Communications Designer (Campaigns)
Department: Design
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Edinburgh
Reporting To: Charlie Bell
Compensation: £32,500 - £45,000 / year
Description
We’re looking for someone who can’t stop thinking of ideas to join our creative team.
We make advertising that people actually notice. Sometimes that's a social campaign. Sometimes it's a stunt. Sometimes it's a poster. Sometimes it's something nobody has tried before (like sending a tax submission from space).
If you love the thrill of advertising and want to bring fresh, un-boring concepts to life across every media channel imaginable, we would love to chat.
The role
We're hiring for ideas first.
In this role, you won't just be formatting templates or pushing pixels - you’ll be a conceptual engine. You’ll spend your time thinking about hooks, angles, and stories that stop people from scrolling, whether that’s on paid social, digital platforms, or a direct mail piece arriving on a doorstep.
What you'll be doing
- Coming up with the big idea: Developing multi-channel marketing campaigns from a blank page to final delivery.
- Thinking ad-first: Obsessing over what makes a piece of communication work - focusing on the hook, the visual joke, the headline, and how it fits the platform.
- Shaping the narrative: Partnering with copywriters to make sure the visual concept and the words marry together perfectly.
- Making stuff: Bringing your ideas to life across paid social, eye-catching print, event branding, and digital content.
- Championing the brand: Collaborating with the wider team to champion, protect, and evolve our brand identity.
You
We're not looking for a checklist of qualifications. We’re looking for someone with the right set of skills.
You might:
- Have a massive folder of screenshots of ads you've saved because they're brilliant.
- Get genuinely annoyed when brands explain instead of entertain.
- Be the person who sends your mates ‘look at this campaign’ messages at 11pm
You might be a junior designer ready for a bigger stage. You might be an agency creative looking for something different. You might not even call yourself an Art Director yet. You don't need twenty years' experience, but you do need curiosity, taste, and the confidence to put your ideas into the room.
Your portfolio should make us think, "I wish we'd made that." Show us your brain at work - even if it's fake ads or personal passion projects you made just for fun.
Our work life
We believe in a strong work-life balance, we don’t work long hours (35 hour working week), and we have a fabulous Edinburgh HQ expertly designed for collaboration including high-quality A/V equipment to provide a great experience for distributed teams.
At FreeAgent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out!
Work pattern for this role
This is a permanent, full-time role (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm), based in our Edinburgh office.
We operate on a hybrid model: we gather at our Edinburgh HQ two days per week (Tuesday and Thursday) to collaborate and catch up, with the flexibility to work from home on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
One last thing, FreeAgent is moving house! Next year we’ll be moving to our swanky new pad to the west of Edinburgh, with superb employee facilities and close to multiple transport links. We’ll share more details with you as you go through the hiring process.
Perks
Annual starting salary of £32,500 - £45,000 per annum depending on experience, with room to progress within our salary band structure while you're here.
Our starting salaries typically leave some opportunity for growth within the band as salaries are linked to performance expectations to nurture our culture of fairness, learning and development.
We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, with benefits and perks including (but not limited to!) the following:
- 33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you're with us)
- Flexible/hybrid working
- Private health care
- Life assurance
- 5% matched pension contributions
- Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off!)
- Buy-as-you-earn share schemes
- Sabbatical leave (unpaid)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellness webinars
- Focused learning time and learning budgets
- Volunteering day
Find out more about our benefits package here!
Tempted to apply? Read about the hiring process - LINK for this role so you know what to expect.
