Goliath

Senior Graphic Designer

Goliath

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Guildford • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • **About the role**
  • Lead on design strategy, ensuring creative output remains current with industry trends, technologies, and competitor’s activity
  • Lead the development and maintenance of cohesive brand visuals across all touchpoints, including the Goliath master brand, individual IPs, and multiple SKUs
  • Interpret briefs from global product design and marketing teams, translating them into clear creative direction and deliverables
  • Own design projects end-to-end, from concept through to final delivery, ensuring quality, consistency, and alignment with brand standards
  • Conceptualise, design, and deliver high-quality creative assets across digital, print, social, marketing campaigns, and presentations
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously, planning and monitoring timelines, budgets, and production schedules through to completion
  • Prepare and manage written briefs and approvals for external suppliers, including artwork, illustration, photography, translations, proofs, and final prints
  • Manage external partners and freelance designers, including coordinating and attending photoshoots in collaboration with marketing teams
  • Analyse supplier quotes, negotiate competitive costs, and identify value-engineering opportunities without compromising creative or brand integrity
  • Work cross-functionally with internal teams including marketing, product development, licensing, design, engineering, and video, ensuring alignment across regions
  • Maintain oversight of project documentation, asset libraries, and cross-office information flow, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and consistency
  • Drive continuous improvement through new initiatives, processes, and ways of working within the department
  • Leadership capability, including mentoring and supporting team members, setting a strong example, and acting as a credible source of guidance and advice
  • Represent the design team professionally in meetings, presentations, and occasional international travel or off-site engagements

Requirements

  • **Qualifications & Experience: **
  • Relevant qualifications in graphic design to university degree level or equivalent
  • Minimum of 5 years’ relative experience working within the creative sector
  • Minimum of **2 years’ demonstrable experience creating consumer marketing assets**
  • Strong awareness of current and emerging design trends
  • Comprehensive understanding of graphic design layout and art direction
  • Strong knowledge of product photography best practice
  • High level of expertise in current graphic design software
  • Excellent understanding of contemporary production techniques
  • First-rate written and verbal communication skills for effective project management
  • **Job Requirements:**
  • Proven ability to work autonomously, take initiative, and own projects end-to-end with minimal direction
  • Proactive, improvement-driven mindset, with the confidence to challenge ways of working and drive new initiatives
  • Strong mastery of brand systems, with the ability to apply them consistently across multiple products, platforms, and touchpoints
  • Advanced graphic design capability across digital and print, underpinned by strong conceptual thinking and creative problem-solving skills
  • Confidence and clarity in presenting, articulating, and defending creative decisions to stakeholders at all levels
  • Highly effective communicator with strong written, verbal, and cross-time zone communication skills, able to collaborate seamlessly with internal teams and external partners
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build and maintain trusted working relationships with colleagues, suppliers, and licensors
  • Excellent time management, planning, and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage high-volume workloads, competing deadlines, and complex production timelines
  • High attention to detail, both creatively and organisationally, including the ability to manage complex documentation and workflows accurately
  • Ability to give and receive constructive feedback, objectively review creative work, and continuously improve personal and team output
  • Experience working within global or multi-market environments, including localisation and regional adaptation
  • Strong understanding of consumer brand marketing, particularly how design supports product positioning and commercial objectives
  • Familiarity with licensing and IP guidelines, especially when working with third-party brands or character-led products
  • Commercial awareness and sound business judgement, with the ability to assess costs, value-engineering opportunities, and broader business impact - understanding how design decisions impact cost, margin, shelf presence, and consumer behaviour
  • Strong business acumen, with the ability to consider the wider commercial, strategic, and organisational context of design and product decisions
  • Hands-on experience in video editing and motion design (desirable)
  • Demonstrable experience and expertise with appropriate software, including, but not limited to:
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • After Effects
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Microsoft PowerPoint / Google Slides
  • Asset management systems
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
graphic designart directionconsumer marketing assetsproduct photographydesign trendsproject managementbrand systemsconceptual thinkingcreative problem-solvingvideo editing
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinterpersonal skillstime managementplanningprioritisationattention to detailconstructive feedbackcollaborationinitiative
Certifications
university degree in graphic design