Junior Graphic Designer - Social Media

Junior Social Media Graphic Designer - Contract

Contract Role Portfolio Required

If your camera roll is 30% screenshots of cool design, your saved folders are basically mood boards, and you can spot a social trend before brands ruin it — keep reading.

Ascensio Marketing is looking for a Junior Social Media Graphic Designer to join our growing creative team on a contract basis.

We’re a social media and content agency working across sports, golf, lifestyle, and consumer brands, and we’re looking for someone who understands that great social design isn’t just about making something look pretty, it needs to make someone stop scrolling.

This is an ideal opportunity for an early career designer with strong technical design skills, great taste, and a genuine understanding of social media culture.

You do need to know your way around Photoshop, have a great eye, and understand what’s happening on the internet.

What You’ll Do

• Design scroll-stopping social graphics and carousels for Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and other platforms
• Create trend-driven graphics, memes, editorial-style content, campaign creative, and branded social assets
• Spot emerging social and design trends and find creative ways to adapt them for our clients
• Take a trending carousel, graphic treatment, or creative reference and reimagine it for a completely different brand
• Turn briefs, inspiration, screenshots, and sometimes a very rough idea into polished creative
• Work within brand guidelines while finding ways to make each brand feel current and culturally relevant
• Collaborate with our social and creative teams across multiple client accounts
• Move quickly on reactive content and social trends
• Bring your own ideas, references, and creative inspiration to the table

Some days you’ll be designing a polished branded carousel. Other days we’ll send you something that just started trending and say, “How can we do our version of this?”

We want someone who gets excited by both.

What We’re Looking For

Must-haves:

• Strong proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience working in Canva and Figma
• Strong understanding of Instagram, TikTok, and current social media culture
• Ability to recognize, recreate, and adapt trending design styles, treatments, and social formats
• Strong eye for typography, layout, composition, image manipulation, and visual storytelling
• Ability to take creative inspiration and turn it into something original and on-brand
• Organized, responsive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-moving environment
• Comfortable receiving feedback and iterating quickly
• A portfolio showcasing your design work is required to be considered

Bonus Points

• Experience or familiarity with golf is a major plus
• Experience designing within sports is a plus
• You follow brands because you genuinely love their social content
• You’re constantly saving creative inspiration
• You understand sports, pop culture, and internet culture
• You’ve designed content for lifestyle, fashion, beauty, food & beverage, entertainment, or consumer brands
• You’ve created work outside of school simply because you wanted to make something cool

Who This Role Is For

This is a contract opportunity, We’re looking for someone who is hungry to learn, wants real hands-on experience, and is excited to build a portfolio across multiple brands and industries.

About Ascensio

Ascensio Marketing is a social media and content agency helping brands build engaged digital communities. With deep roots in sports, golf, lifestyle, and consumer brands, we specialize in social strategy, content creation, creative direction, and trend-driven storytelling designed to feel relevant, engaging, and native to social.

How to Apply

Please submit your resume AND portfolio with your application.

Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

We especially want to see social media graphics, Instagram carousels, trend-inspired creative, campaign concepts, Photoshop work, and personal or passion projects.

Your portfolio doesn’t need to be filled with big-name clients. We want to see your taste, creativity, technical ability, and how you think.

We can’t wait to connect!

Pay: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour

Work Location: Remote