Senior Designer

About Gowling WLG

We have more than 1,400 legal professionals working around the world. Our offices span across 19 cities in Canada, the UK, Continental Europe, Asia and the Middle East. There's strength in our global presence – we embrace our differing cultures and work together as one team. We also understand the importance of investing in relationships that build knowledge and trust, while we provide legal advice that's tailored to our clients' world.

'Our people and distinct culture are what makes us different. We know this through client and employee feedback and this drives everything we do'' Chris Oglethorpe, HR Director.

There are great opportunities for all our people to flourish. Through training and personal development they can grow in their role. Our people are the cornerstone of our success, across legal, business support and early talent. We care about their happiness and believe in the power of teamwork. We want them to feel empowered and recognise that by supporting, respecting and embracing everyone's different contributions we achieve more.

Working flexibly, working fairly

Agile working offers people more freedom and flexibility in where, when, and how they work. As technology advances and our workforce becomes more diverse – and with clients often working to a 24/7 rhythm – having extra flexibility is key to helping us balance work and other commitments sensibly and productively.

By supporting people to choose where and when they get their work done, we help them to make a full and fair contribution to their team – while maintaining that all important work-life balance.

Where possible and depending on business needs, we will consider all flexible working options such as part-time working, job sharing, working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with Gowling WLG you favour flexibility in your working arrangements, please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.

Main Purpose of the Job

• Working with the Head of Design to manage, communicate and deliver the firm's brand strategy.
• Responsible for creating outstanding, original and brand enhancing graphic design/marketing solutions that are aligned to the firm's brand identity.  Work with internal and external clients to understand their needs and create a consistent ‘on-brand’ experience to meet their objectives.
• Management of the day to day workflow within the design studio and project manage service delivery.
• Responsible for the adherence to the firm's corporate identity and help educate and enforce the visual identity to all internal and external stakeholders.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Working with the Head of Design to enhance the brand and ensuring our brand strategy is maintained
• Develop multiple design projects for internal and external use from concept through to completion.
• Provide guidance on and help enforce best practice use of the firm's visual identity
• Management of brand assets; photography, imagery, graphics, printing, video production and of external suppliers who produce branded communications for the firm
• Develop strong working relationships with other members of the business services and legal teams to provide best creative solutions for business development materials
• Responsible for managing own workload, reporting directly to the Head of Design for work allocation and report on progress
• Day to day supervision of the design team members workload and creative direction
• Learn and develop new and existing skills in order to fulfil and progress the team expertise
• To take briefs from key stakeholders and challenge and improve where appropriate
• Stay up-to-date with current industry trends
• Work within time/budget constraints
• Day to day management of the design process that includes filling, archiving and general housekeeping

Key skills and experience

• Experience of brand strategy and corporate identity management
• The ability to create and develop brand guidelines and templates
• Experience designing across multi media platforms
• The ability to manage multiple projects within budget and time constraints
• The ability to take a brief from clients face to face and remotely
• Be able to work with stakeholders at all levels
• Think creatively and deliver concepts
• Liaise with external stakeholders to produce on-brand collateral
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong knowledge of Adobe CS suite and associated industry standard software
• Photographic and video production skills
• Strong communication skills
• Experience of print, the print industry and repro in general
• Experience of image retouching and manipulation
• Experience of design for print and digital.

Equal Opportunities

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment.  The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity.  This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work.  Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.