We’re recruiting a Graphic Designer to help drive our new brand identity and bring exciting campaigns to life.

At Walker Morris, our brand gives you the freedom to push boundaries. We’re a firm that refuses to follow the expected path, and our creative team plays a central role in redefining what communications from a law firm can — and should — look like. With the business growing at pace, we are expanding the Marketing & Business Development team, and we’re excited to introduce an opportunity for a Graphic Designer to join us.

This is your chance to work within a small, talented Design team where your ideas won’t just be heard, they’ll help shape the future of the Walker Morris brand. You’ll play a key role in the rollout of our refreshed brand identity, contributing to major projects that underpin our ambitious growth strategy. Reporting to our Creative Lead, you’ll be supported to develop your skills, explore new techniques, and bring your design perspective to a wide range of creative challenges.

Your work will be varied, purposeful, and far from repetitive. Throughout the year, you’ll contribute to bold marketing campaigns on themes such as AI, technology and digital transformation, and cybersecurity, developing engaging B2B content for our clients while collaborating with internal stakeholders on projects that bring our culture and values to life. You’ll have ownership of your work, influence design direction, and help create impactful communications across both internal and external channels.

If you’re looking for a role that blends creative freedom with real responsibility and offers exposure to a wide variety of design disciplines and campaign types, this is an opportunity to make your mark. We’re committed to helping you grow, with access to training to advance your skills and the support of a team that values curiosity, collaboration, and fresh thinking.

As the Graphic Designer, you will:

• Produce impactful graphics and branded materials both for print and digital including brochures, leaflets, adverts, events materials, social media content, website graphics, other internal assets etc.
• Produce high‑quality artwork by accurately artworking and proofing all deliverables against the brief, technical specifications, and spelling standards.
• Work with the Creative Lead to develop concepts and ideas.
• Work with legal and business service teams to take briefs, create assets and complete work, managing expectations throughout the process.
• Assist with video filming, edit videos and create animations on After Effects and Premiere (training will be provided).
• Utilise and manage our design software package, MARQ, encouraging teams to be self-sufficient.
• Support the Creative Lead on collection of assets for BAU activities such as imagery, email and website assets.
• Work within brand guidelines and be a gatekeeper for them, monitoring design/visual work being created across the business.
• Provide ad-hoc support to the Bids team with design work in Word, PowerPoint and InDesign to support bids and tenders.
• Provide ad-hoc support to the Events + BD team with PowerPoint presentation design.
• Manage print production on materials (training will be provided).

We are looking for:

• Formal training and professional qualification in Graphic Design.
• A portfolio that demonstrates ability to create visually compelling and effective designs that are executed to a high standard showing careful and thorough proofing skills.
• Experience of working in a design agency or in-house design role for 3+ years.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Proven experience interpreting and following a brief, understanding how to bring to life key messages and concepts.
• Be able to demonstrate a high level of creativity and accuracy to drive and create a suite of design and graphic assets to reflect our brand and uphold its reputation.
• An excellent understanding of composition and layout, typography, and visual hierarchy.
• Must be able to comprehend and follow brand guidelines, with a strong attention to detail and ability to deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines.
• Demonstrates a strong eye for selecting impactful photography and visual assets, with the ability to think creatively and explore innovative visual approaches beyond the expected when required.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate effectively with all colleagues.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office – experience of working within PowerPoint & Word to create impactful communications to clients.
• Experience of animation/motion design using Adobe After Effects is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of video production and editing using Adobe Premiere is desirable but not essential.

Some of our benefits include:

• Salary reflective of your experience.
• Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary. 
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.
• Hybrid and flexible working with 40-60% of your time spent in the office.

Find out more about working at Walker Morris here.

Why Walker Morris

Walker Morris is a Leeds-headquartered UK law firm, operating internationally through a network of high quality, likeminded firms around the world. More than 25% of our work has an international element and our clients are household names spanning a variety of sectors most notably in energy and infrastructure, financial services, logistics, manufacturing, pharma, real estate and retail and consumer.

Those who know us say we're a different type of legal business. One not bound by convention, but one with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for breaking with tradition to deliver real competitive advantage. It's an approach that's getting us noticed and introducing opportunities from existing as well as new clients for more complex, higher value work. To show that we're different, our marketing & communications need to stand out in the overcrowded typical law firm landscape.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us.  They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people.  They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take.  It’s really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.

If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to ask. We are a Disability Confident employer.