Senior Graphic Designer; Maternity Cover

Senior Graphic Designer (Maternity Cover)

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Where: Remote - Accessible to London for occasional meetings

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Type: 8 Month Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover - Feb 2026 to Nov 2026)

🚀 Join Us at Social Element! 🌟 Founded 23 years ago, Social Element is a leading global and independent full‑service 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 with a strong skill set in art direction to join our Creative & Innovation team.

You’ll help fulfil our mission by delivering beautiful, meaningful work for some of the world’s largest brands globally, producing work that’s good for people and the wider world.

Our promise to you is that no two days will ever be the same. You’ll go to sleep each night knowing you’ve built creative that is not only stunning but impactful.

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

You are a proven Graphic Designer comfortably fulfilling a role across both Creative and Design: concepting solo and collaboratively, and often taking those concepts into design for client output. You have strong graphic design skills and extensive experience in the industry helping brands show up as themselves whatever the medium. You have exceptional attention to detail and craft and know when to dial it up for high‑level campaign craft, or pare it back for mobile‑first, low‑fi designs tailored to the specific needs of the client and campaign.

You consistently think outside the box when concepting, creating, and delivering engaging, socially‑native content that sparks genuine engagement within brand communities.

You’re a true ideas person, comfortable collaborating with a broad creative team to create eye‑popping, thumb‑stopping visuals for our clients. You have a proactive approach, always bringing fresh thinking to the table, whether it’s introducing innovative concepts, driving self‑initiated projects, or identifying new creative opportunities for the agency.

You are actively up to speed on how brands are evolving on social. While social media is our world, you’ll also play a part in helping brands socialise beyond digital. This means collaborating across concept, art direction, and design for new and existing brand campaigns, always guided by brand guidelines and agency strategy to ideate and deliver 360 / social‑first campaigns.

• Art direct, craft and create on‑trend, highly shareable social content that drives engagement and connection with brand communities, including stills, GIFs, and short‑form video (Reels, Tik Tok).
• Build Social Brand Guidelines for clients by translating their existing brand guidelines into social‑first frameworks for our content creation team and clients—always seeking to enhance visual approaches for social.
• Design for internal and external facing decks, case study decks, pitch decks - in a conceptual, branding and design capacity, for both brands and Social Element.
• Capitalise on real‑time cultural opportunities identified by our social media management teams by swiftly turning them into relevant, thumb‑stopping, social‑first content for brands.
• Produce and support design recommendations with strong written, editing, presentation, and communication skills.
• Lead visual concepting, look & feel, and design across a variety of internal and client‑facing projects, collaborating closely with our Creative team, Content Creators, and Social Media Managers.
• Maintain social fluency by staying up‑to‑date with new platform trends, features, and creative best practices across Tik Tok, Instagram, You Tube, Pinterest, and Facebook.
• Always be “switched on” to new design and creative ideas, proactively suggesting fresh approaches for brands we work with and for The Social Element itself.

• You are proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud and willing to learn more on Cap Cut to support the team further in the future.
• An ideas person, able to look at the big picture, but also see the small details and always be solution oriented.
• Can work with some levels of ambiguity, whilst always having your own solutions and ideas…