Work.Life is a flex workspace provider for businesses who care about people.

We believe that happy teams deliver measurable benefits for businesses. That’s why everything we do, from workspace design to delivering a best-in-class personal service, is designed to create happy working environments. We have shared workspaces across London, Reading and Manchester; with 7,000+ members; and an amazing team of nearly 70 work.lifers who share our ambition to redefine the workspace experience for the better.

Your Role

You'll be responsible for delivering the creative direction & execution of the Work.Life brand across all visual communications, in partnership with colleagues in the Marketing team.

Primarily supporting the commercial and marketing function of the business with market-leading graphic & visual design assets to deliver against strategic goals. You will deliver quality design that speaks to our audience and reflects the company’s values, mission and Brand DNA while ensuring consistency across all touch points.

As the sole in-house designer, you'll also be responsible supporting the wider business with design requests.

Key priorities for your first few months

Design assets delivered to a high standard and on time

Consistent brand messaging and design aesthetic across all brand touchpoints

Impact on our brand KPIs through contribution towards brand campaigns, and brand guardianship of all customer facing collateral.

Your Day to Day Responsibilities

·       Take a lead design role, executing the work yourself, for the brand across all channels including Social, Display, Email, Print, Merchandise and Outdoor. The list is not exhaustive, and the marketing mix is likely to expand over time. 

·       Working closely with the marketing team on the production of creative campaigns from conception through to media delivery.

·       Manage internal design requests, taking briefs, communicating delivery timelines and delivering design assets

·       Keep relevant touchpoints up to date (Canva, Sharepoint) to enable the wider team to create great design for their spaces and functions

·       Work with the senior brand marketing manager to manage and partner with relevant external creatives/agencies to deliver agreed campaign assets

How you'll measure success

Role Competencies

• Accountability: You own your role. You take responsibility for actions and outcomes, proactively anticipating and overcoming obstacles, and you seek out opportunities to consistently to move things forward. You take the wheel when it comes to your KPIs and Rocks and hold yourself to a high standard.

  • Prioritisation: You make sure you know what’s most important at any given time, and manage your time and resources to maximise your impact. You take the lead in establishing your own priorities, and following them up. You balance multiple responsibilities, make informed decisions, and adjust priorities as needed to meet deadlines and objectives.

  • Initiative: You seek out opportunities to make an impact, rather than waiting for things to come to you. You never ‘walk past a problem’ – you make it your problem. You are known for your ‘can do’ and resourceful approach to things.

  • People Smarts (EQ): You are a positive influence & role model to those around you - taking ownership of how you show up, interact, and impact on others, and understand the importance of this. You communicate with empathy, adaptability & positivity.

  • Technical Skills: You’ll have advanced Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign skills & experience with project management platforms (Asana, ClickUp, Motion etc.); proven experience creating design assets for online & offline channels (including large format OOH) and an ability to liaise with media owners on making sure our creative looks as strong as possible in the "wild". Ideally, you’ll have basic animation / motion design skills, but this is not mandatory.

  • Creativity: You’ll have a great ability to translate the brand identity across visual touchpoints in creative, unique ways. Always elevating the brand to creative a connection with our audience.

Living Our Values

• Bring the spark - You lift the mood in the room – celebrating success often & tackling problems & opportunities with positivity

  • It's personal! You’re driven to get to know people and their challenges, tailoring your ideas and solutions to give a personal approach

  • Welcome to Work.Life (WTWL) - You actively seek out ideas & opinions different to your own and incorporate them into your plans

  • We don't stop at good - You’re always seeking opportunities to improve and sharing ideas to make Work.Life an even better place to work

  • Team 1st - You’ll support other teams & spaces, take an interest in their work, and give & receive feedback day-to-day to help each other improve

£30,000 - £35,000 a year

Salary Range £30,000 - £35,000 FTE: Pro rated to 4 days or equivalent at £24,000-£28,000.

Emma Baldwin, Senior Brand Marketing Manager is the hiring manager for this role.

The interview process will consist of an initial short zoom screening call with our Head of People, to find out more about the role; followed by two face to face stages in one of our gorgeous coworking spaces.

At the first, we'll discuss your career story in detail; and at the final, focus stage we'll share a brief for you to prepare in advance. We'll always leave plenty of time for questions from you & discussion around the role.

At Work.Life, we’re committed to providing an inclusive environment for our team and our members, as we believe that diversity fuels a more innovative, creative, and caring culture. Creating equal opportunities matters to us.

Everyone who applies to Work.Life will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, family or parental status, or disability status. We’re excited to hear from you.