Digital Designer (Beauty)

Employment Type: Freelance
Location: Hybrid in NYC (3x per week onsite)

About the Role

We are seeking a highly creative, digitally fluent Digital Designer to elevate the visual expression of leading beauty brands across every digital touchpoint. This freelance back-fill role will own design execution for ecommerce, paid media, email, social channels, and retail partner platforms—turning brand vision into compelling, performance-driven creative.

The ideal candidate combines a refined aesthetic with a strong understanding of digital performance. You bring elevated, aspirational storytelling to every project while remaining commercially minded and attentive to channel-specific requirements. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities confidently, and approach campaigns with a 360° digital-first perspective.

Key Responsibilities

• Design high-quality digital creative for ecommerce, paid media, email, social media, and retail partner platforms.
• Translate brand strategy, campaign concepts, and product stories into cohesive visual experiences.
• Develop assets that balance premium brand expression with measurable performance objectives.
• Adapt creative concepts across formats, channels, audiences, and platform specifications.
• Collaborate with creative, marketing, ecommerce, and cross-functional partners to deliver assets on schedule.
• Maintain consistent visual standards across campaign and always-on digital touchpoints.
• Bring current design trends, beauty-category inspiration, and fresh ideas to creative development.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines within a high-volume creative workflow.

Qualifications

• Strong digital design portfolio featuring polished, aspirational, and performance-aware creative.
• Experience designing for ecommerce, paid social, email, digital advertising, and social media.
• Excellent visual storytelling, typography, layout, and image-retouching skills.
• Strong understanding of digital-first design principles and channel-specific best practices.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with creative and cross-functional teams.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Passion for beauty, consumer brands, and emerging digital creative trends.