Mid-weight Graphic Designer

It’s an exciting time to join Gearset! In the last few years we’ve rocketed from a 7 person start-up to nearly 240 people, and we’re only just getting started. We’re working on building the best Salesforce release management solution on the market, and we’re looking for a graphic designer to join our team and help Gearset to stand out in the market.

We believe great design can profoundly change the experience a company creates for its users, through considered aesthetics, and carefully-crafted information architectures and workflows. At Gearset, we strive to solve complex problems in ingeniously simple ways, and design and usability are core considerations in this. It shows, too - the simplicity of our design is regularly cited by our users as an important factor in their decision to use Gearset. But, we know we’ve still got a long way to go.

Our designers work within the marketing team to make sure the perception of the Gearset brand aligns with the strength of our product. We enable Gearsetters to easily make use of impactful creative assets, with the aim of setting all teams up for the best chance of success.

Our culture of trust, transparency, and collaboration, means everyone at Gearset is given the autonomy to succeed and are trusted to do good work. We only add process when it helps us get things done, and we’re allergic to pointless meetings! We live by our core company values which aren’t just nice words—they guide us through day-to-day challenges and are the foundation of how we work together. 

Please ensure you include a link to your portfolio when applying for this position

• Help to develop the visual identity of the Gearset brand, providing regular feedback and input to shape this.
• You’ll support the team in the ideation, design and creation of various assets including promo and marketing materials, customer facing documents, pitch decks and website pages.
• Pitch in with idea generation and content creation for marketing campaigns, promoting Gearset and building awareness, in order to support the long-term marketing strategy. 
• You’ll get to proactively suggest interesting and creative solution ideas for communicating relatively complex concepts using graphic design and web functionality.

• You’ll design web page layouts, working with our web developer to bring these to life.
• Create  promotional assets, including social ads, infographics, diagram and explainer graphics, pitches and presentations.
• Monitor design requests from marketing (and wider GS team) and proactively manage design tasks/projects.
• Aid in the creation/maintenance of (and adherence to) brand identity including graphic/artwork styles, colour palette, and logo mark(s).

• Ideally 3 years plus experience as a graphic designer 
• Experience of working professionally in a design discipline
• Proficient in Adobe and Figma
• Experience in web design and competent in printed & digital media design
• Ability to create graphic assets in accordance to a set style (icons, basic vector graphics etc)An iterative, feedback-driven approach to design
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Time management, in particularly across multiple projects
• Teamwork & collaboration
• Stakeholder management / management of expectations
• Open communication in order to coordinate timelines and manage expectations
• Integrating with team & culture, presenting ideas & concepts
• An awareness and understanding of the marketing team’s objectives, key results and tactics 
• The ability to communicate complex concepts visually (infographics, diagrams etc)
• User empathy, and an aptitude for using this to create captivating and evocative designs

• An understanding of DevOps, Salesforce & the problems Gearset solves
• Grasp of simple HTML & CSS 
• Graphic art skills beyond basic vector graphicsBasic animation skills — 2D or 3D
• Experience working on marketing/advertising projects, including themes, messaging etc

• Salary is between £30k - £40k (depending on experience)
• This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 2-3 days a week in the office)
• Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
• Top end hardware provided
• Free lunch in the office
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
• Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
• Bupa health care
• Life Insurance & critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits