Digital Designer

As Digital Designer you will be a key member of the digital design team within the Creative Content department, delivering creative, social-first assets for Harrods social media channels and mobile-first editorial layouts for the Harrods app.

You will help the team to produce engaging social content that is on-the-beat of platform trends, whilst maintaining the Harrods brand identity and a luxury aesthetic. You will carry the brand’s visual identity through to refined editorial app layouts, that are also innovative within the boundaries of the CMS

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. Reporting to the Digital Creative Lead, the Digital Designer is a key member of the Digital Design team within the Creative Content department.

About you

To excel in this role you'll have the following experiences and knowledge.

• Produce creative and designed assets for a multitude of platforms, such as organic and paid social, as well as business departments, from fashion to fine jewellery to food.
• Work with the design team’s creative templates to produce high-quality Instagram story designs week-on-week across Harrods’ four Instagram accounts.
• Have a great eye for typography, layouts and an attention to detail.
• A flare for creative story-telling and experience creating engaging and ‘thumb-stopping’ social media content.
• Have knowledge of the social media landscape and be regularly consuming social content to remain up-to-date with trends and applying this in the form of referencing.
• Have an understanding of responsive design and previous experience working with a CMS. 
• Good working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop and After Effects. Illustrator and Premier are a plus.
• Some experience creating social media (Instagram/TikTok) videos and content, even for personal projects, would be a bonus. 

Our promise to you

We pride ourselves on challenging conventional thinking and making the impossible possible. If you share our positive and creative 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 in store 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.