Tailfin | Bristol | Marketing Team | Minimum 3 days in office
The role at a glance
- Location: Bristol
- Job type: Mid-Weight Artworker | Full-time
- Working pattern: Minimum 3 days per week in our Bristol office – Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
- Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
- Core focus: Artworking, production design, photo retouching and adapting creative across marketing channels
- Essential skills: Strong Adobe Creative Suite skills – Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator
- Key requirement: Confident, accurate photo retouching is essential
- Email: Opportunity to design and build marketing campaigns and flows in Klaviyo
- Channels: Email, web, social, paid media, campaigns and occasional print/events
- Application: CV + portfolio required
- Industry: Premium cycling, bikepacking & outdoor adventure
- Benefits: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, optional 10 additional unpaid days, pension and access to Tailfin bikepacking equipment
About Tailfin
Tailfin makes technical, beautifully engineered bikepacking equipment for riders who take their adventures seriously.
Over the past 10 years, we've grown from a small workshop into a major brand competing with some of the biggest names in the category.
Our strength lies in our products, brand and content, and we communicate with a worldwide customer base through warm, approachable and highly considered creative.
We're now looking for a Mid-Weight Artworker to help bring that brand to life across every customer touchpoint.
Based in Bristol, we're a close-knit team of 29 passionate about cycling, bikepacking and outdoor adventure.
The Opportunity
This is a production-focused creative role within our marketing team, with responsibility for turning creative direction and brand guidelines into finished, accurate and consistently high-quality assets.
You'll work closely with our Head of Design, Graphic Designer, CRM Manager and Studio Photographer, helping to remove a key production bottleneck and increase the volume and quality of creative we can deliver.
A major part of the role will be:
- Designing and building more of our marketing emails and flows
- Editing and retouching product and campaign photography, particularly around product launches
- Creating and adapting web assets
- Ensuring our brand is presented consistently and at a high level across every channel
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who genuinely enjoys the craft of clean, accurate and considered production work, and who wants to develop their skills within a fast-moving, ambitious premium brand.
What You'll DoArtworking & Production
- Turn creative concepts, briefs and brand guidelines into polished, production-ready assets
- Adapt campaign creative across social, paid media, email, web and occasional print/event applications
- Produce web assets including banners, landing pages and product-page graphics
- Resize and adapt existing creative while maintaining visual consistency and quality
- Ensure all work adheres closely to Tailfin's brand guidelines and flag inconsistencies when you spot them
Photography
- Edit and retouch product and campaign photography, particularly for product launches
- Work closely with our Studio Photographer to select, prepare and refine imagery
- Review large image sets and identify the strongest selects for use across campaigns
- Ensure imagery meets the quality and positioning expected of a premium technical brand
Email & CRM
- Work with our CRM Manager to design and build email campaigns and flows in Klaviyo
- Translate creative briefs into effective, on-brand email designs
- Learn and develop your understanding of email marketing tools and production processes
What You'll BringEssential
- Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator
- Confident and accurate photo retouching skills – this is essential
- Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to spot when something isn't quite right
- Strong understanding of layout, typography and image selection
- Ability to follow brand guidelines precisely and maintain consistency across multiple channels
- Ability to manage several projects and deadlines simultaneously without compromising quality
- A strong production mindset – you enjoy getting the details right and delivering polished final assets
- A portfolio demonstrating clean, accurate and high-quality production work
- Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new tools, particularly Klaviyo, if you haven't used it before
- Based in Bristol or willing to relocate
- Able to work a minimum of 3 days per week in our Bristol office (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday)
We'll judge talent and portfolio more than years of experience, so don't be put off if you don't have a traditional career path or a specific number of years under your belt.
Highly Desirable
- A few years' experience in a similar artworking, artwork production or design production role
- Experience working with a premium, technical or considered product brand
- Experience in outdoor, cycling, sports, lifestyle or ecommerce/DTC brands
- Genuine interest in cycling, bikepacking or outdoor adventure
- Experience working within established brand guidelines
- Experience with Figma
- Familiarity with Klaviyo or another email service provider (ESP)
- Basic HTML/CSS knowledge for email
- Understanding of premium brand positioning and how to communicate quality without relying on discounting
The Team & Working Environment
You'll join our 9-person marketing team and work closely with experienced designers, photographers and CRM specialists.
Expect:
- Autonomy and ownership
- A fast-moving environment
- High standards and attention to detail
- Collaboration with experienced creative specialists
- Plenty of opportunities to learn and develop
- The chance to have a genuine impact as Tailfin continues to grow
Working arrangement: Minimum 3 days per week in our Bristol office – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Why Tailfin?
Premium brand with purpose
We make quality products designed to help people explore by bike. We believe in making durable, considered equipment rather than disposable gear.
Room to grow
Tailfin is growing, and this role has genuine scope to develop alongside the business.
Strong creative foundation
You'll be joining a brand with an established visual identity, strong products and a high-quality content operation.
A team that cares
We're passionate about what we do. Everyone takes ownership, collaborates and cares deeply about the quality of the work.
An industry you'll love
If cycling, bikepacking and outdoor adventure are already part of your world, you'll be surrounded by people who share that passion.
Bristol
A vibrant, cycle-friendly city with easy access to the outdoors – and, naturally, plenty of bikepacking equipment available to you.
Package
- Competitive salary, dependent on experience
- Full-time role
- Minimum 3 days per week in our Bristol office
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Option to take an additional 10 days unpaid leave
- Pension contribution
- Access to Tailfin bikepacking equipment
- Genuine opportunities for career development as the company scales
How to Apply
Please send your CV and portfolio (or portfolio link) to [email protected].
Include a short note explaining why you'd like to join Tailfin and what interests you about the role.
We're reviewing applications immediately and will move quickly for strong candidates.
Pay: From £28,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Bristol BS1 6UX: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- What connects you to our brand or the bikepacking/outdoor space?
Work Location: In person
