Creative Designer - 9 Month Maternity Cover

Much Better Adventures; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £30,000 - £40,000 pro-rata

Remote UK resident

38 days holiday pro-rata

Annual performance bonus

Private Health with AXA

Pension scheme

Employee discount

Remote setup budget

Job summary

Much Better Adventures is seeking an experienced designer to support our marketing team. You will create on-brand designs for paid ads, organic social, and email, while aligning with our existing look and feel. The role can be part-time or freelance and is remote for UK-based applicants.

You’ll collaborate with the Head of Content and other marketing teammates to develop cohesive campaign visuals, iterate on creative tests, and maintain high-quality design across channels.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years experience in brand marketing or creative agency.
• Proven digital design for paid ads, social and email.
• Ability to produce cohesive assets across multiple channels.

Responsibilities

• Develop concepts that fit campaign objectives within established look & feel.
• Create cohesive asset sets for paid, organic, and email campaigns.
• Design responsive assets for web and mobile across formats.
• Produce templates and bespoke assets for organic content.
• Design email elements for newsletters and campaigns.
• Create illustration-based visuals and diagrams in line with style.

Skills

Digital design

Paid ads design

Social media design

Email design

Copywriting

Brand consistency

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Figma

Canva

HTML5

Job description

The Role

This is a key role to support our marketing team by creating eye-catching, on-brand designs that resonate with our audience and bring our adventures, community and stories to life.

This isn't a role to define our visual identity from scratch - that groundwork is already done. It's a role to execute brilliantly within it: producing on-brand, high-quality design across paid ad creatives, organic social, email, and stepping in on new campaign identities when they're needed, always within our existing look and feel.

You'll report to the Head of Content, work remotely (UK-based), and collaborate closely with the paid and organic marketing teams and our in-house product designer.

We're open to this being either a part-time hire or a freelance arrangement.

Why you'll love it here

We're driven by a shared passion for unleashing the transformative power of adventure. We embrace a culture of learning and improvement, constantly evolving how we work to suit the challenges we face. You'll find a supportive, collaborative environment where ideas are valued, feedback is encouraged, and experimentation is part of our DNA.

Key responsibilities

Creative Concept Ideation & Development

• Work with the marketing team to develop creative concepts and ideas that support campaign objectives, including new campaign identities where needed - always within our established look and feel.
• For launches and campaigns, create a cohesive set of design assets that flex across paid ads, organic social, and email - maintaining one consistent look and identity throughout.

Paid Ad Creatives

• Design scroll-stopping, on-brand paid ad creatives for Meta, Google, programmatic channels, and other paid platforms.
• Experiment with different formats at scale - statics, carousels, GIFs - while maintaining a consistent visual identity.
• Act on creative performance data - comfortable working to improve metrics like CTR and conversion rate, with bonus points for experience running creative tests at volume (e.g. creative variant testing, systematic A/B testing).
• Basic dashboard literacy - able to read performance data at a working level, as part of feedback loops with the paid and CRO teams.
• Comfortable working to a creative brief, as well as supporting the briefing and feedback process when working with external agencies.

Responsive Design

• Create visually compelling designs that work seamlessly across various screen sizes and devices, ensuring an optimal user experience.

Social Media & Organic Content

• Create templates and bespoke assets for organic social campaigns.
• Stay aware of platform-specific safe zones when designing social creative.

Email & Newsletter Design

• Design reusable and flexible email elements for newsletters and campaigns

Illustration & Diagrammatic Content

• Work within our established illustration style to create new, reusable visuals wherever they're needed.
• Create fun infographic-style and hand-drawn illustrative content - flow charts, infographics, and similar diagrammatic work.

Video Support

• Support the video team, ensuring brand guideline adherence and elevating the look of graphics within video content.

Copywriting

• Write short-form copy for both paid and organic creative - not just the design, but the words within it (e.g. writing the copy for a paid carousel).
• Get into the mindset of a persona or customer desire, producing varied wording that engages and drives clicks.
• Enjoy wordplay and have fun with language, while following MBA's tone of voice.

