Senior Designer

Hashtag Interactive; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hashtag Interactive is seeking a Senior Designer with strong visual instincts and conceptual thinking to lead campaigns across social and digital channels. You’ll craft visual directions, develop coherent systems, and work with multidisciplinary teams on projects spanning government, education, healthcare and consumer brands.

You will translate briefs into flexible visual systems, ensuring consistency and craft from concept to final output, while mentoring junior creatives and staying ahead of

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a creative agency, advertising, branding, digital or social media environment.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, typography, composition and visual craft.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• Strong understanding of designing for social and digital platforms.
• Ability to develop visual systems across brands and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop visual concepts and creative directions for campaigns, social media and digital communications.
• Design across social content, key visuals, digital campaigns, presentations and event collateral.
• Collaborate with copywriters, art directors, strategists, account teams, illustrators and animators.
• Translate creative ideas into flexible visual systems for multiple platforms and formats.
• Contribute ideas during brainstorms, pitches and campaign development.
• Maintain high visual consistency and craft across projects.
• Guide and provide constructive feedback to junior creatives.
• Work with motion designers and video teams to translate ideas into animation and video.
• Stay current with design trends, culture and emerging visual formats.

Skills

Visual concept development

Branding & campaigns

Cross-brand collaboration

Attention to detail

Presentation & storytelling

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Designer with strong visual instincts, conceptual thinking and a good understanding of how brands live across social and digital platforms.

You’ll work across integrated campaigns, social content, branding, digital communications, video and motion-led work for clients spanning government and public sector organisations, education, healthcare, retail, lifestyle and consumer brands.

We’re looking for someone who can go beyond executing layouts. You should be able to take a brief, find the visual idea within it and develop a creative direction that can grow into a coherent campaign or content system.

What you’ll do

• Develop visual concepts and creative directions for campaigns, social media and digital communications.


• Design across social content, key visuals, digital campaigns, presentations, publications, event collateral and other online and offline touchpoints.


• Work closely with copywriters, art directors, strategists, account teams, illustrators, animators and content producers.


• Translate creative ideas into flexible visual systems that work across multiple platforms and formats.


• Contribute ideas during brainstorms, pitches and campaign development.


• Maintain a high standard of visual consistency and craft across projects.


• Guide and provide constructive feedback to junior creatives where required.


• Work with motion designers and video teams to translate static ideas into animation, video and short-form content.


• Stay current with design, culture, social content and emerging visual formats and tools.

What we’re looking for

• Around 5+ years of relevant experience in a creative agency, advertising, branding, digital or social media environment


• A strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, typography, composition and visual craft.


• Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.


• Strong understanding of designing for social and digital platforms.


• Ability to develop visual systems rather than individual pieces of artwork.


• Comfortable working across different brands, visual identities and creative styles.


• Strong attention to detail and the ability to take work from initial concept through to final execution.


• Collaborative, open to feedback and confident explaining the thinking behind your work.

You can apply directly through this listing or submit your CV and portfolio via our Careers page: https://www.hashtag-interactive.com/careers