Title: Graphic Designer

Base Salary: £36,000 - £40,000 (Negotiable DOE)

Location: Cambridge, UK

Work Structure: Hybrid between 1-2 days onsite weekly, full flexibility

Overview:

Endomag is the global technology company that believes everyone deserves a better standard of cancer care. Many of the world’s leading physicians and hospitals use our magnetic-based technologies to help women with breast cancer avoid surgery when it isn’t needed, and experience better outcomes when it is. Using our Sentimag® probe, physicians are able to accurately stage breast cancer with our Magtrace® lymphatic tracer and perform tissue localisation procedures with our Magseed® marker.

So far, our team has helped over 450,000 women around the world access more precise and less invasive breast cancer care. Now, we’re looking for a Digital Designer to help us continue to deliver on our promise and play a critical role in our Marketing team. If you are passionate about improving cancer care around the world and have the skills to help us make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.

The purpose of the role:

We're currently seeking a passionate, optimistic, and imaginative individual to fill a crucial position in the marketing team as a mid-weight Graphic Designer. The individual must have a solid understanding of core design principles and proven experience in designing for both print and digital output.

The individual will work closely with the current Graphic Designer and wider creative team, contributing to both large and small projects, delivering designs of an exceptional standard that answer briefs and contribute to the success of wider marketing objectives.

At Endomag, design and brand are integral to our aspirations as a rapidly growing med-tech scale-up organisation. We consider ourselves to be ‘design disruptors’ in the marketplace and our efforts impact directly on the success of our market development and sales teams.

Our commitment to high-quality design across the organisation is what sets us apart from our competitors and is representative of two of our core values – ‘precision’ and ‘focus’. Now, we're on the lookout for a talented designer to help continue to deliver high quality marketing outputs.

In this collaborative role, you'll work closely with our existing Graphic Designer, sharing workloads and exchanging ideas to bring your creative vision to life across various print and digital disciplines.

From designing assets for new product launches and campaigns to the day to day design and marketing requests, your role could include anything from designing brochures and flyers to designing engaging graphics for websites, online advertising, social media, presentations, and event materials.

You will also be expected to contribute towards concept development projects and help to translate these ideas into visual design systems. You will also be expected to help implement our brand guidelines across all media. The impact you’ll have will be diverse and significant and a great opportunity to work on a wide range of projects.

Endomag is fully Apple/ Mac-based, ensuring you have the right tools for the job. Our current working practises involve the use of Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) and extensively using Figma (ad-hoc or formal training can be provided if required).

Key Responsibilities and duties:

• To create well designed and considered marketing materials that adhere to our brand guidelines, for both print and digital media, e.g. brand collateral, brochures, posters, flyers, leaflets, invitations, documents, adverts, events collateral, presentations (print and digital), webpages, social posts, web/ email/ blog graphics)  
• Concept development and implementation i.e. thinking/ rationale, translate into design system 
• Static video storyboarding, have an understanding of the importance and application of motion graphics 
• To implement brand guidelines in all design work, to act as a brand guardian and to aid in further development of the Endomag brand 

Requirements

Qualifications

·         Degree in graphic design, design, or a relevant field (not mandatory)

Experience and Knowledge

• Preferably, a minimum of 5+ years of experience in an agency or in-house, particularly with product-based or technology-based clients (though all exceptional portfolios are appreciated)

• Solid understanding of the basic principles of graphic design, is essential (Alignment, Repetition, Contrast, Hierarchy, Balance with Symmetry, Balance with Tension) 
• Solid understanding of printed output, CMYK vs RGB, linking files, collating files, exporting files, file types, file sizes, resolutions (effective PPI, actual PPI) etc 
• Solid understanding of digital output – understanding of layouts, appropriate file sizes and resolutions for the web/email (e.g., JPG vs. PNG usage, 'save for web' functionality, awareness of file-size optimization, considerations for retina displays, and knowledge of common digital resolutions and ratios such as 16:9 / 1920x1080) 

• Technological proficiency is preferred 
• Understand the value of brand and some experience in brand design/ development 

Abilities and Skills

• Passionate, optimistic, empathetic, imaginative, curious, progressive
• Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud, in particular InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
• Familiarity with Figma (or equivalent transferable skills like Adobe XD)
• Familiarity with PowerPoint, Keynote & Google Slides
• Ability to manipulate and retouch imagery
• Ability to create simple GIFs
• Ability to interpret and implement brand guidelines
• Strong decision-making skills and effective communicator
• Willingness and ability to collaborate and learn

Benefits

Pension: Non-contributory pension scheme, Endomagnetics contribute 9% of base salary, the employee contribution is discretionary.

Private Medical Insurance: For you and family.

Dental insurance: For you and your family.

Employee Assistance Programme: For you and your family (includes access to a virtual GP)

Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme: payments up to 10% of salary.

Life Assurance: Death in service benefit (4x base salary).

Additional Health: Company eye tests and flu vaccinations.

Holiday: 25 days annual leave.

Your birthday Off: 1 day of paid leave per year for your birthday.

Annual Leave Buy Scheme: purchase up to 5 five days leave, in addition to your usual annual leave allowance.

Volunteering Leave: 2 days of paid leave per year for you to volunteer for a charity.

Paid Time Off for Dependents: 2 days of paid leave per year to deal with an emergency relating to your dependents.

Paid Time Off for a Domestic Emergency: 2 days of paid leave per year if you need to deal with a domestic emergency.

Maternity and Paternity: Enhanced maternity and paternity leave package.

Group Income Protection: Up to 75% of salary for periods of long-term sickness absence.

Environment: Pleasant working environment including a wellness room, spacious break out and lunch area with quality coffee and fresh fruit.

Facilities and Access: Vehicle and cycle parking. Positioned within easy walking distance to Cambridge North Rail Station.

This role is available to individuals who have the right to work in the UK without support or sponsorship.