About the Role

We’re on the hunt for a talented Freelance Mid-Weight Digital Designer to join our growing creative team. This role is perfect for a designer with an advertising background who thrives on creating compelling campaigns across multiple platforms – and who’s ready to take ownership of studio workflow and priorities.

As a Mid-Weight Digital Designer, you’ll work closely with our Strategists, Communications and Media specialists to design creative campaigns that connect with clients’ audiences and deliver results. Alongside hands-on design work, you’ll also manage the studio – overseeing priorities, balancing workloads, and ensuring projects move smoothly from brief to delivery.

If you’re passionate about design that doesn’t just look good but actually works in the market – and you enjoy keeping a studio running at its best – we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

- Conceptualise and design digital campaigns across social media, display, and video.
- Create and roll out assets across platforms, adapting visuals for each channel.
- Deliver high-impact creative for print, outdoor, and brand activations.
- Develop or refresh brand identities, including logos, colour palettes, typography, and usage guidelines




- Collaborate with the creative and media team to ensure design aligns with audience insight and campaign strategy.
- Edit engaging and well-paced content in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Experience editing short-form video and image content for social media platforms
- Experience editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and Canva

What We’re Looking For

- 3+ years’ experience in a design or creative agency role (advertising background highly regarded).
- Strong skills in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro).
- Experience in video, animation, and motion graphics.
- Experience and understanding of AI tools in creative production.
- Ability to deliver across digital and traditional formats (social, display, OOH, print, video).
- Robust understanding of clients, audiences, and what makes advertising effective.
- Experience managing studio priorities, workflow, and project timelines.
- Bonus: Hands-on experience in video production and editing.
- A collaborative, proactive attitude and passion for great design that performs.

Apply now with your CV, portfolio, and a short note on what excites you about this role.

Interested?

What are you waiting for, we are excited to hear from you!

📌 Freelance Graphic Designer with Video Editing (Sydney)
🏢 Ardent Communications
📍 Sydney