Brand Designer

Behind every investment is a person with ambitions, motivations and values. While we know that every client is unique, they come to J.P. Morgan Personal Investing for the same reason: our straightforward and transparent approach to investing, and the trust that 150 years of J.P. Morgan heritage brings.

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing offers award-winning investments, products and digital wealth management services to over 275,000 investors in the UK. We built the business with innovation as a core part of our ethos to give consumers the confidence and clarity to make informed investment decisions and achieve their financial goals. 

As a Brand Designer at JPMorgan Personal Investing you will be someone who can clearly demonstrate hands-on design expertise first and foremost. Your foundations are in building and maintaining scalable brand design systems, but you’re also comfortable in crafting marketing asset through the funnel, from outdoor advertising to digital display, social media, assets for web and email. You will be an integrated thinker who can bring together a campaign idea, following channel best practice in execution. You will feel comfortable in Figma and across Adobe Creative Cloud, including After Effects, spanning your skillset across brand systems, campaigns, social content and growth marketing. 

You should be aware of design trends across financial services and other customer-focused brands, with a point of view on how we could do things better at JPMorgan Personal Investment. You will also not be afraid to take considered risks or learn from failure. This position provides a unique opportunity to operate in a dynamic environment building digital products and services, backed by one of the world’s leading financial services providers.

Job responsibilities:

• Excellent hands-on brand design work and presentations across multi-channel marketing campaigns

• Working side by side with other designers and writers on idea creation, design execution and maintaining a creative team culture

• Partnering with marketing colleagues on creative briefs across paid, earned and owned channels

• Confidently manage and own projects at pace from brief to delivery, working with multiple stakeholders

• Maintain strong working relationships with team members, internal stakeholders and external creative agencies for cohesive communication and effective design outcomes

• Ensure design guidelines, systems and other best practices are followed throughout the design process 

• Ability to present design decisions effectively to team members and stakeholders and confidence in justifying your work

• Proof all design and production output to ensure completed work is error-free, meets the brief and achieves the desired design standards and brand guidelines

• Peer reviewing design work within the team as well as receiving team feedback

• Enhance all designs to meet the firm wide accessibility standards

• Work with Compliance and Legal stakeholders to maintain full awareness and understanding of appropriate legislative approvals needed for relevant channels, ensuring all materials are consistent with legal conditions and codes of practice.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Substantial hands-on experience working in an in-house design studio or creative agency at a mid-senior level
• Experience delivering comprehensive large scale multi-channel projects with a strong brand focus with a solid end to end creative design process
• Able to respond quickly to urgent requests and prioritise in an agile way with all open projects
• Strong portfolio demonstrating design competence, creative thinking and an understanding for audiences
• Knowledge of motion graphics and ability to video edit 
• Expertise in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, After Effects, Photoshop, InDesign), with the ability to animate.
• Knowledge of HTML5 banner creation for marketing campaigns
• An excellent team player who is calm under pressure, with a positive attitude
• Flexibility / adaptability (ability to change direction based upon team and stakeholder consensus)
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Jira & Confluence 
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, team-oriented, cross-functional environment

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