Midweight Creative Designer

Design Bridge and Partners

ABOUT US At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move. Pulling people towards them with an irresistible force that compels and connects. With 900 creative minds across 17 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds and beliefs, we are united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients’ brands benefiting their business, people and the planet. With expertise across brand strategy, brand design, brand engagement and brand effectiveness our clients across the world include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, HSBC, Tencent, Twitch, Heineken, Reckitt and the BBC. ABOUT WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, WPP.com. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a Senior Designer to join our London studio, someone who wants to create the best work of their career and play a meaningful role in shaping bold, idea-led brands. This is a hands-on creative role for someone who thrives on ideation and craft in equal measure. You’ll work across brand identity systems, campaigns, communications and brand worlds, helping to define clear, single-minded ideas and expressing them with distinctive personality. You’ll collaborate closely with Creative Directors, strategists and writers to translate human insight into compelling ideas, and ideas into beautifully crafted outcomes. You’ll help set the standard for creative excellence within the studio, presenting work internally and to clients with clarity and confidence. Alongside delivering your own projects, you’ll mentor more junior designers and contribute to a culture that values candour, curiosity and collaboration. We’re looking for someone who understands that great design goes beyond decoration, that it’s creative problem solving. Someone who can bring together words, image, motion and experience to build brands that endure. You’ll present work internally and to clients, contribute to raising the bar for craft, mentor midweight and junior designers, and bring positive energy to the team. Above all, you’ll help create work that moves people, culturally, emotionally and commercially. ABOUT YOU  You are a senior-level designer with strong conceptual thinking and exceptional craft. Your portfolio demonstrates your ability to find a relevant human insight and translate it into a clear idea, expressed with confidence and personality. You move comfortably between identity systems, campaigns and broader brand worlds, and you understand how to take work from concept through to delivery without losing its original intent. You’re comfortable presenting and discussing your work, asking smart questions and constructively challenging briefs to push the thinking further. You respond well to feedback and know how to lead creatively without casting a shadow. You care deeply about the quality of what you put into the world, and you elevate the people around you in the process. You are culturally aware, creatively ambitious and motivated by the opportunity to create work that could be award-winning, but more importantly, work that genuinely connects. Breadth of experience across international brands, challengers or culturally relevant organisations is valuable, as is a curiosity about how brands show up in contemporary culture. WHY US? We’re passionate about our people and their careers. We’ll help you develop your skills and provide you with outstanding benefits. So you’ll have a chance to make your mark on our future, as we make a mark on yours. We’re proud to be the world’s most awarded brand design agency, with 28 Cannes Lions to our name and Creative Review Annual’s Most Creative Design Agency of the Year 2024. You’ll get to take new projects to award-winning potential, as part of a connected team of brilliant, tenacious people right by your side and across the world.   We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. Due to the volume of applications, we unfortunately can only respond to successful candidates. We will not accept unsolicited CVs or approaches via recruitment agencies.   #LI-DNI #LI-DNP

