Social Content Designer — Remote, Flexible Hours, PTO

The-Shipyard; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open PTO

Flexible work hours and remote work

Paid holidays + holiday closure

Company-paid medical, dental, and vis

Life insurance and disability benefits

401k with employer matching

6 weeks paid parental leave

Employee bonus referrals

Snacks and beverages

Job summary

The Shipyard is a hybrid, social-first creative agency seeking a Social Media Designer to craft engaging content across platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. You’ll blend graphic design with storytelling, short-form video, and photography to bring brands to life for diverse clients.

In-office Tuesdays and Thursdays are required, with remote work otherwise. Build campaigns with teams across creative, social, PR and accounts, stay on top of trends, and push brand

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of experience in graphic design, social media, marketing, content creation or a related field.
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong visual storytelling and social-first creative.
• A strong visual eye and attention to detail, with an understanding of how creative needs to flex across social platforms.
• Experience creating content for platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
• Familiarity with tools such as Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, CapCut and Figma.
• A solid understanding of current social media trends, formats, sounds and audience behaviors.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to take direction, incorporate feedback and continuously improve the work.
• Curiosity and a desire to learn, experiment and stay ahead of how social and digital content is evolving.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute social-first creative across multiple clients, including graphics, posts, stories, reels and other digital content.
• Ideate, concept and execute social media calendars that bring brand strategies and narratives to life.
• Create and edit short-form video for platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
• Capture and edit photography and video content as needed for social channels and campaigns.
• Brainstorm creative ideas, social concepts and campaign opportunities that connect brands with their audiences.
• Stay plugged into social trends, emerging formats, sounds, conversations and cultural moments—and identify ways for clients to participate authentically.
• Write and/or support captions, headlines and social copy while helping maintain each brand’s voice and visual guidelines.
• Help develop and evolve brand guidelines and social creative best practices.
• Support community management by monitoring brand channels and engaging with audiences in a timely, thoughtful way.
• Collaborate with social, PR, creative, account and other agency disciplines to bring integrated campaigns and promotions to life.
• Make thoughtful creative revisions based on feedback from managers, teammates and clients.
• Monitor basic engagement and performance metrics and help identify what content is resonating with audiences.
• Support reporting by helping connect creative performance to broader social and client goals.
• Manage multiple projects and clients while keeping work organized, on brief and on deadline.
• Bring new tools, technologies and creative approaches to the team as the social landscape continues to evolve.

Skills

Graphic design

Social media

Content creation

Brand storytelling

Adobe CC

CapCut

Figma

Photography

Videography

Short-form video

Copywriting

Branding

Analytics

Organization

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

Canva

Adobe Creative Suite

CapCut

Figma

Job description

The Shipyard is a hybrid, social-first creative agency seeking a Social Media Designer to craft engaging content across platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. You’ll blend graphic design with storytelling, short-form video, and photography to bring brands to life for diverse clients.

In-office Tuesdays and Thursdays are required, with remote work otherwise. Build campaigns with teams across creative, social, PR and accounts, stay on top of trends, and push brand