We’re looking for a Junior Digital Designer to help us to help support the Design team in providing on brand creative to digital projects across Yoto’s business.
About Yoto
Yoto is a screen-free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning with 1,000+ titles in our card store from top creators, publishers and labels - think Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music. We also create Yoto Originals like this one.
- Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023.
- Ranked 9th in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024; and featured in the Sifted 100 fastest-growing startups across the UK&I by revenue growth.
- Second fastest growing tech company in the UK, in Deloitte Fast50 2023.
- Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020
- We’re 140+ employees spread across the UK, US and France.. and growing!
We’re on a mission to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. By creating products that inspire independent play, we help families discover and grow with an inspiring world of audio - and we would like you to help us achieve it!
Yoto’s Marketing & Creative Team
The Yoto Creative team sits within the wider global Marketing team. The small, but mighty, team is made up of a Senior Graphic Designer, Midweight Designer, Junior Graphic Designer, Senior Creative Artworker and Creative Studio Coordinator plus freelance and agency support where required - all overseen by our Creative Services Director.
The team works across all Yoto content designs, packaging, marketing campaigns & collateral, across all regions in both print and digital. You will have a hand in most things you see at Yoto! The Creative team brings our Yoto Originals content to life creating the perfect card art to surprise and delight our passionate audience, as well as ensuring that our licensed partner content is always on brand and showcases the exciting world-class licences that we work with.
What you’ll be doing:
As the Digital Designer, you will create bespoke graphics, assets and templates for CRM and Paid Media as well as imagery across the website, ecommerce partners and on landing pages.
We’re looking for someone who is naturally well-organised and has a passion and vision to create innovative concepts designed to optimise our online content.
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skill sets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:
- Working across our digital channels you will be confident to deliver projects working from concept to completion, ensuring you adhere to the Yoto brand guidelines and push boundaries creatively.
- You will bring to life our campaign imagery for editorial use, cropping, artworking, creating GIFs and typographic overlays.
- Create graphical assets for a wide range of campaigns across all Yoto markets. Assets will be needed for email, including animated gifs, paid media and web.
- Confident working with a Digital Asset Management system, to maintain all assets in one place in a structured and organised manner.
- Demonstrate confidence to propose new ideas and concepts.
- Work with Paid teams across the network to create digital marketing creatives, such as content for various social media platforms to support their campaigns.
- Work with the Amazon team to keep our digital brand stores refreshed and create assets for new titles which have been added to the library.
What you’ll bring:
- 0-2 years of prior experience in a similar digital design role, ideally within a busy agency environment.
- Thorough working knowledge of Adobe CC (especially Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD and After Effects) as well as Figma
- Email design experience
- Motion graphics and video editing experience, primarily for social media
- Ability to create design concepts and layouts
- Ability to collaborate with other departments to ensure consistent brand messaging
- A portfolio which demonstrates design execution across digital formats
- Experience of juggling concurrent projects and internal stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and responding to tasks with an efficient, can-do attitude.
- A creative thinker and problem solver with exceptional attention to detail, excellent typography and layout skills and a good understanding of UI and UX design.
- Organised and proactive, supporting the wider creative studio in meeting deadlines with efficiency, whilst maintaining high standards.
Salary: £25,000 - £27,000 based on experience.
What you can expect from Yoto:
- Flexibility: Hybrid working with a choice based approach - we would love you to come into the office as much as possible, with a minimum of once or twice a month. Take advantage of our ‘work from anywhere’ policy to work from a different location for up to 6 weeks every year. Summer Hours policy to use between the months of June and August.
- Financial: Receive Income Protection, covering long term sickness for up to 2 years and company sick pay that increases with length of service. Life Assurance cover from day one of your service. Workplace Pension offering up to to 3% employer contributions, following probation. Generous employee referral bonus scheme.
- Health & Wellness: Private Medical Insurance via Aviva, or a Wellbeing Allowance to be used for memberships, subscriptions, treatment or therapy. Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) through WeCare and unlimited access to Dental advice and guidance via Toothfairy. Bike to work scheme to promote healthier lifestyles.
- Time Off: 25 days of holiday per year, plus bank holidays. On top of this, you also receive your birthday off, plus 1 extra day of holiday for every year worked after you hit your 2 year anniversary, up to 5 extra days. After 4 years of service, you are also eligible for our sabbatical policy offering up to 3 months' of unpaid sabbatical.
- Helping Families: Variety of family-friendly leave, including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, pregnancy loss and carers leave. Unlock savings with our workplace nursery scheme, designed to support parents of preschool-aged children.
- People & Planet: Up to 2 volunteer days a year. A Book Allowance of up to £50 a year to contribute to your professional development.
- Fun Perks: You receive your very own Yoto player and starter pack of cards! Regular company socials and celebrations, including our annual YotoFest!
Equity and Diversity
At Yoto, our mission is to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. Our success is rooted in unwavering commitment to our core principles—Kids in Control, Helping Families, Building with Empathy, Embrace Difference, and Playfully Inquisitive.
At Yoto, flexible working and autonomy are key to us. We support working parents because we know that life and work need to work together. And just as we share audio content from a diverse community of creators, we also strive to build a diverse and inclusive team. Our passionate DE&I group raises new voices, beliefs, and perspectives to help everyone at Yoto feel heard. Check out our website for more info on our approach to People and Planet.
Please only apply or engage with Yoto jobs posted on our careers page (careers.yotoplay.com or careers.yotoplay.com/en). All correspondence from our Talent team will only come through Teamtailor, our application tracking system.