STARK

ABOUT US STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionising the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop, and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost-effective. This provides our operators with a decisive edge in highly contested environments. We are focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems, not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe today. YOUR MISSION We are looking for a Midweight/Senior Video Editor & Motion Designer to join our in-house visual content team. You will be a true editorial partner who owns the post-production pipeline end-to-end, working closely with the Head of Design & Brand and the Visual Content Manager. We aren't looking for someone to just take orders and stitch clips together. You will be a creative collaborator who pushes back on direction, offers "Plan B" solutions on the timeline, and understands how to visualize invisible engineering and raw performance in a way that feels natural, not forced. RESPONSIBILITIES * Own the edit from ingest to final delivery for high-end campaigns, technical deep-dives, and social assets. * Craft compelling stories that communicate the nuances of complex hardware and autonomous systems. * Handle professional color grading (utilizing ACES/DWG workflows) and immersive sound design natively within DaVinci Resolve. * Design and animate clean, functional 2D graphics and technical overlays that explain data and engineering concepts clearly. * Create large-scale motion design assets for trade show LED screens and global advertising campaigns. * Work with 3D product renders to composite them naturally into live-action shots, ensuring a seamless blend of digital and physical assets. * Actively contribute to the creative process by identifying narrative problems and proposing superior editorial solutions. QUALIFICATIONS * Bring 5–10 years of experience shaping stories within the outdoor, technical hardware, or high-performance lifestyle industries. * Operate as a DaVinci Resolve Expert by using the platform as your "home base" for high-end editing, professional color grading, and sound design. * Demonstrate After Effects Fluency through the creation of technical overlays and motion graphics that elevate the broader narrative. * Showcase 3D Proficiency as an added bonus, specifically with tools like Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini, or Unreal Engine for complex compositing. * Apply your Technical Sensibility to effectively market complex physical products and visualize high-performance engineering concepts. * Maintain a Collaborative Mindset in our fast-paced environment, where you’ll provide creative push-back and meaningful editorial insight. * Present a Portfolio/Reel that highlights a keen eye for pacing, color, and the use of motion design to enhance storytelling. HOW TO APPLY If this sounds like the kind of work you want to be doing, we'd love to see your reel. We are mainly looking to understand your sense of pacing, your eye for color, and how your motion work supports the broader story. If you have any "Before & After" breakdowns of your grades or compositing, please include them, we love seeing how our team builds their work.

DEPT

This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like social, influencer, TTL ad campaigns, augmented reality, AI and innovation. Our clients include eBay, easyJet, Just Eat Takeaway and Pepsico. JOB PURPOSE We are looking for Creatives for an exciting AI client of ours. The work we produce for them is varied and can range drastically from simple BAU creative responses, to in-person creative sprints and even full productions across multiple global markets. So, broad creative experience is required to ensure that whatever the brief, you feel comfortable delivering an excellent creative response. You will work with a wider team of creatives, designers, producers etc, to ensure great creative work!  Communication & presentation skills are critical due to frequent touchpoints with internal and external senior stakeholders in, both of which are located across the UK and US. You’ll be expected to work fast and nimble, getting work organised and ready to present to client. You will also attend and contribute to in-person creative sprints & workshops with the wider creative teams as well as the clients internal creative teams too.  WHAT YOU’LL DO: * Develop & craft brilliant, award winning ideas that capture attention and inspire our clients creatives * Deliver on-brand and on-brief work within budget and on time * Work closely with the accounts team to ensure a smooth monthly production process * Be aware of and respond to current advertising and media trends and pop culture * Present work internally and externally to an excellent standard * Stay up-to-date with industry developments * Team collaboration: work with Creative Directors, Head(s) of Creative and other Lead and Senior Lead Creative Planners to foster a stimulating environment, resulting in the happiness, retention and quality output of creative. * Champion craft and pay close attention to even the smallest details * Participate in new business pitches * Help to grow our creative offering, making sure we’re taking advantage of the latest tech and most advanced approaches, as well as expanding into new platforms WHAT YOU BRING: * Must be an AI-native and have an interest in AI generally * Broad and killer portfolio of work, with examples of tech or AI-led campaigns  * ImageGen skills - using AI to generate high quality imagery (big bonus) * A passion for motivating fellow creatives, offering support, advice and guidance * Experience with digital marketing, understanding platforms, potentials and limitations * Ability to work within a team as well as with clients * A love for learning new things and exploring new mediums * Experience in Figma  WE OFFER: * A flexible, hybrid working policy * The choice of medical healthcare providers (Bupa or Medicash)  * 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off each year * Company pension scheme  * EAP scheme * Ride to work scheme  * Enhanced family friendly policies * Buddy Program: You will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help you through your first weeks’ at DEPT®. * A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards. * Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together! * The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications. * Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities. WHY DEPT®? We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA. We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter. At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build. DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION  At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine. We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us. Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.