Senior Graphic Designer

Want to combine your passion for travel with your career? Here’s your chance! Come and work for the World’s Largest Student and Youth Travel Company.

Who we are and what we do? STA Travel… the world’s largest student and youth travel company, we’ve been spreading peace, love and adventure since 1979. Back then, we started out with one mission: to create affordable adventures for awesome people. Today, we have stores in over 50 countries, eight head office hubs from London to Melbourne, and together, we help over 2 million travelers a year to Start the Adventure. Oh, and we also live by another rule. Life’s short, work somewhere you love. 

The role:

The Senior Graphic Designer works as part of the global, fast-paced internal Creative Studio team, creating a large and varied number of digital and print based assets to support STA Travel’s products and partnerships in German, (and French).

Working closely with the rest of the creative team (mostly London based), you will have the opportunity to work across, and lead a broad range of projects which should be creatively considered and work seamlessly across all touch points for the STA Travel brand, across mostly digital and print projects. This role focuses on creating, leading and delivering visually compelling design solutions from concept to completion, with a hands-on approach and supporting in other business areas/teams such as Marketing and Content in German (and French) language.

Sounds interesting? Keep on reading to find out more:

 Job responsibilities:

1. Driving creative project results and productive innovative designs and ideas.
2. Reviewing designs and developing new ideas/suggestions to create a better user experience or brand consistency.
3. Management of design campaigns and associated project work.
4. Transfer and adoption of global digital and print designs for German (and French) speaking markets.
5. Staying up to date with youth, visual and print design trends.
6. Making sure that the STA Travel brand is applied consistently and strongly in all areas of design.
7. Supporting the Design Manager in pushing for design thinking, creativity and innovation for the team and developing house rules for brand alignment and check they are followed on design work.
8. Proposing innovative ideas to help develop the brand/team.
9. Ensure excellent timekeeping and design standards are maintained daily by yourself and by other designers. 

Who you are: 

1. Good English knowledge
2. Excellent German (and French as a plus) skills, including spelling and punctuation.
3. Over 6 years professional design experience in a commercial setting.
4. Over 1-year project or people management experience.
5. Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, In-design, typography, graphic layout, strong experience in digital and print production processes and solid experience in email and content design for responsive websites.
6. An inspiring portfolio that shows amazing levels of creativity, a wide variety of styles and demonstrates you can present your work and point of view in an expert and compelling way.
7. Excellent time management / organizational skills, with the ability to think through, plan and priorities tasks to meet tight deadlines.
8. Professional, passionate and pro-active ‘can do’ attitude to your work and keen to continue learning and developing skills at a high level.

Why STA Travel: 

• A culture based on passion and working together;
• The chance to work for a global leader;
• Private health insurance and meal vouchers;
• Global employment opportunities and career progression; continuous training and support to ensure everyone is well prepared and ready to take on job responsibilities