Mid-Weight Designer (Freelance)

Engagement: Freelance / self-employed contractor (rolling project briefs)

Location: London (remote-first, with potential for ad-hoc days in London)

Day rate: £220 to £260 per day, dependent on experience (outside IR35)

Start: ASAP

About Social Chameleon

Social Chameleon is an independent, social-first agency built for brands that refuse to stand still. Five disciplines under one roof, social, paid, influencer, creative and search, woven together so every brief moves faster and lands sharper.

We don't chase algorithms. We read culture at the source and move before the market is ready. It's how we've become Social Media Agency of the Year (twice), Digital Agency of the Year and a Forbes 30 Under 30 team, with seventy-plus awards and counting. We work with international brands across consumer tech, automotive, tools and hardware, travel and hospitality and agriculture, from offices in London and Sydney.

We're building a bench of trusted freelancers to support a growing slate of project work. This is one of several briefs we're hiring for over the coming weeks. Urgent availability is essential.

The brief

We need a mid-weight designer with strong social-first foundations who can also design across OOH and other formats. You'll take concepts from brief to polished artwork, working alongside our Creative team and close to social, strategy and account, keeping every asset on brand and built to perform, whether it lives on a feed, a billboard or a banner.

This suits a designer with three to five years behind them, someone who can take a concept and run with it across channels, contribute ideas rather than only execute, and deliver to a high finish with minimal hand-holding.

What you'll do

Design delivery

• Design across social, OOH, digital display and print, from social-first statics to large-format and out-of-home
• Produce campaign and always-on assets: social statics, carousels and stories, plus OOH, DOOH, digital banners and print collateral
• Take master creative concepts and scale them cleanly across every format and channel, from a six-sheet to a story frame
• Own layout, typography and composition to a high standard of finish across formats
• Set artwork up correctly for output, including print-ready and large-format specs
• Keep every asset on brand and aligned to the strategy, applying brand guidelines consistently across accounts

Collaboration

• Work with Creative, Social and Account teams on campaign and always-on content
• Contribute to creative ideation and help develop concepts, not just execute them
• Respond to feedback efficiently and manage revisions within tight timelines

Ways of working

• Prepare clean, production-ready files to spec for each channel, with clear version control
• Support wider creative projects across client accounts as needed

About you

• 3 to 5 years in graphic or creative design (agency experience preferred)
• Strong social-first design experience, plus a track record across OOH and other formats such as print, digital display and large-format
• Strong across Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Figma
• Confident scaling a single concept across social, OOH and print without losing craft
• Comfortable with production and artwork setup, including print-ready and large-format specs
• A sharp eye for layout, typography, composition and detail
• Able to manage multiple briefs and deadlines, and take creative feedback well
• Your own equipment and software licences
• A plus: comfortable prepping and handing off assets to our motion team

Prioritised experience: we're giving preference to designers with relevant experience in consumer tech, automotive and/or property.

Engagement details

• Type: Freelance / self-employed (rolling project briefs, reviewed regularly)
• Location: London, remote-first with ad-hoc studio days
• Day rate: £220 to £260 per day, dependent on experience (outside IR35)
• Start: ASAP
• You'll invoice for days worked and use your own kit and software.

Working with us

We welcome freelancers from every background. If you meet the essentials and bring the craft, we'd like to hear from you, regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.