Creative Design Specialist (6-month FTC)

For Linklaters Office in Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Creative Design Specialist role.

Purpose

Your role plays a key part in producing high-quality, brand-consistent marketing

collateral. Ensuring projects meet the firm’s visual identity standards and stakeholder expectations.

You will be expected to balance creativity with technical precision, managing multiple projects under time pressure, delivering excellent customer service, and collaborating closely with team members and stakeholders.

Your key responsibilities

• Produce high-quality marketing collateral: create and prepare impactful artwork, presentations, and other materials, working within established templates and following brand guidelines.

• Support bespoke design work: create and source custom design elements when required, under the direction of the Team Leader and according to stakeholder briefs.

• Embrace new technology: use AI tools and automation, following prompts or templates provided, and provide feedback on how tools and workflows can improve.

• Quality assurance: consistently check your work to ensure it meets project requirements, quality expectations, and brand standards.

• Personal accountability: approach tasks with energy, reliability, and attention to detail, taking pride in completing your work to agreed deadlines and standards.

• Team contribution: share your knowledge, ask questions to build your understanding, and work closely with your team to solve challenges and deliver results together.

• Team meetings: actively participate in regular team meetings to monitor workflow, address operational issues, and contribute ideas for ongoing team improvement.

• Cross-office collaboration: work as part of a diverse, global team, building your understanding of local and regional needs.

• Relationship building: help maintain positive working relationships with colleagues in Marketing, the Marketing Centre of Excellence, and other business teams by delivering high-quality, timely work and being responsive to guidance.

• Support stakeholder requests: respond promptly and professionally to design requests or feedback, following clear instructions and escalating more complex enquiries to the Team Leader.

Your experience

• Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in a graphic design or artwork support role, ideally in a professional services or corporate environment.

• Demonstrated ability to manage your own workload, keep track of several tasks or projects, and complete high-quality work under time pressure and guidance.

• Strong teamwork and willingness to learn: you work well within a team structure, welcome feedback from others, and show curiosity to develop your skills.

• Good relationship skills: able to communicate effectively and professionally with colleagues at all levels, taking care to understand instructions and respond appropriately.

• Creative approach: able to follow creative briefs or guidance to produce visually engaging work, using established templates and approved brand elements.

• High attention to detail and diligence in quality-checking your work before submission.

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud programmes (such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat) and Microsoft PowerPoint. Interest or experience in

animation, AI graphic tools, or digital design is advantageous but not essential.

• Good written and verbal communication skills in English. Other languages (such as Polish) not required.

• Familiarity with print production workflows and digital communication channels is helpful, but not required.

Location and working hours

• Warsaw (hybrid model - 2 days per week from the office)

• Working hours - 9:00 to 17:15

The Team

You will join Linklaters Global Solutions (LGS) as a critical member of the Business Development and Marketing (BDM) team. Linklaters Global Solutions is a function delivering day-to-day transactional work essential to the smooth running of the firm and providing analysis and advisory capability to our business stakeholders, lawyers, and partners globally. BDM LGS is a diverse and highly skilled team of marketing, business development, data, and operations professionals dedicated to supporting the wider BDM function in driving revenue growth, nurturing our priority client relationships, and strengthening the

firm’s reputation. Our team works on initiatives ranging from pitch creation and

marketing content management to market intelligence and data analytics, creative design, and event coordination.

At BDM LGS, you will find yourself in a collaborative, collegiate, and truly international environment. You can expect opportunities to shape strategic initiatives as well as our internal ways of working, support our most critical client relationships, and help the firm achieve its ambitious strategic goals.

The role within BDM LGS promises a diverse array of tasks and projects. You will encounter significant opportunities for learning and growth within a nurturing and supportive environment. We look forward to expanding our team with individuals who share our drive, forward-thinking mindset, and enthusiasm.

Linklaters

Linklaters is a global law firm, with 31 offices in 21 countries worldwide.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and

incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

Benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

• Private medical insurance

• On-site gym and bike facilities

• Group Life insurance

• Firm funded worldwide personal travel insurance, for you and your family

• Subsidised sport card or public transportation card

• Wide range of training opportunities

What sets us apart At Linklaters

• We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved

in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our

business

• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment, and

governance responsibility commitments

• We remain focused on talent and having the best people which will result in a

diverse workforce

• Having got the best people, we want them to feel included, valued and

respected so they can perform at their best

• We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their

voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to

• We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents

and aspirations

• We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our

people and our business

• We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust,

respect, and appreciation

• We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to

talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as

needed

• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional

intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of

others

Technical Skills:

Audience Targeting, Brand Marketing, Channel Distribution Management, Channels Strategy, Content Design, Content Development, Content Strategy Development, Creative Direction, Digital Marketing, Diversity Marketing, Video Production

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.