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Social Media Designer, Creative

Athena Global Advisors

Philadelphia, pennsylvania


Job Details

Full-time


Full Job Description

About Athena 

Athena is a marketing consultancy where great ideas take flight. With a blend of strategic thinking, creative vision, and hands-on execution, we partner with organizations looking to transform their presence, reputation, and performance. For over ten years, we’ve delivered business insights, marketing strategies, and brand activations for leading organizations in industries ranging from telecommunications to major league sports. 

Our people make Athena, Athena. They’re what help set us apart from traditional ad agencies and consultancies. As a 2023 and 2024 Philadelphia Inquirer Top Workplace, we take pride in fostering a work environment where passion meets excellence. Our people are solutions-oriented individuals who eagerly roll up their sleeves to make work that works while sharing a couple of laughs along the way.  

Overview

The Social Creative Team within our Creative Group produces engaging, impactful, thoughtful, exciting, and elevated content to represent a Fortune 30 brand across various social platforms. The SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGNER in this group should be a highly enthusiastic creative who loves design and finds joy in creating visual solutions. Color, typography, photography, animation, and compositions - you advocate for the power of design. While primarily focused on creating scroll-stopping social graphics, the SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGNER will also have the exciting opportunity to help define the look and feel of a fortune 30 company on social media and work with other teams holistically in a highly collaborative environment.

Requirements

What you’ll be responsible for: 

  • Create visually compelling social media designs.
    • Quickly ideate and execute a high volume of engaging content across multiple social media platforms, using primarily in-house resources.
    • Support the social creative lead with visual assets and art direction.
    • Using existing creative assets and photography, provide creative solutions and reimagine them for use in a social media context.
    • Attend creative brainstorms, kick-offs, and reviews, contributing meaningful ideas.
  • Collaborate with the rest of the creative team to bring social-first ideas to campaigns and project-related tasks.
  • Help define the social media visual style guide, pushing creative boundaries while maintaining the brand's visual standards.
    • Understand the brand’s goals, strategy, and tone of voice.
    • Follow the direction of creative leadership on best practices, ideating, and execution.
  • Create content that makes measurable and impactful connections with target audiences.
    • Leverage performance metrics and insights provided by the social and analytics team to influence creative ideation and execution.
    • Stay up to date with relevant social media trends to help optimize creative performance.
  • Collaborate with teammates or work solo on rapid-fire requests, tight timelines, and longer-term projects.
  • Contribute to a great work environment that celebrates everyone’s success.
  • Add your skills to the team. Be proactive and share design references and inspiration to raise the quality of the work.

The skills and experience you should have: 

  • Experience creating well-crafted visual assets for social media either in house or at an agency.
  • 3-5 years of relevant social media and design experience.
  • Lives and breathes social. Regularly uses social media platforms and is familiar with best practices, formats, and capabilities. Understands the nuances between TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, etc. 
  • Excellent knowledge of Figma, Adobe CC, photo retouching, and photo editing.
  • Working knowledge of photography (mobile and DSLR), motion graphics, animation, video editing, 3D, and other skills are a plus.
  • You have a flair for breaking down complex information into simple and engaging graphics.
  • Ability to design across many media, considering best practices and accessibility.
  • A self-starter who can develop designs from ideation to execution.
  • Ability to produce content quickly and extremely detail-oriented.
  • A collaborative attitude, can take feedback, and stay calm under pressure.
  • Cultural savviness. Awareness of cultural moments and trends that help improve the work.

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental benefits including of 1K Health Reimbursement Account
  • Matching 401K
  • Generous PTO policy
  • Substantial Parental Leave Policy
  • Hybrid Work Environment (4 days on-site in Philadelphia, PA)

Curious about your career path at Athena? This role is within a rapidly growing creative department and the right candidate can excel, produce great work, and have an immediate impact on Athena’s creative product culture and growth.

Oh, and our application process is open, easy, as transparent as we can make it, and painless. We need team members like you to join us! Let’s get started.

Athena is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position, please contact us at 866.299.6040.

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