Graphic Designer - Part Time, Maximum Term 12 Month Parental Leave Contract
We are looking for a talented and experienced Graphic Designer to create beautiful and brand centric material that artfully portrays the ELK Brand aesthetic to the media and consumers ensuring the ultimate brand experience.
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Part Time, 4 days per week (flexible with choice of days)
- Join an ethical, B Corp Certified, sustainable fashion business
- Generous benefits including product discount and profit share
Your Responsibilities Will Include:
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Design day-to-day creative collateral to brief for required brand content utilising the seasonal photography and seasonal style guide.
- Design digital content to brief including social media content, blogs, EDMs, ad sets, and website assets.
- Ensure all content created is in line with the ELK aesthetic and brand values.
- Proactively suggest and develop new and innovative ways to present digital content. For example creative use of animation, exploring new trends and innovative digital ideas.
- Keep up-to-date with industry best practice, including software and user experience.
- Work across print collateral including store signage and merchandising, packaging, and publications a bonus.
- Assist with the filing and naming of imagery from ecommerce shoots.
What We’ll Love About You
You share our passion and appreciation for sustainable fashion. You are a self-starter, with a positive, proactive mindset and approach to your work. You come equipped with at least 4 years’ experience in a similar role and are very proficient with the leading design suite programs. You have superior new media knowledge and are committed to keeping your skills up to date to ensure ELK continues to be ahead of the digital curve.
Your values and design aesthetic are aligned to ours and you are focussed on sustainability both personally and professionally. You value being part of a collaborative, supportive and nurturing work culture and naturally lend a hand when the opportunity presents. You communicate effectively within your team and across functions to ensure everyone is working towards the same goal.
Who Are You?
You are a perfect match with:
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Minimum 4 years’ experience in a similar role
- Tertiary qualification in Graphic Design or related field (desired)
- Experience utilising design software including Figma (essential), Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Premier Pro, InDesign and Illustrator (Shopify a bonus) will ensure you hit the ground running
- Reputation and folio that demonstrates your capability of creating impressive and on brand digital graphic content
- Photographic retouching ability
- Typography including headline treatments
- Competence with working across various social media and marketing tools including (Facebook, Instagram, Klaviyo, Pintrest, Twitter, E-commerce CMS)
- Multimedia skill base and willingness to proactively develop skills in new media technologies
- Well developed communication, time management and organisational skills
- Ability to pivot and work flexibly, responding to business requirements and market demands
- Superior attention to detail and accuracy
- Exposure to Print highly regarded
In Return We Offer:
- Salary and benefits commensurate with experience
- Access to our generous annual profit share incentive scheme
- Genuine commitment to work life balance
- Highly collaborative, family centric and supportive work environment
- Market leading product discounts for you, your family & friends
- Your birthday off every year
- 2 days paid volunteer leave every year
How To Apply
If this sounds like you, apply here or reach out to us at [email protected] for a copy of the Position Description or to find our more.
As part of your application, please provide:
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a cover letter detailing why you’re the perfect candidate;
- a copy of your resume detailing your relevant experience; and
- a copy of your folio demonstrating your design and collection of work aligned to our brand and aesthetic.
This is a hybrid, part time role based in our Preston office in Melbourne, as such we are unable to consider sponsorship or exclusively remote work for this role. We are open to consider flexible work for the right candidate up to and including an 80% week.
About ELK
At ELK, we nurture an open, inclusive workplace, valuing authenticity, transparency and community and celebrate individual strengths. We strive to ensure our team reflects the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we work. We embrace the opportunity to welcome talent who are passionate not just about what we do but why we do it, irrespective of background, life stage, identity, and ability. Join us on our journey as a responsible business, making better products for a healthier planet.
A pioneer of Australian design, ELK was established in 2004 in Melbourne, Australia. The ELK aesthetic holds a unique place within the international fashion landscape. With a highly considered approach by brand founders Marnie and Adam, ELK collections resonate with their global audience through sustainable and ethical practices, design refinement, trend curation and an intellect that is innately their own. Their sculptural accessories, hand-made leather and ready-to-wear collections define their artful vision while their devotion to ethical and sustainable practices has endured them as a leader in the practice of responsible innovation for the fashion industry. At ELK, we nurture an open, inclusive workplace, valuing authenticity, transparency and community and celebrate individual strengths. We strive to ensure our team reflects the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we work. We embrace the opportunity to welcome talent who are passionate not just about what we do but why we do it, irrespective of background, life stage, identity, and ability. Join us on our journey as a responsible business, making better products for a healthier planet.
