Senior Brand Designer – 6 Month FTC

Company Description

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Our purpose is our momentum. It makes us feel good because we know we’re doing good. As we lead the way to a greener future, we do it together. We’re all about connections – with each other, with our customers and with the world. Just as our platform brings the world together, it’s our ambition that connects us. We motivate each other to go beyond our limits, to experiment, to fail and to always grow.

With over 110 million visits every month to our platform and £4.3 billion in net ticket sales, we’re always innovating and making moves towards our final destination — a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.

And we couldn’t do any of it without our incredible people driving us forward. Today, we’re a FTSE 250 company that’s proudly home to more than 1000 Trainliners from over 60 nationalities across offices in London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid and Brussels. It’s this diversity that energises us and makes us stronger, helping us to achieve amazing things.

With our sights firmly set on further European growth, there is no better time to jump on board this high-speed train and be part of our continued success.

Great journeys start with Trainline.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Brand Designer to join our multi-disciplinary Creative Studio. 

In this team you’ll share our mission of building a bold, distinctive brand identity. You will bring visual brand to life across the business, ensuring it is of a high standard and felt throughout the customer experience. 

Most of your time will be spent creating commercially focused static assets for our B2C growth marketing and working on wider, more long-lasting projects that improve our ways of working and our brand world. This could be for example developing our design system further or defining design conventions that allow us to design in a more efficient way. 

This role is part of Trainline’s Creative Studio and reports directly into the Lead Brand Designer, while working hand-in-hand with other key team members like copywriters, motion designers, the Senior Traffic Manager and the Creative Lead. 

You will have considerable experience working with (and developing) brand guidelines, taking core brand elements to generate highly effective static assets in a variety of formats as per the demands of our main growth channels. Using type, layout and photography you’ll find the right combination to any given project. 

You are also able to brainstorm with the rest of the team and come up with a creative concept/idea to lead your design executions. You work in a collaborative way and are a team player – you know creative excellence can’t be achieved alone. 

With a strong background in digital marketing and an understanding of industry standards, you will have the confidence to suggest and test new ideas. Combining this knowledge with a passion for creating elegant design, you will continuously search for opportunities to improve outcomes. 

Key responsibilities 

• Bring creative ideas to life – from creative concepting through to asset delivery, while sticking to our production processes and deadlines
• Promote high standards of design through stakeholder management and processes
• Increase the efficiency of creative delivery through innovative ways of working
• Work with the content team to find innovative answers to briefs
• Work with the Creative Studio Lead and the Lead Brand Designer to inform and develop Trainline’s creative brand direction
• Where there is an opportunity, find areas to optimise assets through creative testing and experimentation, balancing the need for brand consistency with enhancing performance

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience and a strong portfolio of predominately digital design work
• Proficiency on Figma
• Highly skilled user of Adobe CC
• Experience building and developing a visual brand and its guidelines
• Previous experience designing for performance marketing channels (e.g.Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Display) and understanding of their best practices
• Experienced at delivering creative solutions and assets for a variety of digital formats for paid and organic social, display advertising, CRM, landing pages, DOOH…
• You are process-driven and know how to manage your own time against requests. You can give accurate delivery estimations.
• Experienced in following creative and art direction guidelines
• You have previously worked directly with marketing teams
• Evidence of strong stakeholder management skills with a background in building productive working relationships across multiple teams
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and inspire others
• You are fully comfortable in English, both written and spoken.

Additional Information

Why should you jump on board?

We pay special attention to learning and development and organise quarterly company learning days as well as offering a learning budget that can be put towards resources of your choice. We will cover the costs of your professional subscriptions and give you access to our very own learning platform.

At Trainline, we care about the wellness of our employees. We host puppy therapy sessions, in-office yoga and run Mental Health First Aider training courses as well as having an Employee Assistance Program as one of our many company benefits.

We regularly throw fun social events such pub quizzes, karaoke nights and our large-scale Summer and Winter Festivals every year. Additionally, we love hosting meetups in our amazing event spaces and having the opportunity to support internal and external community groups.

We also hold companywide hackathons and our annual Trainline Tech Summit, which provides Trainliners with an opportunity to stand up and share their story, learnings, or new skills with their colleagues in a safe environment.

Our flexi-first approach

We believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and the value of a flexible workforce. Our flexi-first approach outlines our commitment to a hybrid way of working and our expectations of Trainliners. A key part of what makes Trainline special is our people and the value we get from the buzz and energy of our workplaces, and that’s why we’re proud to offer the best of both worlds. In practice this means in–office attendance at least 40% of the time over a 12-week period for all Trainliners. These in-office days are typically team led to help us connect, collaborate and create together.

Our Values 

• Think Big – We’re building the future of rail
• Own It – We care about every customer, partner and journey
• Do Good – We make a positive impact
• Travel Together – We’re one team

Interested in finding out more about what it’s like to work at Trainline? Why not check out what our employees say about us on Glassdoor? You can also find out more information by following us on LinkedIn or our ‘Life at Trainline’ Instagram account. 

We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world. 

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