Salary: £26,000 – £30,000 DOE

As a Graphic Designer, you sit within the Creative department, working on a variety of projects for different clients, as well as for Arke itself. You’re responsible for creating designs – ranging from purely typographic to illustrative – for brands and identities, advertising campaigns, creative pitches, and marketing collateral for print and online. You’ll work on web and animation projects as well as print and online ads.

Who we are:

Arke is a multi-award-winning, bold, and innovative digital marketing agency based in Brighton. We break norms and merge creativity with strategy to deliver campaigns and customer experiences that don’t just hit targets—they redefine them. Driven, curious, and unapologetically ambitious, we push boundaries to help our clients lead their industries while staying true to our values: Be Real, Be Curious, Be Bold.

Experience:

• Minimum 2+ years of relevant and hands-on agency experience in a creative role working on campaigns and designs for brands & organisations in various industries.
• You’re a confident user of Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate, After Effects and Premiere Pro), Figma, Canva, AI creative tools such as Dall-E, Runway & MidJourney.

Your working style:

• Self-starter: You’re highly organised and have no problem reporting on and managing your own time using a project management tool.
• Communicative: You’re open to feedback and can constructively accommodate clients’ amendments.
• Creative thinker: You are naturally creative and can manage complex challenges as they present themselves to achieve our client’s objectives best.
• Constraints: You thrive under pressure. In a marketing agency, we can have tight deadlines to meet our different clients’ needs; therefore, time management skills are essential. 
• Passionate: You live and breathe design, and you have a genuine curiosity about marketing that informs your work.

Responsibilities:

As a Graphic Designer, you’ll lead the creative output for your projects, with QA oversight from the Head of Creative. You’ll collaborate with Copywriters, Animators, and the Head of Creative as needed. Working in a marketing agency, you’re expected to understand marketing principles and adhere to best practices and accessibility standards.

• Duties – You’ll be involved in the entire process—from ideation to production and delivery. You’ll attend client meetings and liaise with the Arke Account Management team and sometimes directly with clients via email or meetings.
• Types of projects – Tasks include identifying client needs, developing briefs, creating visual executions, moodboards, and stylescapes, preparing presentations, contributing to estimates, storyboarding, amending existing assets, and branding rollouts across touchpoints.
• UX experience – The ideal candidate will have UX design experience or an interest in enhancing website and digital best practices.
• Output – Your work includes brand creation and guidelines, social media content, exploratory design routes, campaign assets (online, print, social media, and display), animations, print collateral (brochures, leaflets, posters), creative proposals (pitch decks and speculative work), case studies, award entries, and marketing materials to promote Arke and its clients.
• Show your work – You will produce roughs, scamps, and artwork sets, consistently resize assets, and create social templates.
• Presenting work and managing expectations – You’ll run smaller workshops with clients during fact-finding stages, present work, and shape feedback to refine projects. With a keen eye for detail, you’ll clearly present research like moodboards and stylescapes to guide clients through the process. Any project concerns should be flagged early to avoid delays.
• Pushing boundaries – Your work should exceed expectations, ensuring clients are consistently impressed by Arke’s creative output.
• Ways of working – You’ll work both independently and collaboratively to develop visual concepts. While you need to follow specific instructions, adhering to procedures is essential. Delivering high-quality work on time is a must.
• Time – You’ll track time spent on projects to help Arke monitor project profitability, team capacity, and capability—supporting forecasting and future quotes.

Who you are:

• You’re Real: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diversity and diverse ways of working. We are accepting of new ideas, new partnerships, and new ways of doing things.
• You’re Curious: We believe in the power of curiosity, and we are always hungry to know more, challenge known truths, and uncover new trends, innovations, and approaches. We never want to do the “same old”; we push boundaries and bring excitement to all we do. 
• You’re Bold: We encourage creative thinking and conviction in your delivery. We embrace differences and use this as our USP to show our innovative approach to often similar challenges.

As an equal-opportunity employer, we actively encourage diversity and respect the independent perspectives of all.

Package:

You will be an integral part of an exciting and fast-growing company that is proud to be:

• A Living Wage employer
• A certified Great Place to Work
• A member of the Endometriosis Friendly Employer Scheme
• A member of the IPA, providing you access to industry-leading training and resources

Every member of staff’s personal development is extremely important to us. So, you will receive a personalised progression plan crafted to suit your ambitions and all the training required to help you achieve them.

We also have a generous benefits package, including:

• Annual Leave: 25 days of paid holiday, in addition to public holidays.
• Special Days Off: An extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
• Remote Work: The flexibility to work from home on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
• Loyalty Holidays: An additional day of holiday for each year of service as a token of our appreciation for your dedication.
• Volunteering Leave: Two extra days of paid leave annually to support volunteering activities of your choice.
• Pension Scheme: A comprehensive pension plan to support your future.
• Profit Sharing: Eligibility for participation in the company’s profit-sharing scheme, allowing you to share in our success.
• Benefits Options: A choice between the Pirkx benefits scheme, Vitality health insurance, a gym membership, or a health and wellness package with About Balance, tailored to support your well-being.
• Flexible Working: Flexi-time and Time Off in Lieu (TOIL) to help you balance work and personal commitments.
• Employee Events: Seasonal events arranged by our Culture Committee
• Friday Perks: Early finishes on Fridays, accompanied by social drinks to kick off the weekend right.

This package is designed to reward your hard work and commitment and support your health, well-being, and work-life balance.