BrightCarbon is a fast-growing business communications agency, based in Manchester, but with staff across the UK and in the USA. We help our clients with their presentations and eLearning, by taking their text-heavy content, and finding the right visuals and animations to tell their stories in ways that are compelling and persuasive.

We help our customers to launch their products, train their staff, and win big deals. Most of what we do is to create presentations and learning content, but we also create motion graphics, infographics, and pretty much anything that uses our visual storytelling abilities. Check out the portfolio on our website for examples – we don’t use bullet points.

BrightCarbon is looking to recruit a new design consultant to work with a diverse global client-base. The majority of the role consists of designing the right visual sequences to effectively convey a client’s messages. Working alone or in a small team for each project, you will help translate what a client is trying to say into the right images, graphs, charts, and animated sequences to help get the point across clearly and beautifully.

In a business world where a lot of communication is done using PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides, you will soon become fluent. You’ll get to work on a huge mix of projects – from informal explainer videos for new start-ups, to quick turnaround presentations and infographics for some of the world’s biggest companies and best-known brands, to sophisticated eLearning viewed by 1000s of people. You need to be comfortable with Photoshop and Illustrator. We’ll teach you presentation and eLearning software from scratch to an advanced level. Some of our designers work on Mac, and others on PC.

This is an unusual role. For the right candidate, this could be a brilliant opportunity to do varied and rewarding work with a high degree of autonomy, and as part of an interesting and transparent company. As well as a contributory pension, we offer a generous profit-share bonus scheme; individual training, art, and inspiration budgets; a ‘work from anywhere’ scheme; we offset our carbon, donate plenty of work for charities, and give 1% of our revenue to environmental causes. Oh, and everybody gets their birthday and Christmas Eve off as extra paid leave.

We are looking for a talented designer who thinks visually, works precisely, and who can make things look beautiful. We would expect you to have some real-world design experience, and a strong portfolio. Some of our design team have degrees in graphic design or animation – but others are self-taught; what we really care about is what you can do. If you want to work on six-month conceptual projects, this probably isn’t for you – our typical projects last weeks (or days) not months. We think that variety – and our collaborative culture – keeps things interesting. Because we’ve been growing fast, there’s a real chance to make progress in your career too.

The right sort of person will be fast and accurate, enjoy working on a range of projects, and be comfortable working with others. You probably have a creative side outside of work – be that in a quirky hobby or an unusual interest.

This job could be based out of our Manchester (Ancoats) or Bristol (Old Market) office, but as long as we can employ you in the UK we’re flexible on location. As long as the work gets done (well) – we don’t much care if it is done from home or the local coffee shop, as long as clients are happy. Not every great candidate lives – or wants to live – in a major city. We organise co-working space or office shares for our staff in a number of towns and cities. A significant proportion of the company’s work is outside of the UK and while most of this is delivered remotely, some national and international travel may be required.

BrightCarbon is an inclusive company and we welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities. Candidates of any nationality; of black, white, Asian, or minority ethnic heritage; of any religious belief; of any working age; members of the LGBTQ+ community; those who are neurodivergent; and those with disabilities are encouraged to apply to join our increasingly diverse team. We are happy to support with any reasonable adjustments that are needed.

To apply, please send your DESIGNED CV IN PDF FORMAT via our email address careers @ brightcarbon . com (without the spaces) with a link to your portfolio.

As a ‘Word’ of warning – if it seems like you really don’t care what your CV looks like, we won’t interview you. Please don’t send huge attachments (5MB limit). Mark your applications for Joby Blume’s attention.

BrightCarbon is a fast-growing business communications agency, based in Manchester, but with staff across the UK and in the USA. We help our clients with their presentations and eLearning, by taking their text-heavy content, and finding the right visuals and animations to tell their stories in ways that are compelling and persuasive.

BrightCarbon is looking to recruit a bookkeeper to support the smooth running of the business.

As our bookkeeper, you’ll be keeping our daily finances in order.

You’ll be working on Xero and Dext to raise sales invoices, process purchase invoices and expense claims, and reconcile payments including multi-currency transactions.

You’ll maintain our sales order process by monitoring sales orders against sales invoiced. You will also Upload sales invoices to third party procurement software and work with our accountants to report on the completion of projects for revenue recognition purposes.

You’ll be supporting our credit control function. This includes generating reports for clients regarding open invoices, monitoring and chasing any overdue debts and liaising with clients about discrepancies with payments.

You’ll help our payroll function to run smoothly by managing and updating payroll information for employees and updating our trackers with employment information (salary, perk budgets, time off, working patterns).

You’ll keep our purchase system up to date by monitoring, setting up and maintaining our subscriptions for services like Adobe, Microsoft Office, etc. You’ll also organise pay runs including supplier invoices and staff payments to get things ready for approval.

Your role may also include running ad-hoc reports on team requests or business needs, providing information requested from our accountants, and supporting the production of management information reports twice each month.

We are looking for someone who is (i) good with people, (ii) good with computers, and (iii) good at managing their time and organising things. More specifically that means (a) someone who enjoys working with others, communicates clearly on the phone and by email, and is a good listener; (b) someone who works accurately and with excellent attention to detail, is confident learning new software, and who is comfortable working with numbers; (c) someone who can work to deadlines, who can prioritise their own time and juggle demands, and who gets stuff done.

The ideal candidate will have AAT level 3 qualification or greater and experience using Xero.

The right person for this role will be intelligent, super-organised, a people person, and like learning about new things. Working well with others – both colleagues and clients – is important for this role.

BrightCarbon is an inclusive company and we welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities. Candidates of any nationality; of black, white, Asian, or minority ethnic heritage; of any religious belief; of any working age; members of the LGBTQ+ community; those who are neurodivergent; and those with disabilities are encouraged to apply to join our increasingly diverse team. We are happy to support with any reasonable adjustments that are needed. We’re open to part-time and flexible working and understand that many great candidates aren’t available for a full-time 9-5 role.

This isn’t a job that anyone could do all of immediately – full and extensive training will be given in our systems and processes. A high-level of responsibility will be given from an early stage. Then, if we like you, we’ll be happy to invest in you.

For the right candidate we’ll be flexible on location. As long as the work gets done (well) – we don’t much care if it is done from our office in Manchester (Ancoats) full time, or after the initial few weeks of training, fully from home, as long as you can work effectively. Some national travel may be required once or twice a year to support our internal events.

To apply, please send your curriculum vitae with covering letter to careers (at) brightcarbon.com (no spaces) with Bookkeeper in the subject line. Address your cover letter to Karl Parry. Spending a bit of time tailoring what you send for this particular role will greatly increase your chances of being called for interview.