Digital UI Designer

The Opportunity

The MTM Agency is fully integrated marketing and digital agency, growing by over 25% in the last year and privileged to work with leading global entities, such as Airbus, INEOS and several yachting and luxury brands.

The successful applicant for this role will sit as a key member of both the digital and creative teams, responsible for defining the visual direction of our client’s digital presences and related applications, shaping their online identities, and helping them achieve their strategic and operational goals through exciting and considered executions.

You will work directly with MTM’s strategists, front-end specialists, account managers and project managers to understand the opportunities a brief presents, leading the design process to ensure creativity is combined with solid UI to produce digital products that look modern and dynamic, whilst performing in line with industry best practice.

From wireframing through to interactive prototypes, you will be empowered to own your domain, considering other channels and activities to maximise impact and value. The right applicant will be driven by a thirst for newness, with a desire to do things differently and leverage opportunities across frontend technologies as they emerge. You’ll be a team player, collaborative and keen to share your experience whenever relevant.

The MTM Agency works across both B2B and B2C markets, with clients in marine, technology, energy and membership. We create responsive, innovative and stunning digital experiences and marry our digital expertise with specialist teams across PR, brand, film and animation, and social.

We offer a flat structure and a supportive and relaxed culture, empowering our team members with flexibility to work around their lives wherever possible. We support flexible working, with the ability to work from home up to two days a week.

Essential Skills

• Talented digital designer with a unique perspective and experience creating digital products across multiple design aesthetics
• A keen interest in design and the digital industry, leveraging new opportunities
• 3+ years’ experience within a digital agency and/or a professional digital design qualification
• Excellent prototyping experience and an obsession with usability
• Strong UI experience with a mobile-first mentality
• UX design and processes
• Excellent knowledge and experience of using tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, full Adobe suite and more

Bonus experience

• Email design
• Print design (InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator)
• Motion Graphics/Animation and Video design
• Copywriting skills

Job Responsibilities

• Designing new digital products and applications
• Wireframing and prototyping
• Ability to articulate ideas visually as concepts, mood boards and wireframes.
• Presenting design ideas to internal teams and potentially external clients
• To understand clients’ brands’ unique opportunities and challenges, working within brand guidelines and translating their frameworks into digital products that inspire behavioural change
• Be willing to perform or consume the necessary research to understand a brand and its audiences and an ability to translate your understanding into better digital outcomes.
• Work collaboratively and closely with relevant team members and external resources
• To understand good typography and have a good level of grammar
• Be able to manage multiple projects within agreed timescales under pressure
• Be a good communicator and an ability to ‘sell’ your ideas’
• Be organised, commercially minded and a team player

Benefits

We give everyone who works at MTM the opportunity to make their own decisions and grow with us, carving their own path. We want you to challenge, question and speak up. We offer flexible working, and, most importantly, we believe in trusting our team, supporting each other and all our endeavours.

We’re an agile bunch so it’s a fast-moving, exciting environment that isn’t for everyone but if you can keep up, you’ll see the rewards and be motivated to new levels.

Flexible working means a mixture of working at home or in the office (when we can) in our open-plan studio with free parking based on the waterside in Southampton. We’re happy to talk about your individual circumstances and if there anything you need to make your life a bit easier...if it works for the business, it’s generally fine with us.

We give all our clients, large and small the same level of care and attention and it’s why we keep our clients for 3x industry averages. Check out www.recommendedagencies.com to see what we mean.

Our Investment in You

You're serious about producing the very best, so we make sure you're equipped to do it. You'll be provided with what you need to maximise your potential. Just tell us what works for you.

You're trusting us with the next phase in your career - so we're trusting you to work in the manner that works best for you. - we'll work with you to find a routine that works.

We do things properly. We have an excellent agency reputation and are trusted by some of the largest and most respected organisations in the world. We expect you to be at the top of your game and represent us to the best of your ability when working directly with clients.

We have a growing team with very low staff turnover. Testament perhaps to our investment in and care for our team, it means that our team grows together. You'll work alongside some amazingly talented colleagues who will help you progress, and you will enjoy sharing your experience to help others. We also provide an annual budget to help you up-skill.

We care, we're an ethically minded agency and operate in a way that not only helps our business, but helps others do good; whether that's other businesses, charities or organisations. We hope you think in a similar way.

Your Next Step

If this is you and you like what you have read, we would like to hear from you. To find out more about The MTM Agency email your CV with a covering letter to [email protected]

Expected start date: ASAP

Salary: £25,000.00-£45,000.00 per year DOE