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Conceptual Creative and Designer
What is day-to-day life like as a Conceptual Creative & Designer what are the main responsibilities, and what skills do you need to excel?
We chatted to Elle Benfield who is a Conceptual Creative and Designer at Mighty Social to shine light on what day-to-day life is like in her role.
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Role Profile
As a Conceptual creative and designer, it will be your job to create enganging visuals therefore it is important that you are creative. Also you must be able to work well with others when trying to come up with new ideas and understanding what the client wants. You'll work on a range of different products which can include the creation of websites and essentially giving an organisation a face visually. You'll have to develop briefs which are tailored to the clients needed.
Key responsibilities
Meeting clients or account managers to discuss the business objectives and requirements of the job
Give clients an accurate preditction of when the a project will be finalised and ready
Creating a brief that is tailored to the clients needs
Produce new interesting concepts when developing interactive design
Being creative when designing a brief for clients whilst considering deadlines
Give credit to illustrators and photographers and commisioning other workers who assisted on the project
Being able to present and explain your work to clients and to co workers
Requirements
Excellent presentation skills when convey briefs to clients
Good communications skills when liasing with client and co-workers in other departments
Be friendly and social when working in a team to ensure a healthy working environement
Time management skills when managing different projects
A social approach when trying to build network and contacts
Be intuitive when being able to anticipate a problem that may effect a projects completion time
Previous web desgin experieince is an advantage when compared to other applicants for example HTML5 and WordPress