Senior Digital Designer

Overview

We are looking for a highly creative and strategically minded Digital Designer to join Black Sun. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented designer to create, develop, and deliver compelling digital experiences for a wide range of clients. The role includes responding to creative briefs, shaping user-centered experience design concepts, and ensuring design quality is maintained throughout delivery for our blue-chip clients. You will combine strong visual design skills with digital product thinking and a solid understanding of modern user experience principles. You will be confident designing for responsive websites, campaign experiences, and content-led platforms, with an appreciation of accessibility, usability, AI, and component-based design systems. Your attention to detail, collaborative approach, and commercial awareness will help ensure your work is delivered to a high standard and translated successfully through to build.

Key Responsibilities

• Creating high-quality, effective, and visually engaging digital designs that align with user experience best practice, accessibility standards, and client objectives.
• Responding to briefs with strong creative ideas and well-considered digital experience concepts.
• Designing responsive user interfaces, page templates, components, and journeys across a range of digital platforms, particularly for Adobe Experience Manager.
• Working closely with project managers, developers, and content teams to deliver high-quality digital solutions.
• Producing and sourcing high-quality visual assets, and overseeing asset creation where needed.
• Applying and contributing to design systems, UI patterns, and component libraries to support consistency and scalability.
• Ensuring internal review and approval processes are followed before work is presented to clients.
• Preparing clear, developer-ready design files, annotations, and handover documentation to support smooth implementation.
• Demonstrating commercial awareness, including an understanding of timelines, budgets, utilization, and project scope.
• Being curious about emerging technologies and new ways of working, and applying relevant innovations thoughtfully within digital projects.
• Supporting pitches, proposals, and new business opportunities when required.
• Being flexible in working with UK-based teams and clients, including collaborating across time zones when required.

To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Need To

• Deliver high-quality digital design work with a strong eye for craft, detail, and consistency.
• Create work that is both visually strong and grounded in user needs and business goals.
• Build trust and credibility with clients through the quality of your ideas, communication, and delivery.
• Build strong working relationships with colleagues across design, project management, and technology.
• Be proactive, organized, and comfortable working across multiple projects and deadlines.
• Show curiosity about evolving digital trends, tools, and technologies, including accessibility, AI-enabled workflows, and user expectations in modern digital experiences.
• Maintain a strong commitment to continuous improvement and creative excellence.

Reporting Relationships

You will report to the Head of Digital Delivery APAC. You will also work closely with Digital Project Managers and Digital Designers in the UK to ensure work is delivered on brief, on time, and to the required standard.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• A degree in Graphic Design, Digital Design, Visual Communication, or a related discipline would be beneficial.
• Ideally 3 to 5 years’ experience in a digital agency or similar fast-paced environment.
• Strong experience designing for modern digital channels, including corporate websites, campaign microsites, landing pages, email, and social content.
• Strong proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• A good understanding of responsive design, accessibility standards, and user-centered design principles.
• Experience working with design systems and handing over designs for development.
• Strong presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to clearly explain and justify design decisions.
• An understanding of HTML, CSS, and front-end constraints would be beneficial.

Interview Process

• Phone chat with Talent Acquisition Manager
• 1st Interview (via Teams) with Hiring Manager
• 2nd Interview (in person) with Hiring Manager and Wider Team Member

Benefits

• Comprehensive training and upskilling opportunities.
• Personal development programmes tailored to your growth and career ambitions.
• Competitive salary based on your skills and experience.
• Discretionary bonus scheme to reward your contributions.
• Hybrid working arrangement that gives you flexibility and work-life balance (min 3 days a week in the office).
• Extraordinary workplace - our office is in a 1920s heritage building right in the heart of Chinatown, surrounded by Michelin-rated eats and city buzz.
• In addition to 22 days annual leave and bank holidays.
• We offer a designated GP service via MindMed and you’ll also have access to our wellbeing support via our international EAP Service ComPsych Guidance Resources, offering confidential emotional, legal, financial, and life support – available 24/7 to you and your immediate family with a digital App to easily access all of these resources from your own device.
• The opportunity to make a real difference every day, shaping the future of communications and creating positive change.

About Us

Black Sun Global is a stakeholder advisory and engagement agency that’s been driving transformation and positive change for ambitious brands for more than 20 years. With deep expertise in disclosure and reporting, ESG, sustainability, and digital engagement, we reshape how organisations connect with customers, investors, employees, and the wider world. We are trusted partners to some of the most influential global organisations, sparking innovation and sustainable performance through our strategic insights, partnerships, and proprietary technologies. As founders of the Positive Change Group, we are on a mission to create a new kind of stakeholder relations partner. Our world-class specialists work closely with executive leadership teams to protect reputations, inspire trust, and promote responsible business practices - building resilience and long-term value in a rapidly changing world. The Positive Change Group: Business is changing fast - shaped by AI, transparency and rising social expectations - and trust now decides who wins. Positive Change Group brings together specialist agencies in reporting, culture and communications to help organisations build stronger, more connected stakeholder relationships - aligning what you say with what you do to drive performance, resilience and trust. Clients get deep specialist expertise with seamless access to wider Group capabilities as priorities evolve. We’re trusted partners to some of the world’s leading organisations, delivering award-winning work that turns complex challenges into meaningful progress. By combining human insight with data and technology, we create intelligent stakeholder engagement that brings clarity, builds commitment and delivers measurable impact. One partner across your stakeholders - practical, joined-up and built for what’s next.

Join the People Driving Positive Change

Change starts with people. Our global teams bring together different disciplines, nationalities, and perspectives, driven by a shared belief that business can be a force for good. Guided by our Group Values - to learn and grow, go together, show respect, be courageous and deliver excellence - we bring these principles to life every day through our work and each other. We call it The Changemaker Way: a culture built on trust, inclusion, and doing what’s right. It’s how we learn, lead, and grow - and make a difference that lasts. We pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We foster a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best work, and be relevant in a rapidly changing world. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

Key skills/competency

• Digital Design
• User Experience (UX)
• Visual Design
• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Responsive Design
• Design Systems
• Accessibility
• Client Communication
• Stakeholder Engagement