Designer - Communications

Designer - Communications

This is an exciting opportunity to join Isio’s fast-growing Employee Benefits business, which spans strategic benefit design, workplace health & wellbeing consulting, DC pensions, benefits technology, and employee engagement & support.

About Isio Engagement and Support

We develop communication programmes for large blue-chip and medium-sized businesses in the UK. We help employers and pension scheme sponsors creatively communicate their valuable employee benefits programmes to their people.

We are committed to widening engagement with employee benefits and pensions beyond the norm—bringing benefits to life for everyone, no matter their situation, goals, or priorities for the future. We encourage people to take the action that matches their life goals and priorities through a whole range of print, digital, and face-to-face communication channels.

The Role at a Glance

• Delivering high-quality and creative communication campaigns for our clients.
• Working alongside our other creatives and consultants in the development of creative strategy, interpreting the client’s brief to ensure our campaigns create the impact and results our clients are seeking.
• Translating creative concepts and brands into engaging visual communications across digital and traditional channels. Supporting the development of creative strategy for our products and services to allow us to bring those to a wider range of clients across the UK.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing visual concepts and presenting your creative work and rationale to our clients and other members of the client team.
• Working with design assets and templates, ensuring brand and narrative consistency to create final artwork for campaign material—from conception to delivery. Acting as brand guardian for the concepts we develop.
• Contributing to the development of creative ideas for a whole range of Isio communication clients.
• Supporting the creation of both bespoke and ‘off-the-shelf’ communication solutions.
• Delivering solutions across multiple channels (e.g., print, digital).
• Supporting with training (internal and client) around best practice approaches and sharing knowledge across the team.

Core Skills & Required Experience

• Confident in the use of graphic design and digital content creation software to develop engaging communications and digital campaigns across multiple channels and brands.
• Confident using Adobe Creative Suite and in delivering pre-print processes and digital asset production.
• A portfolio demonstrating your visual storytelling and brand/concepts/layout application in a range of digital and traditional media.
• Experience in the creation of templates & brand libraries.
• Strong visual communication skills (typography, hierarchy, readability, etc.).
• Collaborative and receptive to feedback—good communication skills and happy to present your work in front of clients supported by other members of the team.
• Accuracy and attention to detail, with strong organizational skills to manage time, budget, and deadlines.

The Successful Candidate

You’ll thrive on bringing new ideas and innovation to your work. You’ll possess good attention to detail and be collaborative in giving and receiving feedback to achieve the best results for our clients.

You should be strong at working to deadlines, have good experience planning your time and scoping work for a client, and possess a keen eye for detail.

You Might Also Have:

• Experience with Figma.
• Client-facing relationships and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of financial education/services or the UK pensions industry.
• Understanding of accessibility requirements for both print and digital.
• Video software skills.

Why Join Isio

Isio is a fast-growing professional services business that offers career development through diverse and meaningful work, nationwide opportunities, and a culture that rewards high performance and accountability.

We hold ourselves to the highest standards, and our values guide how we advise our clients, how we operate as a business, and how we work together as a team. We call this the Isio Attitude. We encourage our people to be bold, to communicate with conviction, and to deliver work that matters.

Here, growth brings opportunity—more responsibility and work that stretches and develops you. We invest in training and development so you can expand your skills and explore different career paths across diverse markets to make your mark. Isio is a place to realize your potential and build a career with impact. Find out more about Isio and the benefits we offer on our careers website: Isio - Careers & Benefits.

About Isio

Isio is a progressive and fast-growing advisory firm, partnering with clients of all sizes to deliver expertise in pensions, employee benefits, and wealth advisory services.

Working with pension trustees, employers, individuals, families, and their offices, we are supported by talented colleagues across 10 UK offices.

Our culture shapes our work; we foster a supportive environment where we develop our people to grow and fulfill their potential. We invest in our services, products, and technology, and provide clear, expert solutions for our clients. This brings clarity, confidence, and better outcomes for everyone.

At Isio, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace, where our colleagues feel they belong, regardless of background or difference. We uphold the values of respect, fairness, and inclusion in our actions and decisions. We believe that by adhering to these principles, we will create a stronger, more innovative, and supportive environment for all, as well as ensuring that the advice and support we provide to our clients is more creative, more insightful, and leaves a lasting impact.

We can offer a hybrid, flexible approach to work, supporting a work-life balance that works for you. Isio Group is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

If you think you may require a reasonable adjustment to be made for any reason at any stage of your recruitment process, please contact us at hrrecruitment@ISIO.com.