Graphic Designer

Rival is looking for a Midweight Graphic Designer to join our newly-formed London-based design team.

As a Midweight Designer you will play an exciting role in shaping strategically-informed, stand-out creative, working across brand identity, campaigns and design projects for ambitious clients. You’ll be part of Rival’s brand-new Design Department – a space where ideas come to life and where design has the power to change how brands think and act. This is a unique opportunity to create visual identities and campaigns for ambitious start-ups and global challengers alike, helping brands do things differently.

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Role

Our designers are the thinkers and makers who bring ideas to life.

• You will spend most of your time creating, owning and delivering outstanding design work for clients.
  
• You will design and build distinctive visual identities, brand systems, campaigns, and collateral across print and digital.
  
• You will collaborate with the design team, strategists, other members of the team and clients to deliver work that is both strategic and creatively original.
  
• You will present your ideas and concepts confidently, bringing people on the journey.
  
• You will take ownership of your work, iterating on feedback to push your design craft further.
  
• You will play a part in shaping Rival’s new Design Department, setting high standards for creativity, originality, and craft.

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Requirements

We’d like to hear from you if…

• You have significant professional experience (at least 5+ years) working in design studios.
  
• You’re culturally aware, with a keen eye on branding and design trends.
  
• You have a strong grasp of typography, colour, composition, illustration, iconography, and art direction.
  
• You’re fluent in Figma, Adobe CC and Google Workspace.
  
• You’re confident in generating ideas and articulating them visually and verbally.
  
• You understand UI/UX principles and digital design practices.
  
• You’re highly creative, detail-oriented, and passionate about design craft.
  
• You’re collaborative, curious, proactive, adaptable, and eager to learn.
  
  

We would be particularly excited if…

• You bring additional skills like motion/animation or web development (though not essential).
  
• You love branding with a concept behind it and have a strong point of view on what makes brands stand out.

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How to apply…

If you’d like to apply, please use the “apply button” below. Alongside sharing your CV, we’d like you to please do the following:

Highlight a challenger brand you think is crushing it. You just need to write “CHALLENGER BRAND: X” and a few sentences on why you think they are interesting from a marketing perspective.

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Compensation

• Our compensation philosophy is to “mid-market base, top-market upside”. As a start-up we can’t compete with big agency/consultancy salaries, but we offer everyone the opportunity to share in the upside of what we’re building together.
• There are three components to our compensation package
  
  • Base Salary - market average for marketing consultancy/agency
  • Profit Share - eligibility for a profit share distribution twice a year (after one year of employment) based on company and individual performance
  • Employee Liquidity Plan -  eligibility for our “shadow stock” plan (after one year of employment)

Benefits

• Group Life Insurance and Group Income Protection
• Automatic enrolment into our pension scheme from day one
• 32-days vacation days for UK employees + public holidays
  
  • 25 discretionary vacation days
  • 7 company recharge days (company-wide days off throughout the year to relax and focus on family, friends and ourselves)
• Profit Share and Rival Employee Liquidity Plan (ELP)
  
  • ELP aka “shadow stock” has all the financial benefits of options, but without the cost to exercise and tax implications
• Office-first but flexible working environment
  
  • Our default policy is for everyone to be in the office two - three days per week (currently Tues/Thurs with Wednesday highly encouraged). We believe in and have seen the impact of in-person collaboration on our work, culture, and development. However, we hire grown ups and trust people to manage their time and schedule. We understand there will be exceptions to the default rule, as long as we’re all focused on what’s best for the team.
• The equipment and technology you need to be successful, plus additional support if you need to enhance your work from home set-up
• Quarterly ‘Team Weeks’
  
  • One week a quarter we focus on planning, team building, and professional development. This can involve the opportunity to travel to other offices.  
• Rival Retreat
  
  • Every once in a while we’ll turn a Team Week into a Rival Retreat, which is a full-company, all-expense paid trip to spend a week together in a fun location
• Various surprise and delights & Rival events throughout the year.

About Rival

Rival is a marketing consultancy for challengers. We believe incumbent best practices lead to average results. We use the playbook of challenger brands to deliver outsized impact for CMOs who need to do more with less.

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Our Hiring Ethos

We want to build a home for the world’s best marketing talent while advancing diversity in our industry. Hiring is the most important thing we do at Rival. Finding and attracting the best talent in the industry is key to our long-term success and day-to-day happiness, but it’s also the most direct way we can have an impact on driving positive change in our industry and for our clients.

Our goal is to deliver a best-in-class interview experience for candidates:

• Upfront alignment on what good looks like
• We compensate candidates time for any interview that requires a task
• Timely, respectful communication
• Opportunity for all candidates to provide feedback
• All employees undergo unconscious bias training
• Global Equality Collective membership to upskill ourselves in all aspects of hiring

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Rival, we're invested in a thoughtful, long-term hiring approach that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. We care about creating a global community with a combined mission, but not at the expense of losing individual identity, which is critical to our innovation. It’s essential that we bring our authentic self to work every day, no matter our age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, or otherwise.

We listen to our employees, take direction and are taking continual action to better ourselves in this mission. Inclusion isn't just an initiative at Rival. We strive to embed it into all aspects of our business model and how we operate.