Digital Designer

McCarthy & Stone Ltd; Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Professional subscriptions paid for

24 days annual leave (rising to 28) +

Holiday Purchase Scheme

2 volunteering days per year

Remote GP and EAP services

Discounts and promotions

Job summary

McCarthy & Stone Ltd in Bournemouth is creating a new Digital Designer role to shape how our brand shows up across paid media, social, web and digital channels. You will produce standout content across paid media, social, video and motion, turning ideas into campaigns from concept to finished asset.

You’ll use Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Figma, and you’ll test and learn to improve creative performance.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years agency or in-house experience.
• Portfolio across digital advertising, social, video and motion.
• Proficiency in Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects; experience with Figma or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Create standout content across paid media, social, web, video and motion.
• Turn campaign ideas into creative built for different platforms and audiences.
• Create and edit social-first video and motion content from concept to finished asset.
• Develop and adapt creative across multiple formats, placements and campaigns.
• Use performance insights and testing to experiment, learn and continually improve creative.
• Explore AI and emerging creative technology to make content creation smarter and more effective.
• Collaborate across Marketing to turn ideas into great creative.

Skills

Digital design

Video editing

Creative concepting

Campaign optimization

Tools

Photoshop

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Figma

Job description

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Are you a Digital Designer who knows how to create content that stops the scroll, captures attention and delivers results?

We are growing our Marketing team and creating a brand-new Digital Designer role at McCarthy & Stone. Working from our Bournemouth Head Office for at least three days a week, this is your opportunity to help shape how an established brand shows up across paid media, social, web and digital channels.

Think paid social, motion, video, digital campaigns and content – with plenty of variety and the opportunity to take ideas from initial concept through to finished creative.

You will bring around three to five years' agency or in-house experience and a portfolio that demonstrates what you can do across digital advertising, social, video and motion. You will be highly confident using Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects, with experience of Figma or similar digital design tools.

But we are looking for more than technical capability. You will be curious about what works and why – using campaign performance, testing and insight to develop new ideas, challenge the creative and make the next piece of content even better.

You will also be excited by what is next, exploring AI-assisted creative tools and emerging technology to create smarter, faster and more engaging content.

We will give you:

• Company Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Professional subscriptions paid for
• 24 days annual leave (rising to 28) plus Bank Holidays
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• 2 fully paid volunteering days per year, supported by the McCarthy & Stone Foundation
• Remote GP and 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme services, including counsellors and legal advisors
• Colleague Benefit Booklet with a range of discounts, offers and promotions
• Family Friendly Policies

Your Impact

As our Digital Designer, you will help take our in-house digital creative to the next level.

You will:

• Create standout content across paid media, social, web, video and motion.
• Turn campaign ideas into compelling creative built for different platforms and audiences.
• Create and edit social-first video and motion content from concept to finished asset.
• Develop and adapt creative across multiple formats, placements and campaigns.
• Use performance insights and testing to experiment, learn and continually improve creative.
• Explore AI and emerging creative technology to make content creation smarter and more effective.
• Collaborate across Marketing to turn great ideas into great creative.

What We Are Looking For

You are creative, digitally curious and full of ideas. You understand that great digital design is not just about how something looks – it is about capturing attention and inspiring action.

You will enjoy experimenting, learning from performance and pushing creative thinking, while having the organisation and attention to detail to deliver multiple briefs at pace.

Most importantly, you will want to make an impact. This is a new role in a growing Marketing team, giving you the opportunity to bring fresh thinking and help shape our digital creative capability from the inside.

Ready to Make an Impact?

If digital design, social, video, motion and emerging creative technology are where you do your best work, we want to hear from you.

At McCarthy & Stone, we celebrate diversity and promote equality and inclusion amongst our colleagues. We welcome applications from all, regardless of personal characteristics or background.

All applications will be reviewed as soon as they are received, and we hold the right to appoint before the closing date.