Creative Designer

Elastic; Sydney; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & development

IVE Care program

Staff discounts

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Creative Designer to join our Sydney team. You will turn strategic thinking and creative concepts into clear, compelling design across campaigns, digital, social, activations, print and presentations. You’ll collaborate with the wider creative team from early thinking through to final delivery, bringing strong design craft and a practical, solution-focused approach to every brief.

Location: Sydney. Employment type: Full time. Start date: ASAP.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a Designer in an agency or fast-paced environment.
• A confident communicator who can clearly present ideas and collaborate across teams.
• Organised, self-motivated, and comfortable juggling multiple projects while keeping an eye on the details.
• Skilled across Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat) with a great eye for layout, typography, and storytelling.
• Experience designing for campaigns and creating assets across print, digital, social and presentations.
• Interested in using AI tools to explore ideas, improve workflows and support creative development, with good judgement around quality and originality.
• Confident using Figma as part of your design workflow.
• A problem solver who takes initiative, thinks ahead, and loves finding smart design solutions.
• A team player who enjoys collaborating with strategists, producers, and creatives to bring ideas to life.

Responsibilities

• Translate concepts and information into clear, impactful visual storytelling.
• Work closely with senior creatives to develop and deliver engaging design across campaigns, brand, digital, social, print and presentations.
• Collaborate with producers, strategists, and creative teams to develop compelling design solutions that respond to the brief.
• Ensure consistency of branding, messaging, and design elements across all creative materials.
• Adapt and extend creative across multiple formats and channels, from hero key visuals through to full campaign rollouts.
• Prepare accurate, production ready artwork and files for print, digital and social delivery, working to specs and deadlines.
• Contribute ideas in brainstorms and early concept development, helping shape the creative from the start.
• Present design work and rationale clearly to the internal team and, where required, to clients.
• Manage multiple projects at once, prioritising workload and keeping work on brief, on time and to a high standard.
• Respond to feedback constructively and refine work through rounds of amends with care and attention to detail.
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to explore ideas and improve workflows, in line with Elastic’s AI policy.
• Stay across design trends, emerging formats and new tools, bringing fresh thinking to the team.

Skills

Brand storytelling

Creative concepting

Design craft

Adobe Creative Suite

Print & digital design

Campaign design

AI tooling awareness

Figma

Collaboration

Time management

Tools

Figma

InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

Job description

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Sydney NSW
Job Category: Other

At Elastic, we believe the best opportunities are found by stretching beyond the expected.

We’re looking for a Creative Designer to join our diverse Sydney team. Someone with a love for brand, storytelling, design, creativity, and big ideas. You’ll play a key role in bringing creative concepts to life across campaigns, digital, social, activations, print and presentations. This is a great opportunity to collaborate with a talented, supportive team and contribute to a range of exciting projects.

About Us...

Elastic is a creative agency built around ideas designed to work.

With teams in Sydney and Melbourne, we bring strategy, creativity and production together from the start, helping brands stretch beyond the expected and turn fresh thinking into ideas designed to work.

We work across categories including FMCG, retail, automotive, home, construction, financial services and social impact. From campaigns and content to brand experiences and integrated rollouts, we create work designed for the places people actually see, feel and engage with it.

As part of IVE Group, Australia’s largest diversified marketing company, we have access to an extraordinary breadth of capability across data, customer experience, production, print, packaging, merchandise, activations, ecommerce and distribution.

Your role…

As a Creative Designer, you will turn strategic thinking and creative concepts into clear, compelling design. Working across brand, campaigns, content and experiences, you’ll help create work that connects with audiences and works across the channels where people see and engage with brands. You’ll collaborate with the wider creative team from early thinking through to final delivery, bringing strong design craft, curiosity and a practical, solution focused approach to every brief.

Job Description

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5+ years’ experience as a Designer, ideally in an agency or fast-paced creative environment.
• A confident communicator who can clearly present ideas and collaborate across teams.
• Organised, self-motivated, and comfortable juggling multiple projects while keeping an eye on the details.
• Skilled across Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat) with a great eye for layout, typography, and storytelling.
• Experience designing for campaigns and creating assets across print, digital, social and presentations.
• Strong sense of design consistency. You understand how to bring clarity and impact to creative ideas.
• Interested in using AI tools to explore ideas, improve workflows and support creative development, with good judgement around quality and originality.
• Confident using Figma as part of your design workflow.
• A problem solver who takes initiative, thinks ahead, and loves finding smart design solutions.
• A team player who enjoys collaborating with strategists, producers, and creatives to bring ideas to life.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate concepts and information into clear, impactful visual storytelling.
• Work closely with senior creatives to develop and deliver engaging design across campaigns, brand, digital, social, print and presentations.
• Collaborate with producers, strategists, and creative teams to develop compelling design solutions that respond to the brief.
• Ensure consistency of branding, messaging, and design elements across all creative materials.
• Adapt and extend creative across multiple formats and channels, from hero key visuals through to full campaign rollouts.
• Prepare accurate, production ready artwork and files for print, digital and social delivery, working to specs and deadlines.
• Contribute ideas in brainstorms and early concept development, helping shape the creative from the start.
• Present design work and rationale clearly to the internal team and, where required, to clients.
• Manage multiple projects at once, prioritising workload and keeping work on brief, on time and to a high standard.
• Respond to feedback constructively and refine work through rounds of amends with care and attention to detail.
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to explore ideas and improve workflows, in line with Elastic’s AI policy.
• Stay across design trends, emerging formats and new tools, bringing fresh thinking to the team.

Why Elastic?

Elastic is a team of curious thinkers, strategic partners and makers who care deeply about the work and enjoy doing it together. We are generous with our thinking, open with our opinions and always looking for the angle others might miss. Everyone is encouraged to contribute, challenge the expected and help make the work stronger. We back good ideas, celebrate the wins and do not take ourselves too seriously along the way.

As part of IVE Group, you will also have access to training and development opportunities, our IVE Care program, which provides a range of wellbeing initiatives and support services. Plus, you will enjoy a variety of staff discounts across retail, entertainment, health and more.

Location: Sydney

Employment type: Full time

Start date: ASAP

Elastic and IVE Group are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, people with disability, and people of all genders, ages, cultures and identities. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

Applicants must have the right to live and work in Australia without restriction.