Senior Designer (110767-0925)

For informal enquiries, please contact Nicky Ginns (Creative Services Manager) at N.Ginns@warwick.ac.uk

Senior Graphic Designer – Shape creative ideas and bring our brand to life

We’re looking for a creative force with a flair for brilliant ideas and striking design to join the University of Warwick as our Senior Graphic Designer. You’ll bring concepts to life with bold typography, exciting layouts, and imaginative visualisation that cut through and inspire. Working closely with our Creative Services Managers and the wider creative team, you’ll shape projects from the spark of an idea through to polished delivery, crafting designs that connect with global audiences and drive conversion.

If you thrive on big ideas, creative visual storytelling, and pushing design beyond the expected, we want to hear from you.

Our ideal candidate is a versatile, creative senior graphic designer with excellent communication skills and a keen eye for storytelling, visual craft, and audience engagement. You will be responsible for interpreting client briefs and developing compelling print and digital content from concept through to final delivery, ensuring each project aligns with brand guidelines and achieves strategic goals.

We’re looking for someone who brings enthusiasm, originality, and innovation to every stage of the production process. The successful candidate will be a great team player, thrive in a fast-paced marketing department, and produce high-quality, engaging, and relevant design content for a wide range of platforms and audiences. They will be confident in communicating with clients and stakeholders, and capable of providing constructive feedback to more junior designers within the team to aid their development.

We work flexibly at the University of Warwick, and this is a hybrid position with a minimum of two days in the office each week.

For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description attached as a PDF below.

The University of Warwick is renowned for its world-leading teaching and research, with an absolute commitment to excellence and an ambition to challenge the status quo. We’ve inspired positive change, sparked innovation, and created opportunity across our local community, our region, the country and beyond.

We’re incredibly proud of our global reputation as a centre of excellence for learning and research. And it's our mission to open our doors even wider – to work hand in hand with industry, to connect with academics and partners around the world, to bring opportunity to our region and our country, and to engage students, staff, and communities from all walks of life, all parts of society, and all cultural backgrounds.

You will join a passionate and inspiring team of Marketing, Communications, Insights and Student Recruitment (MCI&SR) professionals. MCI&SR encompasses the following teams:

• Marketing and Student Recruitment
• Brand and Campaign Marketing
• Corporate Communications
• Market Research and Insights
  • Creative & Digital Services
  
  This is a hugely exciting time to join Marketing, Communications, Insights & Student Recruitment. Under the executive of the Chief Communications, Content and Marketing Officer (CCCMO), our refreshed strategy builds on our existing strengths and will take Warwick to new heights. Our department is made up of more than 100 talented and hardworking people, focused on driving student recruitment, commercial marketing, market research and insight, corporate communications, brand and campaigns for the University.

As a department, it is our mission to reach and engage key audiences from around the world – be it prospective students, business and industry, academics and partners, our current staff and students, or visitors to our beautiful campus. Like our University, the MCI&SR department is a place of possibility. We’re a team of do-ers - always looking for new ways to make things happen. We provide a dynamic and supportive environment in which our staff are consistently making an impact - the kind that changes lives, whether close to home or on a global scale.

We are a world-leading research-intensive university founded in 1965. We are ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK. 92% of our research is rated world-leading or internationally excellent.*

Find out more about us on our website.

* QS World University Rankings 2024, Research Excellence Framework 2021

CLOSING DEADLINE: Thursday 16th October 2025 at 23:55

To apply, please click "Apply" below and submit an application form by the closing deadline. You will be asked to include a CV and a cover letter.

Your CV should include:

• Your education and employment history (including your most recent employment).
• Any other relevant experience (e.g. volunteering, extracurricular, etc.).

Your cover letter should explain:

• Your motivations for applying to the role.
• Using examples, how you meet the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the job description (PDF attached below).
• Creative portfolio – Within your cover letter, please submit three examples of your best design work that showcases your creativity. We’d like to see your creative process, from initial concept through to final delivery (PDF or weblink).

All essential criteria must be met by candidates who are invited to interview.

You are welcome to include details of any career breaks (e.g. parental leave, caring responsibilities, sick leave).

For guidance on writing a cover letter, see here. 

• Interview Date: To be confirmed 
• Start Date: As soon as possible 

Please note application forms must be submitted before the stated deadline - you will not be able to submit after 23:55 (even if you opened the form earlier). Only applications submitted via our official careers portal (warwick-careers.tal.net) will be considered.

We provide a comprehensive range of benefits, including:

• An attractive pension scheme.
• 30 days holiday plus University Christmas closure.
• Generous parental/adoption leave policy.
• Onsite childcare facilities.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities.

We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer access to flexible working arrangements. For more information, see here.

We are proud to be a Living Wage employer.

Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion

Warwick is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and respectful community where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities, and actively encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.

Find out more about our Social Inclusion work at Warwick.

Find out more about our awards and accreditations.

We are also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance.

Safeguarding & DBS

The University of Warwick is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we work with.

• Roles involving regulated activity are subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at the appropriate level, in line with the DBS Code of Practice.
• The University will ensure that anyone subject to a barring order does not undertake any work with the barred group (children and/or adults).
• All employees, volunteers, and partners are expected to share our commitment to safeguarding.

Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders

The University will not discriminate against applicants who make a disclosure relating to a conviction.

Disclosures at application stage are only visible to the DBS team, not to hiring panels. This ensures fairness and removes bias from the shortlisting process.