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Our Artwork & Design placement will allow you to develop your graphic design skills within the Gymshark Creative Studio, working within the established design team, alongside production, styling, video, photography, retouch, copy and creative functions. This placement offers a huge range of opportunities depending on your skillset, ambitions, and willingness to learn.
The role will give you broad scope across all major design touchpoints, from fast-paced artworking to conceptual work and full design executions, ensuring full exposure of the creative design process from across our creative studio. As a member of the Design team, you will be involved in taking concepts from initial ideas to full-fledged go-to-market campaigns, helping to direct and develop along the way.
When you work for us, you’re more than a placement student – you’ll join our Gymshark family. We give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster and be the best version of themselves. We work hard, sure, but we have fun while we do it.
Placement Start Date: 1st July, 2024
Placement Duration: 13 Months (includes a one-month handover with the current placement student!)
Location: Solihull, UK
Closing Date: Tuesday 2nd January, Midnight (applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment)
Assessment Centre Date: 5th March 2024 (at Gymshark HQ, Solihull)
What you’ll learn
You will gain experience in:
- Industry processes and standards in both digital and print design production
- Developing graphic identities in both internal comms and external campaigns
- Working on and contributing to projects and the day-to-day operations of a busy design team within a larger Creative Studio
- Creation of design assets for our stakeholders and various marketing channels ranging from physical events to online and offline collateral, whilst working to strict deadlines
- Conceptualisation of ideas and visual development, working alongside our pre-production and post-production teams to bring ideas to life.
What you’ll need
We’re not about box-ticking, a placement year is about developing you. To be successful for a placement at Gymshark, you will:
- Be passionate about learning and developing your skills
- Be an effective communicator
- Work successfully within a team environment and independently
- Have good relationship building skills
- Be able to manage and prioritise your time effectively
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment.
To be successful for a Artwork & Design placement with us, you will have:
- An impeccable and fierce attention for detail
- Passion for all things graphic design, typography, layout, and branding
- Good experience in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
- Experience in After Effects is a bonus.
- A passion for collaboration, with creatives, copywriters, retouchers and videographers to seamlessly execute ideas at scale.
What you’ll get
We offer a diverse and inclusive culture, a supportive and sociable work environment, plus ample opportunities for professional growth, development, and networking. Plus, just to mention some of our perks:
- 🌴 25 days holidays + your birthday and all the Bank Holidays which can be substituted and taken whenever you want.
- 🙌A tailored and individualised placement approach
- 💻 A truly Flexible Working Culture
- 👥 A collaborative, creative and inspiring working environment
- 🦈 50% Gymshark Discount
- 🥇 Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
- 📚 Great Training and Learning Resources
- 🖥 Choice of hardware and access to the best software
- 🤒 Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
- 🍎 Refuel - Healthy fresh food at GSHQ
- 🏋️♂️ Lifting Club (LC) Gym Membership
- 👉 Free monthly massages
Ready to apply?
Application Outcomes: End of January
If successful, you will be invited to complete a video/phone interview so we can get to know the person behind the application.
Video/Phone Interview Outcome: Mid-February
If successful, you will be invited to an in-person assessment centre at Gymshark HQ, Solihull, on 5th March, 2024
To be eligible, you must
- ✅ Be currently studying an undergraduate degree at university
- ✅ Be able to take 13 months out to do a year in industry before going back for your final year
- ✅ Have the right to work in the UK (unfortunately we cannot provide sponsorship for placement students)
- ✅ Be happy to work from our HQ campus in Solihull, West Midlands
- ✅ Be ready to start from July 2024
About us
We’re here to unite the conditioning community. We believe that putting the sweat in today, prepares us for tomorrow. So, we give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster, be stronger. We celebrate those who show up – for themselves – to be their physical or mental best, whatever that means for them.
It’s what we want for our community, and our team. A team that’s growing rapidly around the world. A collective of talented individuals working together to invent Gymshark’s future. Our plans are ambitious, and we’re looking for people who want to join us for the ride – our growth will be your growth.
Belonging at Gymshark
Our mission is to be a place where everyone belongs. We’re an equal opportunities employer, and for us that means we always strive to be as inclusive as possible in all aspects of employment, right from your application. We’re committed to finding reasonable adjustments* for candidates with specific needs or have a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. *If you’d like to request a reasonable adjustment please email talent@gymshark.com.
