Graphic Designer

Lyst is a global Fashion Tech company and premium shopping app, founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 200M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion items & products in one place, via an assortment of 8.5M+ items from over 17,000 of the world’s leading brands. We are a scale-up business with a current team size of c. 160 people in London, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace.

At Lyst we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn’t, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper. Lyst has raised over $160m from leading investors including Accel, Balderton, Molten Ventures, Fidelity International, and LVMH.

We are looking for a Graphic Designer to join our Media Squad to help us with this continuing mission. At Lyst we champion great design and creativity, and know that our ambitious plans to create a unique offering that thrills fashion lovers relies on us having great visuals. In this role you will work as part of the Branded Content tribe, but also work closely with the wider Lyst Centralised Design Chapter that crosses the whole business. You will work closely with the VP Partnerships to bring our partner assets and content to life through innovative and exciting visual design and forward thinking content experiences. 

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the content and Centralised Design team to create impactful visual assets that bring to life our content across multiple channels
• Work with the content team on image sourcing as part of the asset creation
• Maintain our creative and visual direction, ensuring all our visual assets reflect the Lyst brand
• Become a Lyst ambassador for all things creative, championing and supporting great design across the business
• Play a pivotal role in setting the foundation of the media design function including various internal and external facing materials
• In collaboration with brand, create an archive of approved imagery to be used within our sales and marketing materials
• Maintain our internal keynote/google slide templates, keeping it updated with our brand expression. 
• Be heavily involved with the media team’s pitching, production and delivery process resulting in the creation of native co-branded assets
• Work with the Product team to help us best position content throughout our experiences
• Use design as a medium to further position Lyst as a future facing tech company with innovation at the heart of our content materials and solutions

• You’re highly creative and taste-driven, with an authentic love for design, fashion and culture
• You’re versatile and agile, able to prove fast and work at speed, but also work collaboratively and change direction when needed
• Motivated by the challenge and opportunity to be part of the team to reimagine the future of shoppable fashion content
• Organised, self motivated and able to hit the ground running
• Highly collaborative with the ability to distribute work as part of a wider design function
• You possess the ability to identify opportunities through design that lead to higher customer engagement and impact across our platforms
• Interest in developing your skills as a designer. You will have ambition and want to grow with our squad.
• Some previous experience in graphic design or similar, in-house, publisher or agency setting
• Experience creating high-quality, impactful visuals including assets for both print and digital
• Ability to work to a high level of speed, accuracy and quality with Photoshop and Illustrator
• Familiarity with Wordpress, Webflow, Ceros. Hands on experience, a plus!
• Motion or web development experience, a plus!
• Comfortable working in a ‘test and learn’ environment
• Creative design portfolio (online or PDF)

• Our Ways of Working: We come into the office between 2-4 days a week and we're always in on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We strongly believe that in-person collaboration and time spent together as a team allows us to deliver high impact work, but the flexibility to also work remotely supports our diverse team.
• Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst’s holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
• Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.
• Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service
• Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start..
• Training Allowance: We’re big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources.
• Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People’s Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.
• Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You’ll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses.
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them.
• Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work.
• Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more.

We want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.