Department: Marketing

Location: Home based, UK 

Reports to: Editor-in-Chief

Hours: 37.5  per week

Salary: (Depending on experience) 

A quick note before you apply: We are only able to accept applications from candidates who are currently based in the UK and hold the legal right to work here.

Role Overview 

You'll design most of what Cambridge Spark publishes on social, with LinkedIn as the main channel. That covers the company page and the profiles of our senior people. It's a hands-on making job, and you'll use AI tools every day to get more done and try things a small team couldn't otherwise manage. You'll also be the person who knows which formats are working on LinkedIn right now and why.

It suits someone early in their design career who's ready for a big step up. As the team grows there's plenty of room to grow with it.
 

Key responsibilities:

• Design LinkedIn content, including single-image posts, infographics, carousels, motion graphics and event promotion
• Make graphics for our newsletter, blog and resources section, podcast artwork and assets for our two shows (Data and AI Mastery and Inside the Algorithm), plus one-off pieces for campaigns
• Use generative image and video tools to produce original visuals, and know when a piece needs proper design work instead of a generated image
• Help build a consistent visual language for Cambridge Spark as the brand develops
• Turn briefs from editorial, marketing and sales into finished work, and push back when a brief isn't clear
• Run your own pipeline of requests, deadlines and approvals, and help keep the content calendar up to date
• Track how posts perform and use what you find to shape the next round
   

Candidate Specification:

Essential:

• A degree or equivalent qualification in graphic design
• A portfolio that shows social-first design work
• Strong working knowledge of Figma and Canva, and experience building in Framer
• Regular, hands-on use of generative AI tools including Midjourney and Higgsfield, along with the models available inside it such as Seedance, Kling and Nano Banana
• A clear understanding of what earns reach and engagement on LinkedIn and social media
• Strong organisation, and the ability to manage several projects and stakeholders at once without things slipping

Desirable:

• Motion design or video editing experience
• Evidence of growing an audience for your own brand or someone else's (we'd like to see the numbers)
• Experience designing for a B2B audience
• Confidence writing short copy for posts and graphics
• An interest in AI and how it's changing work

Company Benefits: 

• Pension with 4% matched contributions, opportunity to opt into salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave 
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• CPD Allowance alongside quarterly reflections to ring fence time for development and growth
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated company counsellor

Background to our Organisation

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

 

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

 

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m. 

Our Values

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

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Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.  Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.