Digital Design Executive Job

By: Richard Michie

We are looking for a digital native who can really bring client’s briefs to live visually whether that’s a social media campaign, a YouTube video, or a website. You’ll need to be passionate about design for marketing, have a keen eye for detail and a flair for design.

You’ll be working with every department in the agency, Social Media, Ads, SEO, Website design and Digital PR, so you’ll need to be good at prioritising your workload and hitting deadlines.

As we work remotely most of the time you will need to able to stay creative under your own steam and communicate with the wider team and clients clearly.

What we are looking for in a Digital Design Executive

  • Design for social media – Static ads, video ads, Animation for all type of social media
  • Website design for WordPress sites, HTML and coding beneficial
  • Updating WordPress site design, images, updating installs
  • Graphic design skills for print

Tools to use

  • Canva
  • Adobe Suite – Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier Pro, InDesign etc
  • WordPress
  • All Social Media Channels plus HootSuite
  • Google Suite – Docs, Sheets etc
  • Microsoft – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint etc

About The Marketing Optimist

The Marketing Optimist helps businesses who don’t have a marketing department, to have a marketing department. We offer businesses an agile marketing solution which delivers results and business insight based on long-term marketing strategy. You’ll become part of our clients marketing team, being involved from the very beginning and getting to know a client’s business and then coming up with marketing strategies to help them build their business.
Above all else, we are looking for someone with the same ethos as us. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional marketing campaigns, while being very down to earth, collaborative and fun. Our clients are varied and interesting and the projects we help with are fast moving and very involved.

What’s on offer?

  • The chance to further your career with an exciting marketing consultancy
  • Varied fast moving projects
  • 21 days starting holiday plus your birthday off
  • One duvet day per year
  • Pension contributions
  • Additional training to continue further development
  • Encouragement to progress within the business
  • Remote flexible working
  • Office space in central Leeds when required

Get in touch today

If you’re right for this role email your CV along with examples of your portfolio of work to optimist@marketingoptimist.co.uk we can’t wait to see your work.

Sorry no recruitment agencies please.

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