Mid-weight Graphic Designer @ Gearset

We believe great design can profoundly change the experience a company creates for its users, through considered aesthetics, and carefully-crafted information architectures and workflows. At Gearset, we strive to solve complex problems in ingeniously simple ways, and design and usability are core considerations in this. It shows, too - the simplicity of our design is regularly cited by our users as an important factor in their decision to use Gearset. But, we know we’ve still got a long way to go.

Our designers work within the marketing team to make sure the perception of the Gearset brand aligns with the strength of our product. We enable Gearsetters to easily make use of impactful creative assets, with the aim of setting all teams up for the best chance of success.

Please ensure you include a link to your portfolio when applying for this position.

What’s the opportunity for a Graphic Designer at Gearset?

Help to develop the visual identity of the Gearset brand, providing regular feedback and input to shape this.
You’ll support the team in the ideation, design and creation of various assets including promo and marketing materials, customer facing documents, pitch decks and website pages.
Pitch in with idea generation and content creation for marketing campaigns, promoting Gearset and building awareness, in order to support the long-term marketing strategy.
You’ll get to proactively suggest interesting and creative solution ideas for communicating relatively complex concepts using graphic design and web functionality.

What you’ll achieve

You’ll design web page layouts, working with our web developer to bring these to life.
Create promotional assets, including social ads, infographics, diagram and explainer graphics, pitches and presentations.
Monitor design requests from marketing (and wider GS team) and proactively manage design tasks/projects.
Aid in the creation/maintenance of (and adherence to) brand identity including graphic/artwork styles, colour palette, and logo mark(s).

About you

Previous experience as a graphic designer
Experience of working professionally in a design discipline
Proficient in Adobe and Figma
Experience in web design and competent in printed & digital media design
Ability to create graphic assets in accordance to a set style (icons, basic vector graphics etc)An iterative, feedback-driven approach to design
Exceptional attention to detail
Time management, in particularly across multiple projects
Teamwork & collaboration
Stakeholder management / management of expectations
Open communication in order to coordinate timelines and manage expectations
Integrating with team & culture, presenting ideas & concepts
An awareness and understanding of the marketing team’s objectives, key results and tactics
The ability to communicate complex concepts visually (infographics, diagrams etc)
User empathy, and an aptitude for using this to create captivating and evocative designs

Great to haves

An understanding of DevOps, Salesforce & the problems Gearset solves
Grasp of simple HTML & CSS
Graphic art skills beyond basic vector graphicsBasic animation skills — 2D or 3D
Experience working on marketing/advertising projects, including themes, messaging etc

Salary and benefits (the stuff you’d expect!)

Salary is between £30k - £40k (depending on experience)
This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 2-3 days a week in the office)
Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
Top end hardware provided
Free lunch in the office
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
Bupa health care
Life Insurance & critical illness cover
Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits

Life in the Cambridge office

Want to find out more about what it’s like to work in the Cambridge office? This page should give you a behind the scenes look at what you can expect. (link to Cambridge page)

About us

Gearset is the leading Salesforce DevOps platform trusted by more than 2000 companies around the globe, including McKesson, Accenture and IBM. We’ve the fast paced exciting environment of a start-up, with the success and ambition of a scale-up, with offices in Belfast, London, and Chicago, alongside our Cambridge (UK) HQ.

We’re proud of our unique culture built on trust, collaboration, transparency, and teamwork, allowing us to have a feedback-driven culture that keeps us focused on delivering the best solution for our customers.

Alongside our Glassdoor score of 4.8/5, and customer G2 scores of 4.7/5, we hold three awards from Best Companies UK. These include: Top 5 Best Company to work for in the East of England, UK Top 5 Best Mid-sized Company, and Top 5 Best Technology Company to work for in the whole of the UK.

Compensation Overview

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What you’ll achieve

About you

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Salary and benefits (the stuff you’d expect!)

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