Freelance Senior Designer at We Are Social | Los Angeles, CA

We Are Social

Freelance Senior Designer

Los Angeles, CA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expContract

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive high-impact social design work across campaigns, leading creative execution from concept to delivery.

Must-have: 5+ years of experience in design, motion, or editing with a portfolio showing short-form content expertise
Standout: Expert-level mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite and motion/video workflows
Standout: Comfortable collaborating across departments and navigating team dynamics

Job Description

Responsibilities

Contribute strategically to large-scale campaigns, ensuring that every design choice is nuanced, sophisticated, and aligned with long-term brand goals
Present creative ideas directly to clients with confidence; decode ambiguous client feedback into actionable, high-priority tasks for the broader creative team
Manage multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining extreme focus and quality under the pressure of shifting requirements
Defend sophisticated design choices to senior leadership while navigating constraints like budget, evolving scopes, and brand integrity
Identify trends and opportunities as they emerge in social that stay true to our brands
Create a wide range of content, from photography to videography, design, and platform tools that always suits the client, moment and idea
Ability to switch between styles while still experimenting and looking for unique opportunities to make work ownable and talked about
Ideate, build, shoot, and edit effective stories that match the quality of each social platform
Design visually engaging presentations, create mockups & light retouching as needed that help sell creative ideas to top clients in the industry
Work collaboratively with a large team of creatives from ideation to execution, helping to ensure ideas are created and brought to life

Requirements

5+ years of experience in a design, motion, or editing role, with a portfolio showcasing an understanding of short-form content best practices and channels
Experience working in a fast paced environment, and managing multiple projects at a time
Expert-level mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite and advanced knowledge of motion/video workflows
Comfortable collaborating across departments, build relationships and navigate team dynamics

Benefits

passport program lets you explore and work from one of our 18 other offices worldwide, including Paris, Singapore, Madrid, Dubai, London and more
We know how to celebrate our wins. And our losses (it’s how we learn)
From carbon offsets to community kitchens, we’re passionate about making a difference
Did we say snacks? Because we have great snacks

We Are Social

3.3 Glassdoor

We are a global socially-led creative agency, with unrivaled social media expertise.With over 1,300 people in 19 offices around the world, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.We make ideas worth talking about. We understand social behaviours within online communities, cultures and subcultures, spanning the social and gaming landscape.We work with the world’s biggest brands, including adidas, Samsung, Netflix and Google, to reach the right people in a strategic, relevant and effective way.We Are Social is part of Plus Company.

Founded in 2008

London, England, GBR

1.8K employees (658 in marketing)

wearesocial.com

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