Zinc
Zinc
Zinc provides automated background checks and employment verification for businesses. Its HR technology platform helps companies manage pre-employment screening efficiently, connecting with applicant tracking systems while supporting compliance, security, and a smoother experience for candidates. Zinc’s services are designed to help hiring teams complete thorough checks in hours rather than weeks.

Senior Brand and Creative Lead – London Hybrid

Lead Zinc’s brand growth as it expands its HR and talent acquisition business internationally. Combine hands-on design leadership with scalable systems, campaigns, and creative direction across global markets.

Description

  • Build a distinctive, credible, and consistent Zinc brand as the company expands internationally
  • Apply Zinc’s brand framework and visual toolkit across marketing materials
  • Create scalable brand systems, workflows, and playbooks
  • Design digital and physical materials in Figma and InDesign, including campaigns, social and advertising assets, print materials, event stands, and collateral
  • Partner with Brand and Content, Demand Generation, Lifecycle, and Product Marketing teams
  • Facilitate campaign creative sessions and develop memorable concepts
  • Manage and mentor the web and creative designers, Jenny and Ren
  • Set creative priorities and help develop the team into a high-performing production function
  • Protect a consistent, credible visual identity across new markets
  • Build systems, processes, photography, and collateral that reflect regional and commercial requirements
  • Evaluate progress through brand consistency, creative impact, system development, team growth, international reach, and production speed

Requirements

  • Substantial design experience, ideally within B2B SaaS or a fast-growing company
  • A well-developed point of view on high-quality B2B SaaS brand identity
  • Practical experience producing work across digital and physical formats
  • A record of creating brand systems that scale across varied touchpoints
  • Experience extending brand systems across multiple markets
  • A hands-on player-coach who can lead and develop a team while continuing to design
  • Demonstrated experience establishing scalable brand and creative systems
  • Experience managing people
  • Proficiency in Figma and InDesign, or equivalent Adobe tools
  • Video production or editing skills are advantageous
  • Examples of independently taking work from an initial brief through to launch
  • Confidence working with incomplete briefs, questioning assumptions, and shaping effective solutions
  • Experience designing for audiences that require trust and credibility is advantageous
  • Motion design or advanced prototyping experience is advantageous

Benefits

  • 24 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays and your birthday
  • £1,200 annual benefits allowance through ThanksBen from month two
  • Early finish on Fridays at 16:00
  • Annual company retreat overseas
  • Up to 30 days working from anywhere
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
  • Statutory NEST pension with 3% employer and 5% employee contributions
  • Zinc shares through the EMI scheme
  • Unlimited access to Spill Therapy
  • Company and quarterly team social events
  • Free Monday lunches
  • Yellownest nursery workplace benefit scheme
  • Electric vehicle leasing option through the Electric Car Scheme
  • Zinc anniversary celebrations

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