Ad Hoc Design Support

• Review and provide feedback on visual product design work (app/web UI) and video creative to help maintain brand consistency across product surfaces.
• Support creative needs for new trip launches, campaigns, or one-off projects, as well as ad hoc support and requests from the wider team.

Creative

• 3-5 years experience working within a brand marketing team or creative agency.
• Proven experience designing for digital platforms, particularly paid ads, social channels, and email.
• Comfortable producing a consistent set of assets across multiple channels (paid, organic, email) for a single campaign or launch, adapting format without losing cohesion.
• A strong eye for hand-drawn or digital illustration, with the ability to follow an established style and create fun infographic-style, diagrammatic content (flow charts, infographics, etc.).
• Ability to write short-form copy for ads and organic content, tailored to a persona or customer desire, that engages and drives clicks - and enjoys the wordplay along the way.
• Meticulous about typography and typesetting, keeping visual consistency and polish across all creative output.
• Experience designing for print (e.g. magazine ads, print-ready artwork) and physical products (e.g. merchandise) is a plus.

Technical

• Advanced skills in design tools like Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Figma. Canva (or similar) familiarity is a bonus. Bonus points for HTML5 experience.
• Experience designing responsive assets for the web, ensuring optimal usability and aesthetics across devices.
• Confident working with assets across multiple aspect ratios and platform specs without it slowing you down.
• Basic understanding of video production, or ability to work effectively with a video editor.

Mindset and approach

• Highly organised and prolific - able to manage a high volume of output with strong self-organisation and work autonomously.
• Comfortable managing a part-time, remote role and prioritising tasks effectively.
• Resourceful when things are unclear or stuck - finds a way past apparent blockers, while still staying aligned.
• Meticulous about design consistency and accuracy across all formats.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with the marketing and creative teams.
• Passionate about adventure travel and the outdoors, and able to bring that excitement to your designs.

Need to Know

The application deadline for this role is the 28th September, unless we receive a high volume of applications, in which case we reserve the right to close the vacancy early.

• Preferred Start Date: Mid October 2026
• Salary Range: £30,000 - £40,000 pro-rata based on a part-time (20–25 hours per week) commitment. Compensation will depend on experience and skill level.
• Working Hours: A part-time role at 20–25 hours per week. Our preference is for 3 fixed days per week, so we can rely on knowing when you're working - with some flexibility on which days and hours, to be agreed.
• Location: This is a fully remote position, but you must be resident in the UK.

We are an equal opportunities employer and strongly encourage applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and industries. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to support everyone in the team to achieve that important work/life balance in a way that works for their particular circumstances.

• An entrepreneurial and creative environment where great ideas are actively encouraged, and taking responsibility for them is expected.
• The warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing you are making a huge difference to small independent businesses, local economies and communities.
• 38 days holiday per year pro-rata (inclusive of public holidays).
• Annual company performance-based bonus.
• Flexible hours set up and a fully remote company.
• Company-wide, adventurous meet- ups.
• 30% Employee discount, plus 15% friends and family discount for MBA trips.
• Generous Pension scheme (UK employees only).
• Private Health with Axa
• Budget to set up a remote working space and access to co-working spaces.

If this role is offered on a freelance/contract basis, statutory and company benefits (e.g. pension, holiday pay, sick pay) do not apply, in line with your engagement terms.

What does the typical interview process look like?

Our hiring process is fully remote, all interviews are done online, and we'll ask for a portfolio as part of your application. Every application that makes it through is carefully read by a real member of the team.

• Stage 1: Initial application and screening Q&A
• Stage 2: A "get to know each other" interview, to find out more about your experience and see if we're a good fit (approx 30-45 mins)
• Stage 3: You'll be sent a task and asked to prepare a short presentation for stage 4
• Stage 4: In-depth interview where we review your task and presentation, followed by an informal Q&A with members of the team you'll be working closely with (approx 60-90 mins)