Location
Chiswick Park, London with some flexibility for remote working as appropriate.

Hours
Full Time - 9:00 to 17:00, Monday to Friday. May require unsocial hours including evenings and weekends to meet pitch or proposal deadlines. Travel to other IMG locations, meetings, and industry events may be required.

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency specializing in media rights management, multi-channel content production, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and event management. As a Mid-weight Designer, you will help shape how IMG presents itself globally by working with brands, rights holders, and sporting properties to transform big ideas into compelling visual stories. Your work will span marketing campaigns, commercial pitches, and RFPs, delivering fresh, editorial-quality design with a sharp visual point of view. This role offers the opportunity to work across both B2B and B2C briefs, develop ideas alongside senior creatives, and take projects from concept through to final delivery. You will bring curiosity, craft, and creative thinking to every brief, shaping ideas, solving problems, and telling stories through design.

Key Responsibilities
- Translate creative briefs into engaging ideas, visual directions, and design concepts balancing creative ambition with strategic and commercial goals.
- Develop and produce pitch decks, RFPs, commercial presentations, campaign assets, editorial layouts, brand communications, and other visual materials.
- Turn strategy, research, copy, and raw content into clear, compelling, and well-structured visual narratives.
- Take ownership of design workstreams from initial concepts through to final artwork, incorporating feedback at each stage.
- Collaborate closely with Design Lead, Senior Designers, Copywriters, strategists, marketers, and production teams to ensure relevance, accuracy, and timely delivery.
- Apply IMG and client brand identities consistently across materials while helping to evolve the work.
- Create layouts and artwork for presentations, print, digital, and social content.
- Research sport, entertainment, culture, brands, fan behaviour, and emerging design practices to bring fresh thinking.
- Prepare final artwork and presentation files accurately, managing versions, specifications, assets, and deadlines.
- Present work clearly in internal reviews, explain design decisions, and respond constructively to feedback.
- Use AI-driven tools and workflows appropriately to support creativity and efficiency.
- Manage multiple projects and priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
- Contribute to a positive, collaborative team culture by sharing ideas and supporting colleagues.

Experience
- Strong experience in graphic, brand, editorial design, or creative communications ideally within sport, entertainment, agency, or commercial marketing.
- Portfolio demonstrating expertise in presentation design, pitch materials, editorial graphics, campaign assets, or brand communications.
- Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator); Figma and motion design experience advantageous.
- Experience working on commercial presentations, pitches, campaigns, or other commercially driven creative projects.
- Understanding of brand development, visual systems, and adapting creative work across platforms.
- Experience using AI tools or workflows to support creative development and efficiency.

About You
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with confidence to ask questions, share ideas, and act on feedback.
- Excellent organisation and time-management skills to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
- Experience with project management tools such as Asana, Monday, or Trello.
- Thoughtful, enthusiastic, and visually curious designer who cares about quality.
- Strong hands-on designer with a good eye for typography, layout, hierarchy, and detail.
- Commercially aware and interested in how design helps brands and sporting properties connect with audiences.
- Comfortable working collaboratively and developing ideas with direction and feedback.
- Proactive, reliable, and willing to take ownership from brief through delivery.
- Organised and composed under pressure, balancing competing priorities without losing detail.
- Culturally aware, interested in sport and entertainment, motivated to keep learning and evolving.
- Positive attitude with a genuine belief in the power of design and storytelling to create impact.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications stated; success is driven by strong design skills, creativity, collaboration, and alignment with IMG’s core competencies: Business Acumen, Operational Excellence, Innovation Mindset, and Leadership & Collaboration.