[Hiring] Illustrator / Graphic Designer @Longship Marketing

Role Description

This role supports consumer-facing creative work across several recurring themes and special projects for our B2C ecommerce clients and brands. We're hiring a part-time Illustrator / Graphic Designer (20 hours/week) to create original illustrations and production-ready graphics for both print and digital use. This role works directly with the CEO on special projects as well as recurring creative needs, so the work is varied, hands-on, close to decision-making, and rooted in real B2C ecommerce execution.

This is a strong fit for someone who can move between illustration-led work and commercial design execution:

• Creating original artwork
• Adapting ideas for marketing use
• Preparing files for print
• Translating direction into polished assets that are usable in the real world

This role is especially well suited to a freelancer or independent creative professional who wants more stability and a predictable source of workload, while still enjoying variety in themes, formats, and project types.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial portfolio showing real illustration and graphic design work for brands, products, media, or campaigns
• Clear evidence that you are comfortable and credible in at least one of these thematic areas:
  • Handmade children's toys / warm child-friendly product graphics
  • Sports & motivation themed graphics / merch / print-on-demand work
  • Fantasy / sci-fi themed illustration or related visual work
• Ability to create both original artwork and layout-based marketing assets
• Experience producing creative for both print and digital formats in a B2C ecommerce or consumer-facing context
• Strong command of design fundamentals: composition, hierarchy, typography, color, and visual storytelling
• Strong working proficiency in Figma for day-to-day design work
• Familiarity with Adobe design tools such as Illustrator and Photoshop when task-specific work requires them
• Ability to prepare practical, production-ready source files and exports for downstream use
• Comfortable handling print and web color considerations, including the differences between screen-first and print-ready outputs
• Good judgment about adapting a concept across channels instead of treating every asset as a one-off
• Comfortable working in English in a fully remote, asynchronous environment
• Self-starter who can work independently, manage time well, and handle revisions professionally

Requirements

• Ability to work credibly across two or more of our thematic areas
• Experience with greeting cards, gift products, apparel graphics, or print-on-demand production
• Experience creating performance marketing creative for Meta ads, landing pages, or ecommerce campaigns
• Familiarity with Shopify, WordPress, or ecommerce content workflows
• Experience creating visual systems, template libraries, or lightweight brand guidelines
• Comfort working in a retainer-like, ongoing part-time relationship with shifting project mix over time
• Understanding of German-market consumer brands, even if German language is not required
• Excitement about experimentation, visual ingenuity, and finding unexpected creative directions that still serve commercial goals
• Interest in integrating cutting-edge AI tools into the workflow for rapid drafting or ideation, while preserving hand-crafted final output quality
• Interest in sci-fi / fantasy media, handmade children's products, sports culture, or gift-oriented consumer brands
• Basic motion, simple animation, or mockup presentation skills

Benefits

• Join an international, fully remote team based around the world
• Flexible working hours: outside of critical meetings, work the hours that suit you and your lifestyle best
• Asynchronous working with meaningful calls - Slack, Loom, and occasional Zoom
• Space for taking initiative and pushing forward your own ideas
• Access to the courses and training materials you need to grow in this position
• A team-first culture that is supportive and stable
• 28 holidays per year + national holidays
• Real room for experimentation and imaginative creative work across B2C ecommerce themes that are not boxed into one narrow aesthetic
• Opportunity to help shape an Agentic AI-assisted drafting workflow using cutting-edge tools, while keeping final creative craft firmly human-led
• Use premium, cutting-edge tools in AI and automation with pro licenses