[Hiring] Freelance Senior Designer @We Are Social

Role Description

We Are Social is looking for a Freelance Senior Designer to join our growing team! This role is responsible for being a strategic visual powerhouse and mentor within the team. You bridge the gap between high-level client strategy and flawless creative execution, crafting nuanced, sophisticated visual stories that solve complex business challenges. Most importantly, the work you create demonstrates your strong social media craft and gets people talking.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a design, motion, or editing role
• Portfolio showcasing an understanding of short-form content best practices and channels
• Expert-level mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite
• Advanced knowledge of motion/video workflows
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment and managing multiple projects at a time
• Comfortable collaborating across departments, building relationships, and navigating team dynamics

Requirements

• Contribute strategically to large-scale campaigns, ensuring that every design choice is nuanced, sophisticated, and aligned with long-term brand goals
• Present creative ideas directly to clients with confidence; decode ambiguous client feedback into actionable, high-priority tasks for the broader creative team
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining extreme focus and quality under the pressure of shifting requirements
• Confidently defend sophisticated design choices to senior leadership while navigating constraints like budget, evolving scopes, and brand integrity
• Identify trends and opportunities as they emerge in social that stay true to our brands
• Create a wide range of content, from photography to videography, design, and platform tools that always suits the client, moment, and idea
• Ability to switch between styles while still experimenting and looking for unique opportunities to make work ownable and talked about
• Ideate, build, shoot, and edit effective stories that match the quality of each social platform
• Design visually engaging presentations, create mockups & light retouching as needed that help sell creative ideas to top clients in the industry
• Work collaboratively with a large team of creatives from ideation to execution, helping to ensure ideas are created and brought to life
• Identify and propose innovative brand activations using generative AI, transforming emerging tech capabilities into tangible creative opportunities for clients
• Leverage tools to develop production-ready visual concepts and storyboards for major pitches and client presentations
• Utilize Gemini for Google Slides to transform creative briefs into compelling, professionally designed presentation decks rapidly

Benefits

• We like to laugh, we live for celeb gossip and we’re great on AUX
• Our passport program lets you explore and work from one of our 18 other offices worldwide, including Paris, Singapore, Madrid, Dubai, London and more
• We know how to celebrate our wins and our losses (it’s how we learn)
• From carbon offsets to community kitchens, we’re passionate about making a difference
• Great snacks available in the kitchen