Join Archetype
At Archetype, you help clients think bigger, go further, and achieve more. With over 40 years of experience and 21 offices worldwide, you join a team of 650+ creative individuals turning ambitions into success.
Our people are the heart of our achievements. Whether you're starting out or a seasoned pro, if you take pride in your work and have bold ambitions, Archetype might be the place for you.
You are a creative thinker, problem solver, and storyteller. You thrive in a high-standard environment, where curiosity is encouraged, ambition celebrated, and kindness valued. As a self-motivated storyteller, you break new ground with strategic, creative campaigns.
We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Your unique ideas and perspectives help us do our best work and make a difference in the world.
About You
You are an early-career Designer looking to grow your portfolio with real client work. As a Freelance Designer, you join our Creative Team on a project or part-time basis, supporting Designers and Creatives across PR, Social, Digital and Integrated campaigns.
You enjoy turning ideas into visuals. This includes assets across multi-platform social posts, simple campaign layouts, presentation slides and basic brand assets. You are comfortable working with creative direction, open to feedback, and motivated to sharpen your craft with each round of revisions.
You are organised, detail-oriented and curious about how design fits into the broader world of brand, communications and marketing. You want to see how work moves from brief to concept to execution in a fast-moving agency environment.
What You Do
As a Freelance Designer, you support the creative team in bringing ideas to life across a range of channels and formats. You will:
- Design and adapt visual assets for campaigns, including social posts, simple digital ads, presentation decks, reports and basic web or email visuals.
- Translate creative briefs and direction into clear, on-brand layout options, exploring variations where needed.
- Support motion design for social assets (e.g. animations, reels, story formats) under guidance from Senior Creatives.
- Prepare and tidy design files for internal reviews and client presentations, ensuring assets are well-organised and ready to share.
- Resize, reformat and localise existing assets for different markets and platforms.
- Work with account and PR teams to visualise stories through simple infographics, micrographics, data visualisations and content layouts.
- Apply and maintain brand guidelines across all outputs, paying attention to design systems, colour systems, typography, hierarchy, spacing and imagery across offline and digital executions, making sure every pixel is perfect.
- Respond to feedback and amends with a positive mindset, iterating quickly while keeping quality high.
Over time, you will start to contribute your own design ideas and recommendations, building confidence in proposing visual directions that support the wider concept and campaign.
What You Offer
- A digital portfolio that shows strong fundamentals in layout, typography and visual storytelling and brand systems across static, motion and digital work.
- You bring solid hands-on experience as a designer, with the ability to work independently and own projects from brief to final delivery.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and Figma and comfortable moving between static and motion workflows. . Experience in 3D is also a plus.
- Ability to execute light to medium motion design for social and digital assets from storyboarding and animating simple sequences to editing cutdowns and reels using tools like After Effects, Premiere Pro or similar editing software.
- Familiarity with social platforms such as Meta, LinkedIn, X and Threads, and understand how design needs to adapt across formats, placements and specifications
- Experience in UI design and can create clear, on-brand interfaces and layouts for websites, landing pages or simple product experiences from wireframes through to high-fidelity screens.
- You have strong video and film editing capabilities and can handle edits, cutdowns, transitions, pacing, audio sync and simple text or graphic overlays as a core part of your craft.
- Strong attention to detail and care deeply about craft from design systems and colour usage to typography, hierarchy, spacing and pixel-level polish across offline and digital executions.
- Ability to follow brand guidelines and creative direction while still bringing fresh, thoughtful ideas that push the work forward.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, managing multiple projects or workstreams at once and communicating clearly about progress and dependencies.
- Openness to feedback and a willingness to iterate. You see critique as part of the creative process to sharpen the work.
- Experience using AI tools for static and moving imagery for example Midjourney, Gemini, or similar and know how to integrate AI outputs thoughtfully into a professional design workflow.
This role is ideal if you are looking for freelance work that builds your portfolio with real agency projects.
Why Archetype
- Opportunity to work with colleagues from 21 offices worldwide, gaining diverse perspectives and experiences. Part of an organization that prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring a welcoming and inclusive workplace for all.
- A team that values curiosity, ambition, and kindness, fostering a supportive and inspiring work environment.
- Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities to enhance your skills and grow your career.
We offer a unique working environment that encourages people to try new things without fear of failure. We work flexibly, we're agile, and we're not afraid to experiment
