Conceptual Creative & 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.

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- 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

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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

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