JUNIOR DESIGNER / CLIENT & PROJECT LEAD HYBRID

Salary band: $55k-68k (excluding Super) depending on experience and breadth of skills.

About Focus Group

Focus Group is a BCorp certified collective of complementary agencies specialising in big ideas, great design, and unlocking opportunities through authentic sustainability. Clients can choose one, or unlock the power of three.

- Focus Creative – Our strategic creative agency, making ambitious brands impossible to overlook.

- Batch Services – Our high-quality design, content, and production service focused on speed and efficiency.

- Future Focus – Our sustainability arm, helping organisations authentically align commitments, culture and communication for sustainable, long-term business success.

Why Focus? At Focus Group, every day is an opportunity to push creative boundaries and bring bold ideas to life. Our work environment is dynamic, and constantly evolving, perfect for those who thrive on challenge and disruption.

- Fast-paced environment: Quick turnarounds and tight deadlines are part of the work. Overtime is not the norm, but sometimes needed every now and again.

- Industry-benchmarked salaries: Competitive pay with clear planning for growth.

- Learn on the job: Hands-on experience, mentoring, and continuous development opportunities.

- Collaboration: Work closely with an award-winning, talented, cross-disciplinary team.

- Flexibility & perks: Flexible core hours (10am–4pm), hybrid work (WFH Mondays & Fridays), Fri-Yay (early finish), floating public holidays and culture club activities.

What makes working here different Focus Group operates without traditional account managers. Everyone has direct client contact, from taking briefs to presenting work. Our model is built on T-shaped capability: broad generalist skills across delivery, with deep mastery in a specialism.

We work in autonomous teams built on radical responsibility, proactive communication, smart use of AI and tools and a commitment to producing consistently high-quality work efficiently, even under tight timelines and changing priorities.

This role suits someone who is both strong on the tools and highly organised, comfortable owning projects end-to-end, including managing clients, timelines and delivery alongside developing ideas.

Role purpose

This role sits within Design specialism

. You will work as part of a cross-functional team to deliver high-quality work for clients,



combining strong generalist delivery skills with deep expertise in your specialist area.

You are responsible for working on projects end-to-end, including client management, scoping, timelines and delivery. There is no separate project or account layer. You own the work and how it gets done, supported by the team.

This junior role is heavily execution-focused. Success in the role comes from strong attention to detail, speed, adaptability, responsiveness to feedback and the ability to deliver polished work consistently across multiple outputs and formats.

Work includes brand implementation, graphic design, layout, content production, and digital or presentation design. Works across both fast-turnaround work and deeper creative delivery.

Level expectation

Junior

Builds foundational skills and supports delivery across projects. Completes defined tasks, takes ownership and works closely with more senior team members. Learns quickly, responds positively to feedback, adapts fast to changing priorities, and builds confidence through consistent delivery and improvement. Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with clear accountability for deadlines and output quality.

Core responsbilities

General responsibilities

- Work efficiently across multiple fast-moving projects, balancing quality, speed and responsiveness to deadlines.
- Respond constructively to feedback and implement revisions quickly and accurately.
- Contribute positively to team culture through reliability, initiative and a hands-on attitude.
- Lead client relationships day-to-day, including taking and shaping briefs for small-medium projects
- Own small-medium project delivery from start to finish, including scope, timelines and output quality (training will be provided on Focus management system Streamtime, during the onboarding process).
- Manage quoting, proposals and commercial decisions on your work (training will be provided on Focus management system Streamtime, during the onboarding process).
- Manage suppliers and freelancers to deliver work efficiently
- Present work clearly and confidently




- Identify and resolve delivery issues early
- Active use of AI and automation tools to enhance speed and quality of work.
- Strong self-management: planning work, communicating availability and meeting deadlines.

Specialism responsibilities

- Deliver high-volume rollout and production work across campaign assets, presentations, social, print and digital formats.
- Maintain consistency and attention to detail across large suites of assets and amends.
- Develop designs to solve unique client problems creatively.
- A fully integrated role creating design assets across multi-channel campaigns.
- Support the development and creation of all design requirements in line with our clients brands and strategy.
- Rollout of design concepts across various formats and sizes
- Artworking of design assets for print, digital and large format
- Demonstrate a explicit understanding of projects, responding to briefs with a fresh and innovative approach.
- Client facing and presentation of creative/design work.
- Participate in creative sessions.
- Stay immersed in design industry trends, developments and tools.

Specialism requirements

- A relevant degree in design, visual communication, creative or related field preferred.
- Proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator etc), proficiency in Figma and Canva beneficial.
- Experience in designing across all formats (eg: print, digital, social and multimedia).
- A strong sense of visual design and in-depth knowledge of graphic design, styles and layout techniques.
- The ability to take ideas and develop concepts, and take them through to implementation and execution.
- Experience in an agency environment would be beneficial, but not necessary

Diversity & Inclusion Focus Group does not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any basis. This includes, but isn’t limited to, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental ability. Focus Group encourages applications from minorities, women, those living with disability, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, you can confidentially let us know.

Visa & eligibility

Only those with valid Australian work authorisation and located in Sydney will be considered for the role (unless otherwise stated). Visa, residency, or citizenship status will be checked.

📌 Junior Designer / Client & Project lead hybrid (Sydney)
🏢 Focus Group: Focus Creative (BCorp), Future Focus (BCorp) u0026 Batch Services
📍 Sydney