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Magnetic is the UK’s leading innovation and digital design studio. B Corp certified and female-led, we work with startups, governments and organisations in the UK and internationally to create products, services and strategies that drive growth and deliver impact. Our purpose is to design better futures, and we do this by helping people and businesses innovate. Over the past ten years, our partners have included Waitrose, Essex and Dorset Councils, Bupa, Mars Wrigley, Innovate UK, Google, Fulham Football Club and Save The Children.

In 2024, Magnetic joined Newton, combining our design and innovation expertise with Newton’s deep operational experience. Newton is a UK-based consultancy of 600 employees, working across healthcare, government, retail, defence and infrastructure to turn strategic goals into real-world outcomes. Often operating behind the scenes, they play a crucial role in large-scale, multimillion-pound change and transformation programmes. Together with Newton, we share a commitment to delivering lasting impact and value.

​​Most Magnetic Innovation Designers share a common base of skills. They include visual design, Design Thinking, prototyping and the drive to make things happen. More senior people within the organisation bring skills around leadership, coaching, business development, and client empathy. 

​We’ve hired lifetime Designers, people making career changes from industry specialism, and everything in between. We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace - a place where we can all be ourselves. We offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements.

What will you be doing? 

As a member of our design team, you will have good people skills and can help us build a strong design team culture within the business. You will:

• Come up with innovative ideas, solve problems creatively and shape these into logical, coherent solutions that centre around our clients' needs
• Support the design team in setting, communicating and delivering meaningful and exciting design solutions.
• Inspire and work with the team to push their creative, innovative solutions further.
• Help our team improve their thinking and processes to demonstrate our design capability, quality and efficacy.
• Attend, contribute and/or facilitate client workshops - helping interrogate problems, provoke discussion and surface possible solutions to take forward.
• Senior roles will also coach, mentor and develop colleagues to improve their hard and soft skills and inspire them to new creative heights.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for Innovation Designers with sufficient experience in concept design who are able to support or lead on digital projects and are efficient in the following:

• Experienced in design thinking, we are looking for someone who is familiar with and has used this process 
• An expert in software & hard skills (Illustrator, Figma, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects). Senior Designers have the ability to coach and develop the other designers’ abilities in this area.
• A well-rounded designer capable of turning their hand to a variety of design disciplines – graphic, UX/UI, prototyping, service design, and video editing.
• A problem solver who can bring to life ideas that challenge the ordinary, together with the drive to create concepts and prototypes.
• Able to help us showcase our design work through storytelling and case studies
• Excellent communication and strong self-organisational skills

What we offer

We make sure our team is well looked after with generous salaries and a great benefits package, which includes:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Group Life Assurance
• Income protection
• Enhanced pension with employer contribution of up to 4% of your salary
• Membership in our management bonus scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Cycle to work
• Gender-neutral parental leave

In addition, to ensure that everyone has enough time to rest and recharge, we give all our employees:

• 25 days of annual leave per calendar year (increasing by a day for every two years served)
• 3-day Christmas shutdown period
• 8 bank holidays (please note these can be repurposed in line with your religious beliefs)
• An additional ‘Magnetic’ bank holiday day

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace - a place where we can all be ourselves. We offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements.