Junior Designer

Team: Production
Location: London or Manchester 

Mission

To deliver innovative, high-quality design across FlightStory’s original IP, products, campaigns, brand partnerships, and assets with speed, accuracy, and creative flair.

As Junior Designer, your job is to turn briefs into instinctive and beautifully crafted assets that move the needle and meet the highest design standards. You’ll support the team cross-functionally, across multiple formats, from social to decks to motion-prep files. You’ll be highly confident in using and learning AI design tools that help us work smarter and faster every day.

Outcomes

High-Quality Asset Creation Across Platforms

• Consistently deliver polished assets across social, YouTube, decks, presentations, optimised for the platform and aligned to brand. 
• Adapt and roll out existing creative concepts into final artwork files. 
• Prepare design files correctly for video and animation handoffs

Fast, Flexible Creative Support for Campaigns and Shows

• Support the Creative and Commercial Teams with fast-turnaround visuals, decks, mock-ups, and brand partner assets. 
• Deliver editable templates, visuals, and production-ready files with speed and precision. Be proactive about solving design problems with clear, simple visual thinking.

AI-Enabled Design Workflow Contribution

• Use AI tools like Figma AI, Midjourney, Firefly, and Runway to support the team in creating assets faster and smarter. 
• Learn and apply FlightStory’s AI-enabled systems for thumbnails, templates, mock-ups, and visual iterations. 
• Identify and suggest ways AI could help increase speed or creative options in the day-to-day workflow.

Competencies

Executional Excellence

• Strong attention to detail able to produce clean, accurate, high quality work fast. 
• Skilled at layout, typography, colour, and adapting to brand guidelines across multiple formats.

Platform Awareness

• Understands the basic design requirements of key content platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn). 
• Designs with the viewer in mind whether it’s a YouTube thumbnail, TikTok post, or sponsor slide.

AI Curiosity & Application

• Willing to learn and actively use AI design tools to boost creativity and efficiency. 
• Understands how to experiment with prompts and variations to support fast visual exploration.

Coachability

• Takes feedback well and applies it quickly and constructively. 
• Always looking for the one percents, wants to learn from more senior creatives and improve with every brief.

Collaboration & Communication

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced team where priorities shift quickly. 
• Keeps stakeholders informed, asks smart questions, and communicates clearly.
  

What Success Looks Like

• FlightStory’s creative output is faster, sharper, and more consistent because of your contributions. 
• Design files are accurate, beautifully crafted, and always delivered on time. 
• Senior creatives trust you to handle key artwork rollouts and edits without needing rework. 
• You actively use AI to enhance your work, explore options, and improve turnaround time. 
• You’re learning fast, growing your skills, and becoming an indispensable part of the design team. 
• Internal teams see you as reliable, calm under pressure, and always delivering to a high standard.
  

You’ll Thrive Here If You:

Love getting stuck in. You enjoy rolling up your sleeves and turning ideas into polished visual assets fast.

Want to learn. You’re curious, coachable, and excited to grow under experienced designers.

Embrace AI as a creative tool. You’re experimenting with new platforms and using them to level up your work.

Take pride in the craft. Whether it’s a thumbnail or a keynote deck, you want every detail to be on point.

Keep calm under pressure. You can handle quick turnarounds and shifting priorities with clarity and focus.

Care about the mission. You want to help build something meaningful and you believe design plays a key role in that.

Location 

• London, Shoreditch OR Manchester ~ we are an in-person-first culture and believe in fostering a vibrant and work environment centred around connection and community.
• Some roles will require global travel so flexibility in this aspect is important and your hiring manager will confirm this with you during the interview process

Process

• Screening Process - Our screening process is designed to assess candidates in a fair way. This gives you an opportunity to share your skill, experience and passion.
• Phone Call with the Talent Team - You will share a call with our talent team who will answer any questions you have about the role, our business and any next steps.
• 1st Interview - This first stage will involve meeting your potential manager and team members.
• 2nd Stage Interview - Task - Through the task round you get an insight into the day to day responsibilities of the role and we get the opportunity to understand how you work.
• Final Stage Interview - The final interview involves meeting a Senior Stakeholder in the business.