Communications Designer (Campaigns)

City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (Hybrid)

£33K/yr – £45K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end creative engine for multi-channel campaigns, focusing on hooks and narratives that arrest attention, while ensuring the concept works across paid social, print, events, and direct mail, and safeguarding the brand.

  • Creative Concepting: Shape hooks, angles, and stories that stop scrolling across multiple channels.
  • Channel Execution: Translate ideas into paid social, print, events, and digital content with an ad-first mindset.
  • Brand Stewardship: Collaborate to protect and evolve brand identity across all touchpoints.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Coming up with the big idea: Developing multi-channel marketing campaigns from a blank page to final delivery.
  • Thinking ad-first: Obsessing over what makes a piece of communication work - focusing on the hook, the visual joke, the headline, and how it fits the platform.
  • Shaping the narrative: Partnering with copywriters to make sure the visual concept and the words marry together perfectly.
  • Making stuff: Bringing your ideas to life across paid social, eye-catching print, event branding, and digital content.
  • Championing the brand: Collaborating with the wider team to champion, protect, and evolve our brand identity.
  • In this role, you won’t just be formatting templates or pushing pixels - you’ll be a conceptual engine. You’ll spend your time thinking about hooks, angles, and stories that stop people from scrolling, whether that’s on paid social, digital platforms, or a direct mail piece arriving on a doorstep.

Requirements

  • You might be a junior designer ready for a bigger stage.
  • You might be an agency creative looking for something different.
  • You might not even call yourself an Art Director yet.
  • You don't need twenty years' experience, but you do need curiosity, taste, and the confidence to put your ideas into the room.
  • Your portfolio should make us think, "I wish we'd made that." Show us your brain at work - even if it's fake ads or personal passion projects you made just for fun.

Preferred

  • massive folder of screenshots of ads you've saved because they're brilliant

Benefits

  • 33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you're with us)
  • Flexible/hybrid working
  • Private health care
  • Life assurance
  • 5% matched pension contributions
  • Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off!)
  • Buy-as-you-earn share schemes
  • Sabbatical leave (unpaid)
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Wellness webinars
  • Focused learning time and learning budgets
  • Volunteering day
  • Find out more about our benefits package here!
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One product.🤳 17 years. 📆 250+ employees. 🧑💻Over 200,000 users. 💥There’s so much to say about it all. But here’s the version that fits the character limit. We’re FreeAgent. 👋 We make award-winning accounting software and provide superstar support for small businesses and their accountants and bookkeepers. We’re a friendly bunch with a single goal bringing us all together: making users happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances. But how did we get here? 🤔 You might remember 2007 as the year the first iPhone, Kindle and Fitbit debuted. It was also the year FreeAgent was launched.💡 Founders Ed, Olly and Roan had all been working as freelance designers or developers for a while. They created FreeAgent out of the frustration that doing the books was just too damn difficult for most of us. So they put their heads together and decided that there must be a better way to deal with their mounting piles of invoices, spreadsheets and receipts. Since our first hire back in 2008, we’ve also worked hard to make FreeAgent a ✨great✨ place to work. We’ve grown to over 250 employees and we continue to build a diverse, high-performing, happy and collaborative team. In early 2018, the company was acquired by the NatWest Group. Our growth has been given a turbo boost, yet we remain operationally independent of the group. 🚀Today, FreeAgent helps over 200,000 users take care of their finances - from the daily admin to big-picture planning - and do it all happily and successfully. Just like Ed, Olly and Roan set out to do all those years ago. 💙

Founded in 2007
Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
393 employees (95 in marketing)
99% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
19%
Direct
76.4%
Referral
3.5%
Social
0.2%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~394

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
68 (17% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$11.1M
Last Raise
$1.9M
Equity Crowdfunding, 11 years ago

Funding History

  • May 2015
    Equity Crowdfunding • $1.9M
  • Apr 2015
    Debt Financing • $5M
  • May 2012
    Series B • $1M

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