plc are the largest UK management, services, engineering and consultancy employing more than 55,000 staff aligned to providing services to the finance and critical infrastructure sectors and heavily aligned to all levels of government supporting key functions across the UK.

Our breadth of skills, services and reach makes us the UK's top player in delivering management, engineering and development consultancy solutions for our customers.

Capita Consulting is a new division created in December 2019 to take a new approach to the market bringing our earned experience from industry and the broad knowledge across the group to provide advice, guidance and our combined expertise to guide and develop unique offerings and solutions to our wide range of existing clients and to develop new streams of revenue.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Looking to discover more? Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application and send us your CV. Any questions before taking the next step? You can contact alison.cunningham@capita.com for support.

All interviews, assessments and background checks will continue to take place online, to completely remove the need for face-to-face contact. All Capita colleagues who can work from home should do so; and where it is not possible for colleagues to work remotely, we have taken important steps to protect those working from Capita’s offices. Social distancing, enhanced hygiene and safety measures are already in place at all Capita locations that are open to protect our colleagues and manage the risk of COVID-19. The welfare of our people is of paramount importance to us, and we’re doing everything we can to keep our colleagues and customers safe during this time.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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Job Summary

BlackLine is a technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become the world’s most trusted name in financial automation and defines the cutting-edge category of Modern Finance. We are a named Leader in the 2019 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Corporate Performance Management, and one of the country’s best workplaces in Technology by Fortune™ Magazine.

The Product Design team at BlackLine drives product design and UX strategy across BlackLine’s entire suite of solutions and supports the key business objectives of the company. If you welcome solving complex challenges at the system level, and are passionate about enhancing user experience and productivity, as well as investing in customer success via B2B SaaS... come work with us!

The Staff Product Designer should be a UX evangelist and is responsible for overseeing various projects across multiple products.  This role will collaborate and align with product and engineering partners. This role contributes to the standardization of process and best practices within the design team and between cross-functional teams. This role participates in planning, goal, and success metrics creation in the design team as well as helping the team to reach the next level. They must be fluent in UX research, workshop facilitation, usability testing, lean UX, principles of design and UX best practices with superb hands-on skills.

Roles and Responsibility (list in order of importance)  

• Lead design efforts across multiple engagements and be the design partner for assigned product vertical(s)
• Understand BlackLine product ecosystem and build and support a cohesive user experience across various products
• Promote the value of design thinking
• Emphasize and advocate users
• Contribute to design strategy, vision and roadmap
• Scope, estimate and plan design efforts for the assigned vertical(s)
• Estimate and plan tasks and projects and manage a backlog and roadmap for assigned projects
• Collaborate and communicate with other partners with transparency for clear alignment
• Have expert knowledge in user research and set up a research/testing cadence and best practices
• Plan and facilitate workshops with various members within and outside the organization
• Groom BlackLine user personas and critical user journeys
• Support BlackLine Design System maintenance
• Deliver hands-on design execution from conceptualization to the final product, including CJM, sketches, user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes
• Help build a stronger design team by process and best practices optimization
• Support a culture of learning and mentor junior designers
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Years of Experience in Related Field: 10+ years as an interaction, user experience, or a product designer role

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, HCI, Graphic Design, or other related discipline or equivalent experience. Master’s degree preferred.

Design/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proficiency in user research, user needs evaluation, metrics and measurements, IA, interaction design, prototyping, visual design, stakeholder management, design strategy and planning, and workshop facilitation
• Expert knowledge of design processes and methodology
• Ability to lead lean UX practice (rapid discovery, prototyping, testing and iteration)
• Leadership skills to inspire and mentor others
• Experience working with large data sets/volumes of information
• Knowledge of responsive design, native iOS and Android design
• Fluency in Figma
• Excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills to articulate concepts, feedback and rationale and promote Design led initiatives
• Kind, assertive, positive, easy to with, team player with strong work ethics
• Strong design portfolio to demonstrate above qualifications
• Formal portfolio presentation is required during interview 

Preferred Qualifications

• Enterprise SaaS experience
• Experience with FinTech products
• Experience with HTML/CSS and JS

BENEFITS:

• Competitive salary, with great onsite benefits including canteen with all meals, drinks and snacks included.
• Healthcare contribution and inclusion in company pension scheme
• Work laptop and phone
• State of the art modern offices
• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus paid bank holidays
• Expanding workforce with potential for career progression for top performers
• Working with a company that will make your CV stand out.