Designer

**Job Title**:Designer

**Location**:Mumbai, India

**A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE**:
Working in true collaboration with our client Unilever, at U-Studio we have one goal in mind: 'to be the leading agency partner for the development of stunning and effective needs based content and digital media campaigns'.

The Mumbai office is working cross category, spanning Foods, Refreshment, Home Care and Beauty / Personal Care. We are working on some of the best-loved brands, including Lux, Sunsilk, Vaseline, Axe, Lifebuoy, Dove, Pepsodent, Close-up, Lakme, Cif, Vim, Love and Care, Ponds, Surf, Magnum, Knorr, Taj Tea, and Kwality Walls as well as a premium portfolio and exciting new brand launches.

These brands are at the forefront of contemporary thinking, utilising in depth insight for digital strategy and content advertising. They are also dedicated to sustainability and foregrounding a brand purpose, which means the work we do with them requires working creative thinking into every brief, regardless of scale.

We want to create industry-leading, world class work that's truly beautiful, smart, and effective. To help us achieve our goal, we are looking for a strong, highly motivated and conceptual designer with beauty and BPC creds to join us in this exciting ambition.

As Designer you will be an experienced digitally focused designer, comfortable taking design projects from brief through to completion, providing new ideas and creativity whilst working closely with the client's brand guidelines. You will be producing design to the client's brief and exacting standards whilst positively influencing clients with your creative input in addition to undertaking and pitching new creative concepts. You will be expected to work on a range of creatives from e-commerce to social media, bringing simplicity in design to the most complex briefs.

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**:

- Producing beautiful and innovative designs for our client's websites, e-commerce (A+ and Shopalyst) pages and social media channels.
- To be responsible for the full design lifecycle from concept to execution.
- To develop a deep understanding of target audiences and the client's marketing strategy to deliver high quality results that have an instant, positive impact on the consumer, promoting products and brands.
- To pitch creative solutions in response to marketing strategies.
- To oversee and manage the preparation of all finished files that will comply with the correct output specifications.

**WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE**:

- A passion for design and conception.
- You'll have a deep affinity with layout, typography and idea-generation.
- Ability to take ownership of projects from concept through to completion.
- Consistent record of taking on, interpreting and delivering design projects within agreed deadlines.
- Attention to detail with the ability to work under own initiative.
- Excellent experience working closely with clients during kick-off.
- Confident in bringing your own innovative ideas and creativity to projects whilst working within a broad range of design guidelines across a variety of design collateral.
- Strong client liaison, with a proven track record of developing strong client relationships.
- Effectively organising and prioritising workloads to manage client delivery whilst simultaneously influencing clients with your own ideas and conceptual creativity.
- Excellent Adobe CS skills.
- Understanding of design principles and an awareness of UX, UI and Responsive Design trends - it is ideal but not essential.
- Working knowledge of After Effects animation is a bonus.
- On
- and Offline design experience with an emphasis on Digital.
- Retouching experience and skills to mid-level.
- Expertise in beauty and BPC brands

**Personal Attributes**
- Confident and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing client environment.
- A passionate and inspiring creative.
- The aptitude to learn new software and programmes efficiently and effectively.
- Self-motivated, working with little supervision.
- Collaborative team player, open minded - non-political.
- Discrete about all confidential and personal information.
- Driven, proactive, helpful, and enthusiastic team player.

**A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMPANY**:
Established in 2004, we are the first and only company to design, build and run bespoke in-house agencies and ecosystems for brands. Today, we create work that delivers business growth, fame and purpose for over 200 clients in 46 countries and counting.

Our unique model moves at the speed of modern business to drive change from the inside out; working smarter to make our clients' money go further, and helping them build better solutions, systems and brands. Client solutions include Unilever's U-Studio (a platform used by almost three-quarters of Unilever's brands globally), adidas' off-shore hub and PepsiCo's global digital team.

In 2020 we were ranked #1 in Adweek's Fastest Growing list (US) and featured in The Drum's