Responsibilities

• Create social-first visual content across platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, X, and emerging channels, producing assets including social graphics, thumbnails, light motion elements.
• Translate marketing, developer, and product concepts into engaging visual content that supports launches, tech blogs, and ongoing storytelling.
• Partner closely with the social media team, DevRel, marketing partners, and creative teams to develop creative aligned with brand standards.
• Adapt and extend Elastic’s design system for social environments, ensuring content remains visually consistent while optimized for speed, clarity, and platform behavior.
• Produce and iterate quickly on social assets to support real-time content, ongoing campaigns, and timely announcements.
• Monitor social design trends and emerging formats to help evolve Elastic’s visual presence across social platforms.

Requirements

• Experience creating social-first design work in an in-house creative team, marketing organization, or agency environment, with a portfolio demonstrating strong social and digital content.
• A strong portfolio showcasing illustration, campaigns, and digital work that balances creativity with clarity and purpose.
• Strong illustration skills and the ability to translate conceptual ideas into scalable, on-brand visual assets.
• A strong sense of visual storytelling and an understanding of how design performs across different social platforms.
• Experience designing across a variety of formats including static graphics, light motion visuals, thumbnails, and blog images.
• Ability to translate complex technical topics into accessible and visually engaging content that resonates with developer and technical audiences.
• Strong collaboration skills and comfort working closely with social teams, marketers, and content creators in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in modern design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and motion or video tools commonly used for social content.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining quality and brand consistency.

Preferred

• Experience with animation/video production process. Working with writers to develop storyboards.
• After Effects: You enjoy bringing stories to life with animation. Maybe just fun, animated gifs. It’s all good.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave