Midweight Designer

We’re looking for someone with excellent creative skills and relevant agency or in-house experience. Based in either Manchester or Leeds, with a hybrid home and office working pattern, you will be responsible for Social’s design output across our offices in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and London. You’ll work on a wide range of design projects, bringing ideas to life and helping us to create award-winning campaigns.

It’s important that you are a strong conceptual designer but are equally capable of developing a design idea from initial concept through to final artwork. You’ll have a central role in our agency team and be comfortable presenting your ideas both internally and directly to clients, as well as taking part in new business pitch processes.

Social is a full-service PR, public affairs, marketing and creative agency – with specialist teams delivering ESG communications, strategy, events and video.  We are a B-Corp and have a highly experienced team of ex-journalists, communications professionals, events specialists, consultants and creative sparks. A strong portfolio of clients spans the property, transport, energy, education, housing and public sectors.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Collaborate across the agency on design projects and ensure high quality output
• Manage and schedule your workflow
• Ensure design jobs are delivered on time and within budget
• Respond to the varied creative and design requirements of a multi-office agency team

We are looking for:

• Ambition to grow our agency’s design service
• Team-first and a can-do attitude
• Personable approach, able to build strong working relationships with colleagues across different locations and with clients
• Experience in designing for both on and offline channels
• Ability to design assets suitable for various communications channels (e.g. publications, marketing materials, digital channels, video, B2B and B2C campaigns)
• Excellent layout and typographical skills
• Attention to detail with a right first time mentality
• Excellent working knowledge of Creative Cloud (inc. InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator).
• Knowledge of After Effects and XD would be desirable but not essential
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint
• Commercial insight and experience

Benefits of working at Social

As a purpose-driven business and a registered B-Corp,  we focus on creating positive impact for people, places and the planet. Some of the benefits of working at Social include:

• Supportive and compassionate working culture
• Strong commitment to learning and development
• Career progression opportunities within a growing, ambitious business
• Competitive salary
• Flexible working
• Thirty days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Enhanced sickness, compassionate, maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Pension scheme
• Support for volunteering
• Access to discretionary company bonus scheme
• Regular team away days and socials

This is a fantastic opportunity to start in a career at an award-winning, fast growing and purpose driven agency. Please send us your CV and a short note about why you’re interested in the role to julian.pearce@social.co.uk or complete the form below.