Ellipsis®: Remote Graphic Designer, EU Hours, £36k-40k, USA

Ellipsis® is seeking a talented graphic designer to join our remote team. This role is fully remote, requiring overlap with European (EU) working hours. As a key part of our creative team, you’ll craft visually compelling designs that enhance our brand identity, marketing efforts, and client projects.

Graphic designer currently use an “unlimited design” service and produce graphics that look the same as everyone else’s graphics made by their unlimited design service. Graphic designer need you to elevate the quality.
It’ll be your job to understand the look and feel of each of our client’s branding, produce graphic designer assets that fit with their style, and help level up the quality of the content that we make for them through engaging, interesting, and original visuals that enhance the written content that we produce.

Concretely, this means developing an asset bank for each client, creating beautiful on-brand featured images for each post, editing and/or optimizing images (such as charts or screenshots) in the content from our writers, and creating any other graphics for the posts such as versions for social media. You’ll need to identify opportunities to enhance the content with graphics, and then make those happen.
Our clients are technology businesses.

Some of them have existing brand guides and are more serious/corporate, whilst others are looking for us to show them what awesome design looks like.
Graphic designer produce content at scale – 80 posts a month – so this is a role that requires design and brand leadership to understand and go beyond the client’s current requirements, but also productivity to develop processes, asset banks, and produce graphics at scale.

Qualifications of graphic designer

• 2-4+ years graphic design experience, either on a team or freelance
• Ideally, previous experience in designing for SEO, or experience working with a copy team on in-article graphics
• Ability to take a brief and turn it into a compelling, easy-to-understand visual
• Experience developing brand guidelines and assets
• Experience with simple animation/motion graphics
• Proven organisational skills: You must be obsessive with deadlines, managing and updating tasks, and totally reliable
• Fantastic communication skills: Remote work relies on mutual trust, so frequent and clear written communication is essential
• Receptive to feedback and solutions-oriented: We share and learn from each other honestly, openly, and easily
• High level of self-awareness, a “people person”: You’ll be dealing with members of the team on a daily basis, so this is an integral part of the role
• Self-driven work ethic: You need to be self-motivated, comfortable taking the initiative, and see projects through to completion

Responsibilities of graphic designer

• Develop engaging graphic designs for web, social media, marketing, and branding materials.
• Collaborate with content, marketing, and product teams to ensure cohesive visual storytelling.
• Create and refine design concepts, illustrations, and layouts for various digital and print media.
• Ensure all designs align with brand guidelines and client expectations.
• Work closely with developers to optimize graphics for digital platforms.
• Stay up-to-date with design trends and industry best practices.
• You’ll create world-class visuals to accompany our world-class content
• You’ll build out internal process around design, asset banks, and create stills with the occasional animation
• You’ll work across a range of clients, products, and industries to produce graphics that are better and more on-brand for them, than they do themselves
• You’ll work with our Content team to create visuals that support our clients’ needs
• It’ll be your job to understand the look and feel of each of our client’s branding, produce graphic assets that fit with their style, and help level up the quality of the content that we make for them through engaging, interesting, and original visuals that enhance the written content that we produce
• Concretely, this means developing an asset bank for each client, creating beautiful on-brand featured images for each post, editing and/or optimizing images (such as charts or screenshots) in the content from our writers, and creating any other graphics for the posts such as versions for social media
• You’ll need to identify opportunities to enhance the content with graphics, and then make those happen
• We produce content at scale – 80 posts a month – so this is a role that requires design and brand leadership to understand and go beyond the client’s current requirements, but also productivity to develop processes, asset banks, and produce graphics at scale
• Additionally, you’ll work on internal projects
• 20% developing brand assets for clients
• 60% creating graphics for each of our posts (mostly still but some animation)
• Featured images to accompany each of our client’s articles
• Simple animations and gifs to illustrate concepts within articles
• Optimisation of screenshots to maintain consistency and reader understanding (with the use of arrows and markup where necessary)
• Data visualisation assets (charts, graphs, and infographics in the client’s style)
• You’ll communicate with the team through Basecamp, our project management software, and Google Meet
• We’re located in Europe and require 2 hours of overlap with GMT/BST each day
• You’ll be a part of our Content team, who will provide you with copy support and detailed briefs where required
• You’ll then have “deep work” time to create graphic assets on a high-volume basis

Benefits of graphic designer

• This is a full-time, 100% remote role
• Competitive salary with pension benchmarked to UK rates and based on experience
• £36-40k/year salary, depending on experience
• 28 days of paid holiday
• Regular team retreats (to fun places!
• ~2 per year)
• Support for personal development
• We have a transparent and open culture
• Maternity/paternity leave, and sick pay

Requirements of graphic designer

• Proven experience as a Graphic Designer with a strong portfolio showcasing digital and print design.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and other design tools.
• Strong understanding of typography, color theory, and layout principles.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail and deadlines.
• Experience in UI/UX design is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work remotely.
• Availability to work EU hours while based in the USA.

What We Offer in graphic designer

• Competitive salary (£36k-40k) based on experience.
• Fully remote role with flexible working hours.
• Opportunity to work with a dynamic and creative global team.
• Career growth opportunities in a fast-paced digital agency.
• Access to the latest design tools and training resources.

Why Join Ellipsis®?

At Ellipsis®, we believe in creativity, innovation, and collaboration. Our fully remote environment fosters a culture of flexibility and professional growth. Join us to make an impact through design while enjoying the freedom of remote work with a team that values your talent.

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