Midweight Graphic Designer, Europe

Full time | UK Remote or optional Hybrid in London

Social Element is a global social media agency connecting brands and people socially. Our core purpose is to make better social for brands and social better for society.

We are looking for an exceptional Graphic Designer to join our Creative Innovation team to help fulfil our mission through the work we do with some of the world’s largest brands across Europe. You will also help shape our output as a Social Element brand and build our movement to Make Social Better.

Not a mean feat, hey? But our promise to you is that no one day will be the same, and you’ll go to sleep every night knowing you’ve built beautiful work that’s good for people.

Think this could be you? Read on, dear reader...

About You

You are a proven Graphic Designer at midweight level, who is looking for a role that will not only fill your portfolio with exceptional socially-led work, but fill your soul with work that’s good for brands, people and society.

Craft and attention to detail is important to you, but you can equally dial up or down high level craft or mobile-first low-fi designs depending on the client and campaign. You think outside the box when it comes to creating and delivering socially-native content for a variety of clients and driving engagement with a brand’s community.

You are comfortable creating for mobile and digital screen, as much as you are designing for print when needed. We might work in social media, but our purpose is to help brands socialise, and that will include activations both URL and IRL.

You're an ideas person who is able to collaborate with other departments to create eye-popping, thumb-stopping visuals on behalf of a brand and also for Social Element. Your proactive nature means that you have a lot to bring to the table and are always looking for ways to introduce new concepts and ideas.

You will report into the Creative Innovation Director, and work alongside Social Creatives, Content Creators and Social Media Managers.

Roles Responsibilities

• Day-to-day creation of on-trend and highly shareable social content that drives engagement and connection with the brand's community. Includes stills, short-form video (ex. Reels and TikTok) and GIFs.

• Build Social Brand Guidelines for our clients using their existing brand guidelines and translating them into social-first guidance for our own content creation team, as well as the clients teams.

• Capitalising on real-time cultural opportunities from our social media management teams by turning them into social-first content for named brands.

• Supporting your design recommendations through strong written, editing, presentation, and communication skills.

• Maintaining social fluency - understanding social trends and nuances as they emerge.

• Stay current with social platforms trends capabilities and offerings (including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook.)

• Support the marketing team in delivering advertising, publicity, and general marketing campaigns.

• Save all final content assets onto the Social Element server for easy access for anyone within the agency.

• Lead on design for internal and external facing decks, case study decks, pitch decks.

• When needed, manage the creation of case study decks and videos.

• Ensure that DEI is baked into everything we do and champion this within creativity in the agency.

Skills Qualities

• You are as comfortable in Adobe Creative Cloud as you are in Capcut.

• An ideas person, able to look at the big picture

• Can work with some levels of ambiguity

• A thorough understanding of the evolving social media landscape, with a continuous thirst to learn more.

• A joyful collaborator and solution orientated

• Ability to set clear objectives, timelines and deadlines for own work

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite applications.

• Preferred skills in Canva, basic creation skills in CapCut and other mobile editing tools when needed.

• Optional skills in AI image generation (Firefly) and in motion (Premiere, After Effects)

Benefits

🏠 Remote/Optional hybrid working (with occasional travel)

🏖️ 33 days of holiday (including the bank holidays)

🎂 Birthday off

✨ Annual Occasion Day off for an important event (eg moving house, getting married)

❤️ 1 Volunteer day off

🧠 4 Wellbeing days off

🌞 Flexible Fridays (Working half day)

👓 Eye care: Contributions towards eye tests and glasses

🏥 Enhanced sick pay: 4 weeks full pay, 4 weeks half pay

👪 Enhanced family friendly policies

🤗 Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing support

🛍️ Access to our discounts website

The Hiring Process

The hiring process for this position will be made up of the following stages:

💟 Culture Connect: an investigative interview with one of our Talent team. 

⭐ Skills Experience: an interview where you get to meet some of the team.

🔍 Assignment Phase: A presentation designed to showcase your skills in front of key team members

*🖼️ As part of your application we will also ask for a portfolio of your work so please feel free to showcase not only your professional work but personal creative work and/or the type of content you want to produce on behalf of brands. 

The Social Element Behaviours For Success

Be focused and decisive 🔥

Be brave and inspirational 🦸

Be rigorous in our approach 🕵️

Be considered and inclusive 🤗

Be loud and proud 🔊

Our Diversity, Equality Inclusion Commitment

At The Social Element, we pride ourselves on a hiring process that is fair, transparent, and deeply focused on respecting the unique skills and experiences each candidate brings. We warmly welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, especially from those who have beenhistorically under-represented groups.

We value diverse thinkers and encourage those who have felt overlooked or unsure due to the confidence gap or imposter syndrome to apply — your unique talents and viewpoints are exactly what we might need.

We are committed to a supportive and inclusive application process. If there are accommodations or adjustments you need at any stage of the recruitment, please let us know in the application. We aim to ensure you feel fully supported throughout.

How To Apply 🖊️

If all this sounds like you, simply upload your CV/resume and complete the application form. While a cover letter is optional, we welcome any other way for you to share what draws you and motivates you about this role and the agency.

We encourage candidates to express their interest and motivation in the format that best showcases their talents. Here are a few ideas, please feel free to explore any method that suits you best (even if not included in the list of examples)

• A written cover letter

• A short video, reel or TikTok

• An Online Portfolio

• A digital board

• Any other way you see best fit to showcase who you are, what motivates you about this role and/or your experience/skills you want to highlight.

We are excited to receive your application! ❤️

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