Content Designer

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of SPARCK. We’re a small, but rapidly growing team, who lead transformation projects with top-tier clients, formulate research and innovation ventures, and collaborate with the brightest minds in digital.

There’s no typical SPARCK project but to give you a flavour, in the last six months we’ve been conducting international customer research, developed AI-driven assistants and embarked on designing a new service to transform the UK medical industry.

With room to shape SPARCK and our clients’ businesses, you’ll get opportunities to hone your Content Design prowess and achieve ambitious career goals.

With a fresh new team, there is no “this is the way it’s always done”. In fact, we expect you to contribute to the direction we take, and maybe lead the practice in the future.

At SPARCK we take pride in acting on ideas. We don’t shelve good thoughts for a rainy day - we get to work on it. We collaborate with our technology partners and parent company BJSS, who we conveniently share the office with.

What we’re looking for

  • You’ll be confident shaping content design projects - drawing from different styles and techniques to craft the best possible outcomes
  • You’ll probably have a background in English, media studies, communications, marketing or have experience of designing structured communications
  • You’ll naturally be sharp in your written English, rightly pedantic in your editing, and rigorous in your pursuit of simplifying complexity
  • You’ll be sensitive to design issues (e.g., whitespace, balance, typography) and be able to create straightforward diagrams and infographics, or work with visual designers to fulfil your content needs
  • You’re pragmatic and hands-on when it comes to turning ideas into reality - using an evolving set of tools and techniques to collaborate with other disciplines to deliver on time
  • You believe in core part that content design plays within Human-Centred Design, holding informed opinions on trends like conversation design, user-generated content, and the increasing importance of video
  • You’ll be able to show off content designs from across different genres and sectors (e.g., government, health, retail, financial services). We expect you’ll probably have some personal content projects on the go too
  • You have a keen awareness of accessibility and inclusiveness issues as they relate to content design
  • Bonus points for experience of Agile methodologies, co-working with clients, user experience designers, researchers, service designers, and the wide range of technical team skills
  • Experience with the government’s GDS service standard and its implications for content design is highly preferable, but not essential.

Responsibilities

  • Design, plan, and lead content design and strategy engagements with clients
  • Develop content strategies to engage and persuade different audiences across multiple channels and formats to the desired outcome
  • Collaborate in producing high-quality user experience outputs such as user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and personas
  • Helping in user research and usability testing to uncover user needs, test your content and continuously iterate ideas and designs, including the ability to read analytics to identify potential content issues
  • Disseminate content design best practices and trends and incorporate into deliverables
  • Design and lead workshops with our clients and present deliverables to senior stakeholders
  • Manage relationships with client stakeholders, communicating frequently, understanding their needs, facilitating workshops, and presenting designs.

We are SPARCK

SPARCK is a Strategic Design Consultancy. We are a diverse group of 50+ researchers, strategists, designers, and innovators across the UK and we are growing fast.

We are part of BJSS, the UK’s leading privately owned technology and business consultancy. This gives us a unique ability to not only design innovative solutions, but deliver them through our award-winning Agile Enterprise approach.

At SPARCK you’ll work with bright, enthusiastic people across all levels of experience and backgrounds, and you’ll learn every day.

Our culture is important and it is essential that you are keen to contribute to make SPARCK a great place to work. Read our Culture Code for more insight: https://sparck.io/our-culture-code/

If you have a curious mind, is fun to work with and have a drive to learn while delivering great outcomes, you will love it here!

Get in touch! We’d love to hear from you!

BJSS and SPARCK are committed to equal opportunities and diversity so we want to ensure that our recruitment and selection processes are fair to all who wish to apply.

We encourage you to feel confident to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to the application or interview process to help support you. You can do this by speaking to your BJSS/SPARCK recruitment contact. Or, if you’re not yet in touch with anyone from our recruitment team, by emailing careers@bjss.com.

Get in touch

If you’d like to know more about this role or have questions about SPARCK, please get in touch.

Dave Black

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Dave Black

Digital Consultant