Based: High Wycombe / Hybrid
Term: Permanent, Full time
Salary: £25,000 - £35,000 + excellent benefits
The Role:
As Creative Artworker, you will be responsible for enhancing the impact and reach of our campaigns by working closely with division, regional, and our various brand marketing teams. You will support these teams by creating, adapting, and localising marketing assets across various media formats, ensuring all outputs align with brand guidelines, technical standards, and creative vision. Your keen eye for detail, strong design skills, and understanding of digital and print production processes will be essential, with basic video editing skills considered an advantage.
Essential Functions and Major responsibilities:
- Design & Adaptation: Create and adapt marketing assets for all division and regional teams as required, in line with brand guidelines. This will include resizing, technical/format adjustments, and creative variants for testing.
- Production: Prepare designs for print and digital outputs, ensuring all artwork is press-ready, technically accurate, and aligned with brand standards.
- Localisation: Working with the Localisation Manager and regional marketing teams, create localised assets from global materials that respect cultural nuances while remains true to the brand identity.
- Video & Motion Graphic Support: Assist in basic video editing tasks, including resizing, formatting, and adding subtitles and captions. Provide simple animations or motion graphics for digital campaigns when needed.
- Collaboration: Work closely with marketing and brand design teams to interpret briefs, understand requirements, and support the execution of creative concepts and requests, offering suggestions to maximise impact.
- Work Coordination: Manage your workload across multiple projects, ensuring timely delivery while maintaining a high standard of quality
- Quality Control: Proof and review final materials before release, ensuring high quality, accuracy, and that all files are optimised for their intended use.
- Technical Expertise: Act as a resource for the division and regional teams on production best practices, advising on appropriate formats, file sizes, colour models, and other technical aspects.
- Asset Management: Organise and maintain design files and libraries, ensuring assets are correctly labelled, archived, and easily accessible to the team
Skills and experience required:
- Minimum 2 years' experience in a similar role within a design studio, advertising agency, or in-house creative team.
- Technical Proficiency:
- Advanced in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
- Knowledge of file formats and colour models (CMYK, RGB, Pantone), image retouching, and layout best practices.
- Familiarity with digital asset management tools and production processes.
- Strong focus on quality assurance
- Demonstrable understanding of layout, colour, typography, and design principles with an eye for detail.
- Experience interpreting and adhering to brand guidelines, ensuring consistency across all creative assets.
- Experience adapting creative assets for multiple global markets, with sensitivity to cultural nuances.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Proven ability to handle multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work within tight deadlines
Desirable Skills and Experience:
- Experience with animation or video editing software (e.g., After Effects, Premiere Pro)
- Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
- Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Wrike, Trello, or similar)
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary team with designers and marketeers
About Us
Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity - ‘we make music easy to make'.
The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.
Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For'.
The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.
Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, Health Cash Plan, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.
