Digital Designer

We’ve a fantastic opportunity for a Digital Designer with experience in ecommerce to take that next step within one of the world’s biggest retail brands. You’ll create and publish high quality creative executions across al content pages for your responsive website, harrods.com. This will include Store/Service/Events/Restaurant pages, Brand pages, Product detail pages, Promotions, Campaigns, as well as Boutiques. You’ll create design that respond beautifully to all devices whilst demonstrating a user-centric approach, by ensuring all digital creative & front-end content is on brand, accessible and meets best practice standards. You’ll be responsible for taking briefs, working up initial visuals (using Sketch) for project team review, take on feedback and make amends all the way through for the preparation of assets for publishing onto the site.

About Us

As the world’s luxury emporium, we deliver a magical, memorable experience for customers. This makes us uniquely challenging for creative minds, to protect and grow our brand demands extraordinary composure, creativity and commerciality. Harrods’ global brand offers uniquely exciting challenges, and we nurture a supportive environment where creativity, resilience and commercial awareness make anything possible.

You'll work closely with the Digital Team Lead and Lead Designers to ensure our site reflects our brand values as well as aligning to our design and visual direction guidelines. You’ll be working on content updates across the site, from visuals through to production using our existing module library and publishing content via our Content Management System (CMS).

About You

You’ll be passionate about delivering creative solutions that deliver for both the user and the business. You’ll have outstanding creative and graphic design skills with the ability to demonstrate clear understanding of brand identity ideally within the luxury market. With an ability to meet stringent deadlines within a fast-paced environment, you’ll have previous proven experience working in a web design role within a retail E-commerce environment, luxury brand or online editorial. To make an immediate impact in the role, you’ll also:

• Must have an understanding and appreciation of designing to accessibility and usability standards.
• Fluent in Sketch, the Adobe Creative Suite; Photoshop, Illustrator and In-design.
• Sound understanding of cross browser, SEO, accessibility and usability design for the web.
• Experience of using a CMS to upload and manage content.

Our Promise to You

We pride ourselves on challenging conventional thinking and making the impossible possible. If you share our positive approach, this is a career move that will open doors for you. You’ll gain experience across the business while working at the heart of a fast-paced and prestigious team.

We’ll also take care of your long-term career progress, whether your ambitions take you upwards, or sideways into different areas of the business. Our benefits package gives you generous pension and life insurance, up to 33% discount on instore shopping and 50% off work clothes, 25 days’ holiday and your birthday off.

Uniquely You

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart.  We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive.  What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

If you want to know more about our people and our culture, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram.