E-Commerce Content & Website Experience Designer

Houghton Country Ltd
Heddon-on-the-Wall, UK
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
£35,000.0 - £45,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

HTML Computer-Aided Design Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Shopify Web Pages Figma

Job description

  • How can we help customers discover products more easily?
  • How can we improve our homepage?
  • What buying guides should we create?
  • Which products should be bundled together?
  • How can we make shopping more enjoyable?
  • How can we increase customer confidence?
  • How can we improve conversion rates?
  • How can we create pages that customers want to share?

You’ll help answer those questions every day.

Why Join Houghton Country?

This is an exciting opportunity to make a genuine impact on a growing business.

Rather than maintaining an existing website, you’ll help shape its future.

You’ll work in a business where your ideas are welcomed, your creativity is valued and your work will be seen by thousands of customers every week.

If you’re passionate about design, online retail and creating exceptional customer experiences, we’d love to hear from you.

Requirements

Do you have experience in HTML?, * Has a fantastic eye for design.

  • Understands great user experience.
  • Loves creating beautiful web pages.
  • Thinks commercially as well as creatively.
  • Is organised and able to manage multiple projects.
  • Enjoys improving and refining existing work.
  • Has excellent attention to detail.
  • Can write engaging copy.
  • Wants to create work they’re genuinely proud of.

Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, Figma or similar design software would be an advantage.

Knowledge of HTML, CSS or Shopify is useful but not essential.

Retail or e-commerce experience would also be an advantage.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Employee discount
  • Free parking
  • Company pension
  • Casual dress
  • On-site parking, Following significant investment in our business, we’re now embarking on our biggest digital project yet.

Our ambition is simple:

To build one of the finest online shopping experiences in the equestrian industry.

We’re looking for an exceptional creative person to help make that happen.

This is not a typical website role.

We’re not looking for somebody to simply upload products or make the occasional homepage banner.

We’re looking for someone who loves creating beautiful online experiences.

Someone who notices the little details.

Someone who understands that great websites tell stories, inspire customers and make shopping enjoyable.

If you regularly look at websites and think…

“That could be designed better.”

…then we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Be Doing

Every week will be different.

You will continually create and improve content across our website, including:

  • Landing pages
  • Homepage features
  • Brand pages
  • Collection pages
  • Buying guides
  • Product comparison pages
  • Bundle and package pages
  • Seasonal promotions
  • Gift guides
  • Category pages
  • Multi-product feature pages
  • Inspiration pages
  • Educational content
  • Blog articles
  • Instagram graphics
  • Social media campaigns
  • Email campaign graphics
  • Website banners
  • Promotional graphics
  • Customer journey improvements

You’ll also be encouraged to bring your own ideas., Competitive salary, Or Happy to talk to anyone who thinks they are worth it!, * Full-time permanent position.

  • Staff discount.
  • Company pension.
  • On-site parking.
  • Friendly and supportive team.
  • Opportunity to help shape one of the UK’s most ambitious equestrian retail websites., * Casual dress
  • Company pension
  • Employee discount
  • Free parking
  • On-site parking

About the company

Houghton Country has been serving the equestrian community for over 30 years and has grown into one of the UK’s leading equestrian retailers.

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