Digital Content Creator

job description

Are you a confident and capable content creative with an eye for turning apparently ordinary data into engaging stories? Can you take on board a new brand with a successful backstory and translate marketing briefs and brand guidelines into a persuasive and un-missable brand-story? Can you step up and be a key figure in promoting our clients comprehensive product offering to an industry and audience that’s always curious, and is driven by results?
If that sounds like a bit of you, then we should talk. We are excited to be recruiting for a Digital Content Creator to join our clients newly formed, fast growing, brand team.

What we need you to do.
As a Digital Content Creator, you'll be a key figure for our client, leading the creative design element within the product marketing and customer experience departments. Your remit is to build awareness and understanding of the product through engaging content. You’ll also work closely with the exciting new Data Studio, highlighting trends and developing and executing engaging data, content and functionalities across the digital estate. You’ll be targeting both existing subscribers and potential new ones.
To do what’s needed, you’ll be a multi-tasker, ready to roll up your sleeves. We want creative and conceptual thinkers who are good collaborators too.
You should be curious with a passion for data-driven storytelling, with a sharp eye for design and a keen sense of product and user experience. You’ll need to show versatility, refined visual sensibilities and understating of information hierarchies.
Skilled in creating, evolving and working with brand guidelines, you’ll show us a creative flair in interpreting them to visualize data and create impactful work. We also want you to be obsessive about consistency and dedicated to delivering perfection. (Or as close to it as realistically possible.)

Naturally, you will be able to back up all the above by showing us an outstanding online portfolio, with examples of your innovative infographics, data visualizations (both static and interactive/dynamic) and any other content of your choosing.

What might a day in the life of your role look like?

• Designing and developing content for digital channels, primarily the brand website and digital product, supporting sales and marketing activity
• Being the digital design expert; selling digital best practice to key business stakeholders within the Data Studio (and to the wider business)
• Supporting the Data Studio in creating compelling, on-brand data reports and visualizations that inform and engage readers. These will include interactive web pages, static PDFs and charts, visual essays and more — from concept through completion
• Proactively exploring new and innovative visual approaches and techniques for storytelling
• Ensuring all content conforms to industry best practice, is optimized for search and provides a first-class user experience
• Acting as a Quality Assurance professional for the wider marketing teams, performing daily checks on website content – identifying, highlighting and correcting issues as appropriate

The skills and experience you will need.

• Expert knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite
• Significant graphic design experience
• Clear understanding of responsive design, content and conveying complex information in a way that readers can easily digest
• Thorough grounding in UI & UX design principles
• Strong understanding of user-centered design in data visualization and interactivity
• The ability to analyze and interpret complex data from raw sources, either with spreadsheets or database
• Awareness of data visualization design trends
• Awareness of data visualization tools such as D3 or other libraries
• Understanding of current web standards, browser compatibility, HTML 5 and CSS design
• Understanding of CMS systems, ideally WordPress and Elementor
• Understanding of SEO best practice, and tools such as Google Search Console
• Relevant industry experience, ideally in financial services, FinTech or SaaS

The qualities we’re expecting you to have.

• An inquisitive and determined outlook
• The ability to switch between priorities, managing several projects at once in a fast-paced environment
• Problem solving skills through understanding of digital systems and metrics
• The ability to think creatively and deliver clever concepts
• The foresight to put yourself in the user’s shoes
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Excellent collaboration skills
• The ability and flexibility to adapt to and perform well in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.

For a complete spec, please register your interest. We regret only successful candidates will be contacted.