Graphic Designer - Urgent Hire

Yarn Marketplace, Australia’s largest First Nations supporting business is on the hunt for a motivated  Digital Designer to work across all our digital platforms.

Working from our Morningside, Brisbane office, you will be responsible for creating highly engaging content/assets for our social media, paid ads, email marketing and website, as well as enhancing user experience to provide the best shopping experience for our customers.

About Us:

Yarn is an Indigenous marketplace with 35 culturally diverse Indigenous and Non-Indigenous team members.We are driven by one mission: creating an inclusive online marketplace for and in collaboration with the Indigenous community, to provide a platform for Indigenous owned businesses, all-friendly businesses and Indigenous artists to share their culture and unique stories with our customers. Yarn showcases one of a kind designs - designs that speak of Country, culture, and the Dreamtime. 

The Role 

This is a highly dynamic role. Through this role you will have the opportunity to make a real impact on First Nations communities by promoting the works of Indigenous artists, and sharing their important stories with Yarn’s wide reaching Australian audience. 

Your day-to-day responsibilities

Develop the overarching seasonal campaign design direction across all brand touchpoints

• Design digital assets for use on the website, social media, edMs, paid ads and marketing campaigns
• Design homepages, landing pages & onsite collateral in line with the digital calendar
• Plan out social media including posts and stories for Instagram and Facebook 
• Bring your interactive and digital design skills to assist in delivering a diverse range of projects and jumping in anywhere you’re comfortable to help out

Our ideal candidate 

• 2+ years of demonstrated design experience 
• Be highly proficient in the use of design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Illustrator and Indesign)
• Highly developed skills in design, typography, composition and layout 
• Experience using email marketing platforms (Klaviyo or similar)
• Experience in e-commerce platforms and their associated plug-ins and apps (Shopify or similar) 
• Experience in planning out and executing marketing campaigns, creating assets for websites and social media 
• Excellent communications skills and ability to work collaboratively as a part of tight knit team 
• Bonus points for experience in UX and UI design, coding, and the ability to troubleshoot using HTML, CSS and comparable languages 

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to building an environment where everyone feels included, valued and heard. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging are an important part of our everyday work culture. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations peoples, people with disabilities, people from gender or sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. 

If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you! Please send your resume and portfolio to [email protected]