Conceptual Designer

Connecting Plots Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Connecting Plots in Sydney is seeking a Conceptual Designer to craft creative concepts and build distinctive visual identities for a range of brands, then roll them out across broadcast, digital and social. You’ll work with a team to shape ideas from brief to finished identity, adapting concepts across assets and channels.

You’ll collaborate with a talented group of creatives, mentor junior designers, and contribute to a connected, full‑service ecosystem that aims to set new standards in

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a design or conceptual design role within an agency environment.
• Strong command of design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• A solid base of animation and motion skills
• Highly creative and imaginative, with strong visual craft across layout and type.
• A portfolio that shows both big ideas and the craft to land them.
• An interest in popular culture and new advertising trends and techniques.
• A high level of awareness of how customers experience design.
• Able to explain and justify your ideas clearly.
• A self‑starter with strong multi-tasking and time management, who anticipates problems before they happen.
• Able to work openly and responsibly with account management, production and the wider team.

Responsibilities

• Understanding creative briefs and knowing what the right solution is.
• Keeping across design trends and what different audiences like and respond to.
• Developing concepts and turning them into unique identities and visual worlds, with members of the wider creative team or solo if required.
• Designing and rolling those identities out across every channel and asset.
• Presenting your ideas internally and to clients.
• Working with production to get the work made on time and on budget.

Skills

Design experience

Adobe Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Animation/motion

Brand identity

Portfolio

Presentation

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Job description

Attention is an open market. Companies aren’t just competing with each other, they’re competing with everything. It’s no wonder people don’t care about brands anymore.

Connecting Plots is an Emmy® and Effie®‑awarded creative communications group. We believe brands have to earn attention, and feeling is the biggest multiplier of effectiveness. So we combine strong creative, tight comms planning and media into one powerfully effective punch. Our position is “Imagination in every impression.”

You're joining a team that doesn't just produce ideas, it plans where those ideas live and flourish. With our expanded suite of capabilities across PR, digital, media, social and production, this role offers a rare chance to create work across a truly connected, full-service ecosystem . If you thrive on merging creative imagination with craft, this is your role.

Role Overview

As Conceptual Designer, you’ll come up with creative concepts and build unique visual identities for a range of brands, then roll them out across broadcast, digital, social and beyond. Our clients are varied, so no two weeks look the same.

We want someone who loves the thinking and the doing, as happy cracking the idea as rolling the finished identity out across every asset. If something’s broken, you roll your sleeves up and help fix it.

You have a flair for big ideas, a keen eye for design and brand aesthetics, and a feel for what earns attention. You want to create the best shit out there for audiences of all ages, shapes, sizes, nationalities and genders. And you know the work only counts if it works for our clients and lives in culture, not just if it wins awards.

You’ll have a team of creatives around you to mentor you and help you grow your skills even further. You believe in our vision to crack the agency model of the future and help our industry future‑proof itself. And you want to play your part in building something different.

About Connecting Plots

Attention is an open market. Companies aren’t just competing with each other, they’re competing with everything. It’s no wonder people don’t care about brands anymore.

Connecting Plots is an Emmy® and Effie®‑awarded creative communications group. We believe brands have to earn attention, and feeling is the biggest multiplier of effectiveness. So we combine strong creative, tight comms planning and media into one powerfully effective punch. Our position is “Imagination in every impression.”

You're joining a team that doesn't just produce ideas, it plans where those ideas live and flourish. With our expanded suite of capabilities across PR, digital, media, social and production, this role offers a rare chance to create work across a truly connected, full-service ecosystem . If you thrive on merging creative imagination with craft, this is your role.

As Conceptual Designer, you’ll come up with creative concepts and build unique visual identities for a range of brands, then roll them out across broadcast, digital, social and beyond. Our clients are varied, so no two weeks look the same.

We want someone who loves the thinking and the doing, as happy cracking the idea as rolling the finished identity out across every asset. If something’s broken, you roll your sleeves up and help fix it.

You have a flair for big ideas, a keen eye for design and brand aesthetics, and a feel for what earns attention. You want to create the best shit out there for audiences of all ages, shapes, sizes, nationalities and genders. And you know the work only counts if it works for our clients and lives in culture, not just if it wins awards.

You’ll have a team of creatives around you to mentor you and help you grow your skills even further. You believe in our vision to crack the agency model of the future and help our industry future‑proof itself. And you want to play your part in building something different.

Key responsibilities

• Understanding creative briefs and knowing what the right solution is.
• Keeping across design trends and what different audiences like and respond to.
• Developing concepts and turning them into unique identities and visual worlds, with members of the wider creative team or solo if required.
• Designing and rolling those identities out across every channel and asset.
• Presenting your ideas internally and to clients.
• Working with production to get the work made on time and on budget.

Key Skills & Requirements

• 5+ years in a design or conceptual design role within an agency environment.
• Strong command of design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign etc.).
• A solid base of animation and motion skills
• Highly creative and imaginative, with strong visual craft across layout and type.
• A portfolio that shows both big ideas and the craft to land them.
• An interest in popular culture and new advertising trends and techniques.
• A high level of awareness of how customers experience design.
• Able to explain and justify your ideas clearly.
• A self‑starter with strong multi-tasking and time management, who anticipates problems before they happen.
• Able to work openly and responsibly with account management, production and the wider team.