Midweight Graphic Designer

Location: Central London - hybrid (3 days in the office, 2 from home)
Contract: Full time, permanent Salary: £36,000 – £44,000 depending on experience
Reports to: Creative Director
Start: September - October 2026

About us

We Are Your Friends is a London design agency that builds brands and designs ad campaigns for the live music industry. We make the assets that sells shows, tours, festivals, venues, comedy, & spoken word, for promoters and producers.

Our work goes out fast and it goes out everywhere: social media, OOH, press ads, posters on the underground, & campaign identities that have to hold up from a digital crop to a six-sheet. We're a small startup, which means the work you do here you'll see out in the wild within days of finishing.

The role

On a day to day you'll be taking briefs from the account and creative leads and running them through to delivery across campaign identity, tour artwork, poster design and digital assets.

This is a craft role first. We care most about how you handle type, how you build a layout, and whether you can make an artist's image and a promoter's information co-exist on a page without one championing the other.

What you'll be doing

Designing show and tour campaign artwork across digital and print
Poster design from headline tour art through to venue and festival collateral
Building out campaigns into full asset suites (socials, OOH, press, print & web)
Contributing to brand identity work for venues, festivals and promoters
Preparing artwork for print and working with printers and media partners on specs
Presenting your work to key stakeholders internally and client facing
Working to tight deadlines
Maintain accurate and up to date timesheets

What we're looking for

Essential

3–5 years' commercial design experience, agency or in-house
Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite specifically Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to a professional standard
A genuinely strong eye for typography: you can set type well, and you can say why it works
Confident with layout, hierarchy and composition across very different formats
Solid understanding of colour theory and colour management. You know the difference between something that looks good on your screen and something that prints
Comfortable across both digital and print, and able to move between the two in a day
Experience of brand and identity work, not just artwork execution
Able to present and explain your thinking and turn it around quickly
Reliable with deadlines and organised with your own workload
Comfortable using AI tools in a production workflow i.e. masking, retouching, upscaling.

Nice to have

Motion, animation or video editing (After Effects, Premiere)
Web and digital product design (Figma, Webflow) useful but not expected
Experience in or around the music, festival or live events industry
Understanding of print production and artwork specs for outdoor and press

What we offer

£36,000 – £44,000 depending on experience
28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Hybrid working - 3 days a week in the office (Tue - Thu)
Pension: auto-enrolment after 3 months, contributions matched up to 5%
Personal development budget for training, conferences and software
Guestlist and tickets across our clients' shows (dependant on client approval)

How to apply

Send your CV and portfolio (PDF or link) with Midweight Designer in the subject line.

We review applications on a rolling basis and aim to reply to everyone.

We Are Your Friends is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone and are happy to make adjustments to the process, just let us know what would help.

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