We’re an ambitious, remote-first travel scale-up, looking to expand our marketing team with an exceptional creative designer (part time). If you’re a skilled graphic designer with a love for the outdoors, this is the role for you!
Read more about working at Much Better Adventures.
The Role:
We’re looking for a versatile creative designer to take ownership of our visual output across all marketing channels. This is a key role to support our marketing team by creating eye-catching, on-brand designs that resonate with our audience and bring our adventures, community and stories to life.
This is a part-time role for someone with graphic design expertise, a knack for illustrations, and responsive design knowledge. You’ll work across digital ad creatives, organic social templates, newsletters, and ad hoc projects like premium content and partnership assets. Bonus points if you have experience with print, video, or animation.
Why You’ll Love It Here
We’re driven by a shared passion for unleashing the transformative power of adventure. As part of a small, focused team, you’ll shape our creative output across multiple channels, collaborating closely with the paid and organic marketing teams and in-house product designer.
We embrace a culture of learning and improvement, constantly evolving how we work to suit the challenges we face. You’ll find a supportive, collaborative environment where ideas are valued, feedback is encouraged, and experimentation is part of our DNA.
Key Responsibilities
Creative Concept Ideation and Development:
- Work with the marketing team to develop creative concepts and ideas to support campaign objectives.
Digital Ad Creatives:
- Design scroll-stopping, on-brand ad creatives for Meta, Google, programmatic channels, and other paid platforms.
- Experiment with different formats to optimise performance while maintaining a consistent visual identity.
Responsive Design
- Create visually compelling designs that work seamlessly across various screen sizes and devices, ensuring an optimal user experience.
Social Media & Organic Content
- Create templates and bespoke assets for organic social media campaigns.
- Design visually striking one-off pieces for key campaigns or launches.
Email & Newsletter Design
- Design reusable and flexible email templates for newsletters and campaigns.
Partnership & Premium Content
- Produce assets for partnerships (co-branded visuals, banners, etc.).
- Design layouts for premium content like magazine articles, infographics or long-form storytelling.
Illustration & Branding
- Use your illustration skills to enhance our brand visuals across the website, campaigns, and organic posts.
- Help us elevate our visual identity through original illustrated content.
Video and Animation
- Produce video assets to support social campaigns.
- Collaborate with our in-house video editor.
Ad Hoc Campaign Support
- Support creative needs for new trip launches, special campaigns, or one-off projects.
Requirements
Skills and Experience
- Graphic Design Expertise: Proven experience designing for digital platforms, particularly paid ads, social channels, and email. Bonus points for HTML5 experience.
- Responsive Design Knowledge: Experience designing responsive assets for the web, ensuring optimal usability and aesthetics across devices.
- Illustration Ability: A strong eye for hand-drawn or digital illustration styles, with the ability to create unique, adventure-themed visuals.
- Software Proficiency: Advanced skills in design tools like Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) or equivalent. Canva (or similar) familiarity is a bonus.
- Video Collaboration: Basic understanding of video production or ability to work effectively with a video editor.
- Relevant Industry Experience: Proven track record of working within a brand marketing team or creative agency, delivering high-quality designs that align with brand strategies and goals.
Attributes:
- Creative & Adventurous: Passionate about adventure travel and able to bring that excitement to your designs.
- Detail-Oriented: Meticulous about design consistency and accuracy across formats.
- Self-Starter: Comfortable managing a part-time, remote role and prioritising tasks effectively.
- Team Player: Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with the marketing and video teams.
Benefits
- An entrepreneurial and creative environment where great ideas are actively encouraged, and taking responsibility for them is expected
- The warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing you are making a huge difference to small independent businesses, local economies and communities
- 38 days holiday per year pro rata (inclusive of public holidays)
- Annual company performance-based bonus
- Flexible hours set up (40 hours p/w for full time roles), and a fully remote company
- Company-wide, adventurous meet-ups
- Experience what we do: everyone goes on a free MBA trip within their first year
- A £500 annual travel voucher to spend on an MBA trip/s
- 30% Employee discount, plus 15% friends and family discount for MBA trips
- Generous Pension scheme (UK employees only)
- Free access to private GP, and unlimited mental health support and counselling via our partner at BHSF.
- Budget to set up a remote working space and access to co-working spaces
- Supportive Maternity and Paternity Pay: we offer 16 weeks full pay if you’re the primary caregiver & 4 weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.
What does the typical interview process look like?
Our hiring process is fully remote, and all interviews are done online. Every application is carefully read by a real member of the team (no AI screening here).
- Stage 1: Initial application and automated screening Q&A
- Stage 2: A ‘get to know each other’ interview, to find out more about your experience and see if we’re a good fit. (approx 30–45 mins)
- Stage 3: A project assignment, plus preparation for a short presentation to be given in the interview.
- Stage 4: In-depth interview where we review your assignment, listen to your presentation, with two members of the MBA team. (Approx 60–90 mins)
Job ‘Need to Know’ details:
- Preferred Start Date: Jan / Feb 2025
- Salary Range: £30,000 - £40,000 pro-rata based on a part-time (20-25 hours per week) commitment. Compensation will depend on experience and skill level.
- Working Hours: a part time role is 20-25 hours per week, with core hours being 1000 - 1500 GMT (regardless of where you are based), and a flexible hours policy for the remaining time.
- Location: you must be resident either in the UK or in Europe (max +2 hours GMT)
Note: Contract and benefits will vary depending on which country you are based in - this will be discussed at an appropriate stage in the interview process.
We are an equal opportunities employer and strongly encourage applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and industries. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to support everyone in the team to achieve that important work/life balance in a way that works for their particular circumstances.
