Careers

The Role

You’ll sit at the intersection of design, motion and frontend development, working closely with digital and motion designers to bring brands to life through:

• Motion-led website builds

• Cinematic scroll experiences

• GSAP-driven interactions

• Playful micro-animations

• Modern, component-driven frontend architecture

You’ll be responsible for building visually rich sites in Craft CMS (our preferred platform), along with Shopify sites for our e-commerce clients, and occasional bespoke WordPress work.

This role suits someone who loves experimenting, prototyping and pushing what a brand can feel like online.

What We’re Looking For

Core Skills

You should be confident in:

• Craft CMS – building custom templates, components, fields and module structures

• Shopify – building custom themes, sections and highly branded storefront experiences

• Modern frontend craft – semantic HTML, responsive SCSS, CSS Grid/Flexbox best practices

• GSAP – timelines, scroll-based animation, advanced interaction work

• Bringing motion concepts to life from Figma, After Effects or Lottie

• Writing strong, clean JavaScript (ES6+) with an understanding of performance and accessibility

• Working collaboratively with designers, motion artists and strategists

• Building fast, optimised sites with excellent UX and attention to detail
  

Mindset

You are:

• Obsessed with craft and detail

• Excited by emerging creative technologies

• Comfortable experimenting and building prototypes

• Someone who cares about how a site feels, not just how it functions

• Always learning, always improving, always pushing for more expressive work

Nice to Have

These aren’t required, but they’re a bonus:

• Experience with headless Craft with Vue/React setups

• Three.js or WebGL experience

• Experience working with APIs and integrations

• Exposure to build tools (Vite, Webpack) and Git workflows

What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on experience

• Yearly bonus scheme

• Improved workplace pension

• Monthly well-being allowance

• 32 days paid holiday (including bank holidays)

• Your birthday off and a £100 present

• Hybrid working: remote on Mondays and Fridays; Tuesday–Thursday in our Manchester studio

• Individual learning and development programmes

• Free refreshments, breakfast and fruit in the office

• Regular team-building socials and meals out

• A collaborative team where design, dev and motion create together

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Creative Charge: Drive the ideation stages of projects, swiftly translating client briefs into compelling ideas, either independently or as part of a team.
• Masterful Presentation & Rationale: Present your ideas with precision through mock-ups and presentation visuals. Articulate the "why" behind your creative thinking with passion and conviction, whether presenting your own work or that of your team.
• Craft & Execution: Transform your ideas into compelling, effective designs through exceptional application of your craft. Ensure accuracy in your work and that of your team members.
• Strategic & Future Ready: Understand when to disrupt a space for a brand and when to leverage Ai tools. Actively integrate insights from the strategy team into your designs.
• Client Storytelling: Present your work artfully and passionately, building context, weaving a compelling story, and delivering exciting moments for our clients.
• Time Management & Standards: Pragmatically ensure your output is fit for purpose, meets deadlines, and upholds BGN's creative standards. Communicate misaligned expectations to senior colleagues or client services to ensure timely delivery.

Skills and experience

• A proven track record of delivering well-crafted, effective design.
  
• Demonstrable ability to lead ideation stages and develop compelling creative responses to briefs.
  
• Expertise in presenting ideas through high-quality mock-ups and visuals.
  
• Exceptional communication skills, able to articulate creative rationale with passion and conviction.
  
• Proficiency in applying your craft to create compelling and effective designs.
  
• Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma with technical knowledge of asset production for all outputs.
  
• A portfolio showcasing significant brand identity and digital projects, demonstrating concept-driven design, superior execution, experimentation, versatility, strategic thinking, and energy

Your personality

• A proactive contributor, always looking for ways to improve agency processes.
• A positive role model for collaborative ways of working, adjusting to individual behavioural preferences within the team.
• Respectful, supportive, and keen to share in everyone's successes.
• Eager to contribute to BGN's growth and continued success, including leading creative components of case studies and new business activities.
• A proud ambassador for BGN, representing us professionally and positively within the Northern creative scene.

What we offer

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Yearly bonus scheme
• Improved workplace pension
• Monthly well-being allowance
• 32 days paid holiday (including bank holidays)
• Your birthday off and a £100 present
• Hybrid working: remote on Mondays and Fridays; Tuesday–Thursday in our Manchester studio
• Individual learning and development programmes
• Free refreshments, breakfast and fruit in the office
• Regular team-building socials and meals out
• A collaborative team where design, dev and motion create together