Senior Designer
80 DAYS is looking for an exceptional Senior Designer to join our creative team.
We work with some of the world’s leading luxury travel and hospitality brands, creating brand identities, advertising campaigns, websites and digital experiences.
We’re looking for someone who can do more than make things look beautiful.
You’ll be an accomplished designer and strong creative thinker who can take a strategic or creative brief and turn it into distinctive, beautifully crafted and commercially effective work.
This is an integrated role spanning brand, advertising, campaigns and digital design.
You might be developing a creative route for an advertising campaign one day, evolving a luxury hotel’s visual identity the next, and then working with our UX and development teams to bring that same brand to life online.
You’ll work closely with senior creative leadership and colleagues across Brand, UX, Digital and Strategy, taking ownership of substantial projects while contributing positively to the wider creative direction of the team.
We expect you to care as much about the idea and why it works as you do about how beautifully it is executed.
Permanent Role, Edinburgh
Role & Responsibilities
Creative Concepts & Campaigns
Turn strategic and creative briefs into strong visual concepts and campaign ideas.
Develop advertising that is distinctive to the brand and capable of capturing attention quickly.
Think beyond individual assets to create campaign systems that work across multiple channels and formats.
Work collaboratively with strategists, copywriters, account teams and digital specialists to develop ideas from the outset.
Apply strong judgement around visual hierarchy, messaging, imagery and audience.
Create work across paid social, display, video, CRM and wider digital channels.
Use photography, motion, animation and video where these strengthen the creative idea.
Balance creative ambition with commercial effectiveness.
Digital & Website Design
Work with UX specialists and developers to create engaging digital experiences.
Translate brand and campaign thinking into high-quality website design.
Create beautifully crafted design with strong typography, hierarchy and attention to detail.
Understand responsive design, modern UI and the fundamentals of good user experience.
Design with both the customer and the client’s commercial objectives in mind.
Understand the opportunities and practical realities of digital production.
Brand Identity
Develop and evolve distinctive visual identities from strategic propositions.
Turn brand strategy into strong visual ideas and systems.
Apply brands consistently and creatively across advertising, digital experiences and wider communications.
Contribute to the development of brand guidelines and creative systems.
Understand how to protect brand consistency while still creating fresh and engaging work.
Senior Design Contribution
Take ownership of substantial design projects from brief through concept development to final execution.
Make confident day-to-day creative decisions while collaborating with senior creative leadership on major creative direction.
Explain and rationalise your thinking clearly to colleagues and clients.
Contribute positively to the quality of our creative work through strong ideas, craft and constructive collaboration.
Share knowledge and experience with colleagues and support the wider design team.
Manage multiple projects and competing priorities while maintaining consistently high standards.
Stay curious about advertising, design, culture, technology and emerging creative tools.
Skills & Experience
Essential
Demonstrate strong experience in an established or senior design role, ideally within an agency environment.
An exceptional portfolio showing both strong ideas and strong execution.
Experience across a combination of advertising, brand and digital design.
Evidence that you can take a strategic or creative brief and turn it into a distinctive creative idea.
Excellent typography, layout, composition and visual craft.
A strong understanding of advertising — what captures attention, communicates quickly and creates distinction.
A commercial mindset and an understanding that great design has a job to do.
Strong digital design capability, including responsive design, UI and UX awareness.
Expert working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
Confidence taking ownership of substantial projects and making sound creative decisions.
The ability to explain the thinking behind your work, not simply present the finished execution.
Strong collaborative skills and the confidence to work with strategists, copywriters, developers, account teams and digital specialists.
High standards, curiosity, judgement and exceptional attention to detail.
Desirable
Experience working with luxury or premium brands.
Experience within travel, hospitality or lifestyle.
Experience presenting creative work directly to clients.
Motion, animation or video experience.
Experience supporting or mentoring other designers.
Understanding of HTML, CSS and CMS environments.
Understanding of conversion optimisation, testing and the relationship between creativity and performance.
Understanding of digital accessibility.
Experience or genuine curiosity around AI and emerging creative technologies.
Renumeration
Salary DOE
Hybrid/flexible working - In the office 2-3 days/week for team meetings & collaborations.
Generous benefits package including annual bonus scheme, private healthcare (after 1 year), Hotel Friends & Family rates, Company Pension scheme and Life Insurance.
Additional holiday entitlement for your birthday and years of service, up to 38 days leave per year.