About the Role
We are looking for a Social-First Graphic Designer who can bring ideas to life through strong visual storytelling, animation, and motion-led content. This is not a traditional graphic design role; we need someone who understands how people consume content on social media and can create scroll-stopping, platform-native content across static, animated, and video formats.
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What You’ll Be Doing
Social-First Creative
- Social-First Concepting: Develop creative concepts and content ideas specifically designed for social platforms and their audiences.
- Scroll-Stopping Content: Create engaging, visually strong content across Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and other platforms.
- Platform & Trend Awareness: Adapt creative to platform formats, behaviors, and trends, creating content that feels native rather than repurposed.
Graphic Design & Visual Content
- Design: Create high-quality static and animated digital assets across social, campaigns, presentations, and branded content.
- Brand: Develop fresh visual concepts that align with client brand guidelines and creative direction.
- Adapt: Resize, adapt and maintain visual consistency across platforms and formats while pushing creative boundaries.
Animation & Motion Design
- Animate: Bring static designs to life through animation, motion graphics, transitions, and effects.
- Create & Edit: Produce animated social content, GIFs, Reels, and short-form video with strong visual storytelling.
- Innovate: Stay ahead of emerging animation techniques, formats, and tools to keep content fresh and engaging.
Creative Collaboration
- Collaborate: Bring a strong visual and motion perspective to pitches, proposals, and campaign concepts. Support wider company initiatives and campaigns with creative and content requirements.
- Contribute: Actively participate in creative brainstorming and identify opportunities to make content more engaging.
- Communicate: Work with clients and internal teams to understand briefs, incorporate feedback, and deliver creative solutions.
Multimedia Production
- Produce, edit, and curate visual content including photography, graphics, video, animation, and GIFs.
- Repurpose and adapt existing assets into multiple social-first formats.
- Ensure all content is delivered to a high creative and technical standard.
Tools & Technology
You will be expected to be highly comfortable working across a range of creative and digital tools, including:
- Canva for fast-paced digital content and presentations and collaboration.
- Adobe Creative Suite - particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
- Frame.io for creative review and collaboration.
- Dropbox and Google Drive for asset management and storage.
- AI and emerging creative technologies like Firefly, Midjourney, Runway, and ChatGPT.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of graphic design experience with a strong portfolio showcasing social-first design, animation, motion graphics, and video content.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects, plus strong experience with Canva, CapCut, and other social content tools.
- Strong understanding of social platforms and trends, with the ability to create engaging, platform-native content for Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and other channels.
- Strong creative and conceptual thinking, with the ability to take a brief from initial idea through to final execution while maintaining brand consistency and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication, organization, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced agency environment.
- Proactive, collaborative, and adaptable, with a genuine interest in emerging creative technologies, AI, trends, and new ways of working.
