Graphic Designer - Degree Apprenticeship

In this high pace and varied role, you will learn how creative design supports marketing and communication strategies within financial services.

You will work as part of a friendly, collaborative team and gain hands‑on experience producing high‑quality visual content across digital and print channels.

In your first two years, you will focus on the agency’s owned media titles, Capital Pioneer and Financial Promoter, developing design skills across animation, layout, and editorial design.

You will learn to create magazine spreads, brochures, social media graphics, and digital assets using industry‑standard tools including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, and other major design platforms.

From the very beginning, you will be trained in digital design for social media, print design for publications, and brand‑led visual communication.

You will learn how to work with corporate identity systems, brand guidelines, templates, and style guides to ensure consistency and professionalism across all outputs.

From year two onward, you will begin contributing to the agency’s client teams, applying your design skills across the full creative and marketing mix. This may include designing visual concepts based on research themes, creating graphics, animations, and digital assets for campaigns, supporting podcast and studio‑based video production with visual elements, and producing commercial content in both static and motion formats.

You will be invited to client events and will be expected to manage your own workload as your confidence grows. Some domestic and international travel may be required.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an ambitious agency in a creatively rich, multi‑layered role designed to give you the practical skills, industry experience, and design thinking that will support your long‑term career. The degree apprenticeship will connect classic marketing principles with modern digital design approaches, giving you a strong foundation in both strategic communication and professional creative practice.

Training:

Rhotic Media provides a structured, industry‑focused training programme designed to give the apprentice a deep understanding of the financial sectors they will be designing for. This includes guided learning in capital markets, personal finance, (re)insurance and risk, ensuring the designer understands how digital design concepts are applied within high‑finance communications.

This specialist training is delivered in the workplace across our London and Chelmsford offices and runs alongside the university programme. It ensures the apprentice develops both technical design skills and the financial knowledge required to produce accurate, effective visual content for sophisticated audiences.

In the London office, where this apprenticeship is based, our Lead Graphic Designer will provide day‑to‑day guidance from the very start. They will shadow the apprentice’s workflow, offer hands‑on technical instruction, and support the development of professional design practices across animation, layout, digital content creation and brand‑led design.

This combined approach — industry training, academic study and daily professional mentoring — ensures the apprentice gains the confidence, technical ability and sector understanding needed to produce high‑quality digital and print design for clients operating in complex financial markets.

Training Outcome:

A graphic design apprentice at Rhotic Media can look forward to a career that blends high‑level creative skill with deep financial‑sector understanding. They could progress into roles such as Digital Designer, Art Director, or Brand Designer within financial services or creative agencies. Their specialist knowledge of high‑finance communication also opens doors to niche, well‑paid roles in financial publishing, fintech and corporate communications.

Employer Description:

Rhotic Media is a financial services marketing and events agency. The company owns two media titles - Financial Promoter and Capital Pioneer for which there are associated events.  

It also operates an agency business offering strategic support to global businesses in marketing strategy, content delivery, training, presenting and live event production.

Our clients rely on us to have a comprehensive understanding of the global economic and capital markets landscape to enable them to stand out from their competitors and achieve cut-through in their marketing. Rhotic’s team take client business objectives and translate them into strategies and assets serving an overall corporate aim. They do this through a consultative approach that stems from an ability to recognise important themes and unravel technical jargon. The agency works across three key client segments – capital markets, personal finance and financial technology. These segments span every area of finance, including accounting, banking, insurance, investment, pensions, payments, and securities services.

Working Hours :
Monday, 09.00 until 17.30 - Office based. Tuesday, 09.00 until 17.30 - Office based. Wednesday, 09.00 until 17.30 - Office based. Thursday, 09.00 until 17.30 - University. Friday, 09.00 until 17.30 - Study day. 37.5 hours a week.

Skills:
Attention to detail,Problem solving skills,Presentation skills,Creative