Company Description

At Digitas, we harness the power of connection to make positive impact everyday. We have a relentless focus on creating connections to help our clients’ businesses grow, connecting diverse people, ideas and expertise in innovative and exciting ways.

We are making positive impact with our amazing clients, through our capabilities in Consulting, Products & Platforms, Customer Engagement and Digital Media. 

Part of Publicis Groupe, and a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies, we’re proud to work with some of the world’s leading brands.

Digitas. Experience the power of connection.

Our Commitment
Digitas is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity.

Job Description

We are looking for an exceptionally talented Social Creative Designer with proven experience in ideating, creating and designing content for social campaigns and experiences to join our team at Digitas! This role sits within a tight-knit and creative team specifically working with one of our most exciting clients. The candidate should be confident in taking existing footage and applying their creative approach to make it relevant to the audience on social platforms.

As a Social Creative designer in Digitas, you’re a tastemaker, you’re always on the pulse of popular culture, you’re the master when it comes to creating engaging video content and narratives, and above all else, you love visual craft.  

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate closely with creative teams and creative/design director to develop impactful ideas for social platforms 
• Translating creative/client briefs into design responses for social platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google, etc.) and other mediums - both net-new and from existing client materials. 
• Gathering relevant references, creating proposals, notional designs and animations to inspire and push boundaries when it comes to answering briefs. 
• Developing and safeguarding client style guides in social platform asset creation. 
• Elevating creative proposals through editing and motion design of existing client creative assets (or stock footage), finding key moments to create best-in-class design assets in channel-specific aspect ratios. 
• Able to elevate and communicate clearly internally and externally the rationale behind your design thinking and approach. 
• Collaborate with PMs to ensure deadlines are met or changes are clearly communicated with team members. 
• Keeping up to date with new developments within the social space to ensure all outputs are valid and optimum for the platforms. 

Qualifications

• 4 to 6+ years of experience working in the creative and design industry with proven experience in designing for social platforms (preferably with agency experience) 
• Motion design and editing experience are needed 
• Able to define, ideate, design, iterate and scale from getting a brief to delivering the final creative output. 
• Portfolio demonstrating effective and beautiful creative visual concepts, art direction and highly crafted execution in both still and motion for social platforms.  
• Good understanding of current culturally relevant social content and ability to apply it to creative proposals 
• Capacity to listen, digest and resolve client feedback with creative solutions and a can-do attitude 
• Ability to prioritise workload and demonstrate excellent time management skills
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (especially AFX), Figma and social platforms   

Additional Information

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with employees being office-based on Mondays and two other days during the working week.

If you have any adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with the recruiter who contacts you.

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