Designer, Advertising

DESIGNER, ADVERTISING – Sydney

The Affinity Partnership Pty Ltd

$85k plus superannuation

We're an advertising agency looking for a full-time Designer with an eye for visual communications and a flair for creativity across all channels including print, outdoor, digital, social, and video.

In this role, you will develop innovative, impactful, omni-channel design solutions and help drive growth for some of the agency's most ambitious clients/brands. You are curious and immersed in culture and love to use your creative powers to solve problems.

You will support, nurture and help drive innovative and world class marketing solutions with visual designs that are effective, impactful and original. You will be given opportunities to work on big brands in Australia and make some of the best work of your career.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design for a wide range of brands across a variety of communications and advertising media including digital (eDM, website, social), print, OOH/DOOH, collateral, social platforms, and video (motion graphics, editing, effects) and more.

• Interpret projects briefs and develop visual solutions and creative ideas that help solve the brief or project objectives.

• Work with a passionate, dedicated, and highly-awarded team of colleagues including art directors, copywriters, project managers, strategic advisors, media gurus, and leaders of creativity and business.

• Ensure quality of design output, efficient workflow, and impeccable file management, using Figma, Miro, Teams, and Sharepoint-based server.

• Design presentations (Powerpoint) for internal and external purposes.

SKILLS OR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• A relevant degree AND at least 5 years' experience as a designer in a known advertising agency – if we haven't heard of it, it doesn't count – as proof of industry and process knowledge and expertise.

• Visual Arts or Design degree required for this position.

• Excellent communication in English, both written and verbal.

• Excellent skills in Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, AfterEffects, Premiere Pro, Media Encoder), Figma, Miro, and industry-standard selection of which tool for appropriate application.

• A portfolio of design samples from projects or campaigns that went live, across multiple media, formats, and brands (big and small).

• Hands-on experience in visual design for print/press, OOH/DOOH, eDM, website, app, social media, collateral, and other visual communications, with fluency and knowledge of the requirements and parameters of each such as colour space (CMYK vs RGB vs Hex vs PMS), print-ready media specs (margin, trim, bleed, dpi, print weight, etc), digital media specs (pixels, colour space, file size, file type, W3C, etc), font management, image manipulation, typography, file packaging, etc.

• Experience in video and motion design including motion graphics, video editing, kinetic typography, visual overlays, visual effects, video specs for multiple formats (native social, digital, screen, etc).

• Strong understanding of marketing and advertising media.

• A collaborative attitude to amends and input from others, while providing your own expert advice to ensure quality across all projects.

• A natural problem-solving disposition that remains calm under pressure and resolves issues before they escalate.

• Creative thinking and visual ideation.

• Clear, confident communication skills and excellent workflow/process skills.

The position is a full-time on-site role located in Sydney.

ABOUT AFFINITY

We're an eclectic blend of some of the industry's most talented thinkers who work hard to deliver business-changing outcomes. Creating an environment that produces world-class thinking is our first priority. Recent winner of AFR Boss Best Places to Work 2022 in Media & Marketing as well as AFR Boss Most Outstanding Practice – Employee Wellbeing, we are a growing agency with a solid new business Hit List.

Job Type and Category

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $80,357.14 per annum plus superannuation

No telephone enquiries at this stage. Only successful applicants will be contacted. No recruitment agencies. No international applicants.

Must have current Australian work rights to be eligible for this position.