Designer, Social

About Athena 

Athena is a marketing consultancy where great ideas take flight. With a blend of strategic thinking, creative vision, and hands-on execution, we partner with organizations looking to transform their presence, reputation, and performance. For over ten years, we’ve delivered business insights, marketing strategies, and brand activations for leading organizations in industries ranging from telecommunications to major league sports. 

Our people make Athena, Athena. They’re what help set us apart from traditional ad agencies and consultancies. As a 2023 Philadelphia Inquirer Top Workplace, we take pride in fostering a work environment where passion meets excellence. Our people are solutions-oriented individuals who eagerly roll up their sleeves to make work that works while sharing a couple of laughs along the way.  

About the Position 

The Social Creative Team within our Creative Group produces engaging, impactful, thoughtful, exciting, and elevated content to represent a Fortune 30 brand across various social platforms. The SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGNER in this group should be a highly enthusiastic creative who loves design and finds joy in creating visual solutions. Color, typography, photography, animation, and compositions - you advocate for the power of design. The SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGNER will work closely with other social media team members to create highly engaging content on multiple platforms. While the focus will be on social creative, we see the role as broader. The SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGNER will also work with other teams holistically from end to end in a highly collaborative environment.

Requirements

What you’ll be responsible for: 

• Work with creative leaders, producers, and project managers to support the team in all project-related tasks across mediums.
• Quickly ideate and execute a high volume of engaging content across multiple media platforms, using primarily in-house resources.
• Understand the brand’s goals, strategy, and tone of voice to connect with audiences.
• Have the ability to collaborate with teammates or work solo on rapid-fire requests, tight timelines, and longer-term projects.
• Attend creative brainstorms, kick-offs, and reviews, contributing meaningful ideas.
• Follow the direction of creative leadership on best practices, ideating, and execution.
• Use feedback and recommendations to deliver positive results.
• Contribute to a great work environment that celebrates everyone’s success.
• Add your skills to the team. Be proactive and share design references and inspiration to raise the quality of the work.

The skills and experience you should have: 

• Excellent knowledge of Figma, Adobe CC, photo retouching, and photo editing.
• Ability to design across many media, considering best practices and accessibility.
• A self-starter who can develop designs from ideation to execution.
• Experience in a digital, social media, or advertising agency.
• Ability to produce content quickly and extremely detail-oriented.
• A collaborative attitude, can take feedback, and stay calm under pressure.
• Cultural savviness. Awareness of cultural moments and trends that help improve the work.
• Lives and breathes social. Regularly uses social media platforms and knows best practices, formats, and capabilities. Understands the nuances between TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, etc.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Working knowledge of photography (mobile and DSLR), motion graphics, animation, video editing, 3D, and other skills are a plus.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental benefits including of 1K Health Reimbursement Account
• Matching 401K
• Generous PTO policy
• Substantial Parental Leave Policy
• Hybrid Work Environment (4 days on-site in Philadelphia, PA)
  

Curious about your career path at Athena? This role is within a rapidly growing creative department and the right candidate can excel, produce great work, and have an immediate impact on Athena’s creative product culture and growth.

Oh, and our application process is open, easy, as transparent as we can make it, and painless. We need team members like you to join us! Let’s get started.

Athena is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position, please contact us at 866.299.6040.