Senior Social Designer - 12 month FTC

London, UK (Hybrid)

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Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own social-first design across fast-moving, multi-market content by building scalable templates, ensuring platform-optimized visuals, and iterating quickly on data-driven insights.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Create and maintain modular templates and layout systems for fast, localised content across platforms.
  • Content Engine: Collaborate with creators to visualise concepts and scale assets for always-on and campaign activations.
  • Performance Analytics: Use engagement data to refine visuals and formats, sharing insights with the team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Social-First Design Execution: Create high-quality visual content across static assets, motion graphics, and short-form video design support — including titles, overlays, and transitions.
  • Platform optimization: Ensure all design work is platform-optimised for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and other relevant channels — on-brand, consistent, and ready to publish.
  • Visual craft standards: Maintain strong visual craft standards across every output, regardless of volume or turnaround time.
  • Content Creation Support at Scale: Work closely with Content Creators to bring concepts to life visually and enhance content through considered design.
  • Produce assets at pace: across always-on content, campaign activations, and reactive or trending content opportunities.
  • Scalable Design Systems: Create and maintain templates, layout systems, and modular design assets that enable content to be adapted quickly, localised across markets, and repurposed across formats.
  • Document design systems clearly: so they can be used consistently across the team.
  • Multi-Market Adaptation: Adapt visual content for different markets, ensuring visual consistency, cultural relevance, and formatting and language accuracy.
  • Support efficient versioning: of assets across markets and platforms, setting clear standards for how adaptation is approached.
  • Performance-Driven Design: Work with Data and Social teams to understand which visual approaches perform best, and use engagement signals to inform layout, format, and creative decisions.

Requirements

  • Strong design capability across static and motion formats, with a portfolio demonstrating high-quality social-first work
  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro), CapCut, Canva, Figma, or equivalent tools
  • Deep understanding of platform design best practices and what drives visual engagement across key social channels
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple design projects simultaneously, delivering consistently strong work at pace and under time pressure
  • Experience building and maintaining design systems, templates, and modular asset libraries that enable efficient, high-volume production
  • Background in high-volume, always-on content environments — agency, in-house, or embedded studio
  • Experience delivering social design for consumer brands, with FMCG background an advantage
  • Familiarity with multi-stakeholder environments involving strategy, social, data, and client teams
  • Experience managing project-level production budgets, including cost estimation, supplier negotiation, purchase orders, and reconciliation
  • Advanced use of Gen AI tools relevant to social design — including tools that support ideation, asset generation, content variation, and production workflow optimisation
  • Experience designing AI-assisted workflows for personal use and sharing effective approaches with the wider team
  • Ability to train others on responsible and effective use of AI tools within a design context
  • Agentic thinking for complex, multi-step design and production challenges — breaking problems down systematically and driving efficient execution
  • Strong understanding of AI capabilities and limitations, with rigorous human oversight applied to all AI-assisted outputs
  • Experience working across multiple markets or languages, or in embedded in-house or studio environments
  • Familiarity with paid social design requirements — safe zones, format variants, and performance testing
  • Experience designing for creator or influencer-led content
  • Experience building design systems or localisation frameworks at studio level
  • Formal qualifications are welcome but not required. Equivalent experience counts, whether gained through work, study, volunteering, or self-directed learning

Preferred

  • Formal qualifications are welcome but not required. Equivalent experience counts, whether gained through work, study, volunteering, or self-directed learning
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INSIDE IDEAS GROUP LTD

The Inside Ideas Group (IIG) – which includes leading in-housing company OLIVER, global content agency Adjust Your Set, experience and engineering company Dare and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming – exists to transform brands’ business performance through the use of smarter solutions, delivered from the inside. IIG joined the world’s first brandtechTM group You & Mr Jones in 2019. You & Mr Jones holds majority stakes in five segments of the technology marketing sector: in-housing (OLIVER), data (55), consultancy (Blood/55), content creation and distribution (Mofilm, theAmplify, Gravity Road, Mobkoi) and has strategic investments in several leading technology businesses including Pinterest, Niantic, AI Foundation, VidMob, Jivox, Zappar, EVRYTHNG, Automat, Beeswax, and Gfycat.

Founded in 2004
London, England, GBR
339 employees (138 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44%
Direct
44.1%
Referral
7.5%
Social
3.3%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~339

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
36 (11% of company)