Digital Designer - #148736

About The Role

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Digital Designer looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

Are you ready to be part of a dynamic and innovative team that delivers exceptional digital experiences? Our Creative Services team is on the lookout for a talented creative Digital Designer to join us. You will specialise in crafting visual designs and communication materials that captivate and engage our audiences. You'll be at the forefront of designing, developing, and maintaining our websites and digital marketing materials. You'll create eye-catching digital assets for multimedia and graphics projects, including websites, mobile apps, advertising, emails, and social media. If you have a passion for stunning digital content and want to elevate our brand, we want to hear from you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborating with stakeholders to gain an understanding of the brief, communicating effectively to ensure the design solution aligns with the overall vision
• Working with the Creative Director, designers and marketeers in designing and creating exceptional digital creatives ensuring cohesive brand representation
• Pitching engaging and powerful presentations of creative ideas to stakeholders and senior members of the team
• Contribute to the overall visual digital strategy and user experience of all digital products and services
  
  

About You

What you’ll bring to the team

• Exceptional design and creative skills for all digital channels
• A strong understanding of responsive design and ability to design for multiple platforms, from desktop to mobile, with social media platform-specific knowledge
• Skill in optimisation of designs for specific platforms and knowledge on social media SEO
• Knowledge of web design technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
• Knowledge of user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design principles
  
  

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.

Working hours

37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday - Hybrid role

Inclusion

As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

About Us

What can we offer you?

• Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave
• Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
• Family Friendly policies : We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover
  
  

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.