Senior Brand Designer

The role

You will elevate how brands show up visually by taking ownership of creative concepts to final delivery. You will work across brand, campaign, social, print, CRM, paid media, and editorial channels.

What you will do

• Deliver high-quality design across brand, campaign, social, print, CRM, paid media and editorial channels.
• Partner with the Head of Creative, Creative Strategist and Copywriters to develop creative ideas and campaign directions.
• Interpret brand guidelines pragmatically.
• Produce assets that scale including layouts, toolkits, templates and visual systems.
• Concept and create social-first paid video content for YouTube and Meta.
• Work with Product Designers to ensure brand and campaign creative translates into digital journeys.
• Present work with clarity, explaining rationale and impact.
• Provide constructive, objective feedback to freelancers.
• Bring structure and consistency to design delivery through file organisation and process improvements.
• Contribute to Carwow’s Creative Community and explore AI solutions in the creative workflow.

Required qualifications

• Strong portfolio showcasing concept development and crafted design across digital and print.
• Proficiency in Figma, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.
• Ability to create coherent campaign executions from early concepts to multi-channel rollouts.
• Experience adapting design to fit channel needs, especially across social and performance environments.
• Comfortable collaborating creatively with copywriters and stakeholders.
• Self-sufficient, organised and proactive.
• Strong understanding of visual trends, social formats and the role of motion in brand expression.
• Natural collaborator who enjoys working across disciplines.

Nice to have

• Motion design capability (After Effects + Premiere Pro)
• Interest or experience in shooting UGC-style short form content
• Illustration or iconography skills
• An interest in creative operations, workflow improvements or building toolkits (including AI solutions)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• 28 days’ holiday + bank holidays (up to 35 with service)
• Share options
• Pension via Royal London (up to 5% company contribution)
• Bupa private healthcare
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Monthly wellbeing coaching with Spill
• Inclusive parental leave policies
• Bubble childcare support & discounted nanny fees
• Work-from-abroad scheme
• Generous learning & development budget
• £500 / €550 home office budget

Before you apply

• Introductory call with our Talent team
• Video call with Head of Creative (30 mins)
• Concepting or design task presented to two members of the Brand Creative team (1 hr)
• Interview with our Brand and Comms Director (30 mins)

About the company

Carwow is a car-changing destination that combines technology, media and automotive expertise. It includes the Carwow Group and Autovia, creators of AutoExpress and Evo magazines.