Freelance Graphic Designer with Video Editing

Ardent Communications; Sydney; On-site; AUD 83,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Ardent Communications is seeking a freelance Mid-Weight Digital Designer to join our growing creative team in Sydney. You will own studio workflow, design campaigns across digital platforms, and ensure assets meet brand and audience goals.

A background in advertising and strong skills in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite are highly valued. You’ll collaborate with strategists and media specialists, deliver on time, and help the studio run smoothly from brief to delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in design or creative agency roles, advertising background preferred.
• Proven ability to design across digital campaigns and brand assets.
• Strong collaboration with strategists and media professionals.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualise and design digital campaigns across social, display and video.
• Create assets for multiple channels, adapting visuals per platform.
• Deliver print, outdoor and brand activation creative with high impact.
• Develop and refresh brand identities including logos and typography.
• Oversee studio priorities, workflow and project timelines.
• Edit content in Premiere Pro and collaborate on video assets.

Skills

3+ years design experience

Advertising background

Collaboration

Time management

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Photoshop

Canva

Job description

We’re on the hunt for a talented Freelance Mid-Weight Digital Designer to join our growing creative team. This role is perfect for a designer with an advertising background who thrives on creating compelling campaigns across multiple platforms – and who’s ready to take ownership of studio workflow and priorities.

As a Mid-Weight Digital Designer, you’ll work closely with our Strategists, Communications and Media specialists to design creative campaigns that connect with clients’ audiences and deliver results. Alongside hands-on design work, you’ll also manage the studio – overseeing priorities, balancing workloads, and ensuring projects move smoothly from brief to delivery.

If you’re passionate about design that doesn’t just look good but actually works in the market – and you enjoy keeping a studio running at its best – we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• Conceptualise and design digital campaigns across social media, display, and video.
• Create and roll out assets across platforms, adapting visuals for each channel.
• Deliver high-impact creative for print, outdoor, and brand activations.
• Develop or refresh brand identities, including logos, colour palettes, typography, and usage guidelines
• Collaborate with the creative and media team to ensure design aligns with audience insight and campaign strategy.
• Edit engaging and well-paced content in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Experience editing short-form video and image content for social media platforms
• Experience editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and Canva

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years’ experience in a design or creative agency role (advertising background highly regarded).
• Strong skills in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro).
• Experience in video, animation, and motion graphics.
• Experience and understanding of AI tools in creative production.
• Ability to deliver across digital and traditional formats (social, display, OOH, print, video).
• Strong understanding of clients, audiences, and what makes advertising effective.
• Experience managing studio priorities, workflow, and project timelines.
• Bonus: Hands-on experience in video production and editing.
• A collaborative, proactive attitude and passion for great design that performs.

Interested?

What are you waiting for, we are excited to hear from you!