The Walk Agency is looking for a grounded, mid-weight Graphic Designer who understands that in an AI-accelerated world, the true value of a designer lies in taste, strategy, and brand clarity. We need a brand-aware visual storyteller and strategic collaborator architect, i.e., someone who can take a brief, extract the narrative, and translate it into a high-impact visual execution.

We’re looking for someone with creative design superpowers and a superb eye for detail to join our growing agency. A proactive and energetic superstar who can take a brief, shape strong visual ideas, and carry them through to polished, on-brand execution, while collaborating closely with strategy, content and digital.

We think this could be a great opportunity for a designer who wants to be a part of high-quality agency work without committing to the full-time grind. Perhaps a return-to-work parent, a freelancer looking for more stability, or anyone who wants meaningful, interesting work that fits around life.

The role

Title: Mid-weight Designer
Type: Part-time (3 days per week)
Location: On-site in either:

  • Melbourne office, or
  • Sunshine Coast office

We’re flexible on how the days and hours are structured. School hours are absolutely fine if that’s what works for you. We also respect clear boundaries: when you’re off, you’re off.

You’ll be the go-to designer for day-to-day creative needs: shaping and implementing a wide range of design projects across clients and channels. You’ll work closely with the founders and senior team, becoming a trusted creative partner and a steady design presence in the agency.

What you’ll be doing

Brand strategy & visual architecture

  • Developing and refining visual identities: Moving beyond simple concepts to build robust brand systems that ensure long-term consistency.
  • Designing for meaning: Creating brand and campaign assets across digital and print that don’t just “look pretty” but provide brand clarity and solve business problems.
  • Translating narratives: Taking brand guidelines and applying them creatively to ensure the “story” remains impactful across every touchpoint.
  • High-impact communication: Designing presentations and pitches that use taste and emotional depth to communicate ideas persuasively.
  • Iconic execution: Producing layouts and artwork that are accurate, production-ready, and reflect a high standard of craft.

Creative content & storytelling

  • Narrative building: Collaborating with writers, strategists, and AI to bring content and campaigns to life visually, ensuring the design enhances the message.
  • Directing digital assets: Designing social tiles, ads, and UI elements with an eye for business impact and user engagement.
  • Systemic design: Preparing and optimising graphics for web, ensuring designs are implemented faithfully and practically across platforms.

Curation, quality & taste

  • Owning the “final mile”: Applying human taste and polish to every file, ensuring exports and specs are flawless and production-ready.
  • Brand guardianship: Maintaining a consistent visual standard across all clients, acting as a protector of the integrity of the system.
  • Optimising the machine: Keeping shared design files and libraries organised and intuitive, making it easy for the team to navigate complex brand systems.

Strategic collaboration & AI direction

  • Clarifying the “why”: Taking briefs and asking the “smart questions” that get to the heart of thinking and direction before the first pixel is moved.
  • Workflow innovation: Suggesting improvements to design workflows (including how we utilise AI tools) to ensure work is faster and cleaner without losing human depth.
  • Collaborative growth: Giving and receiving feedback constructively within a senior team that values quality over ego and business impact over mere decoration.
  • Seamless continuity: Preparing clear handovers so projects maintain momentum, ensuring your strategic intent is carried through even when you aren’t at your desk.

Your job is not just to “make things look pretty”, but to sit at the intersection of craft, clarity and strategy: creating iconic work that carries emotional weight, works hard for our clients, and can actually be produced effectively.

About you

You are a human designer who understands that while tools evolve, taste and strategy are irreplaceable. You will likely be someone who:

  • Has solid experience as a mid-weight designer in an agency, studio, or in-house marketing team.
  • Can show a strong, varied portfolio that demonstrates not just technical skill, but thinking, brand clarity, and business impact.
  • Is a master of the Adobe CC suite and proficient in employing AI and other technologies to accelerate high quality production, while providing the human perspective and intelligence that a machine cannot
  • Is a story translator: you understand how design works across different media (including video and digital) to maintain long-term consistency.
  • Is comfortable building and navigating brand systems, knowing when to push the boundaries and when to anchor the work in the system’s logic.
  • Has an uncompromising eye for taste and detail, taking pride in iconic work that is supported by clean, production-ready files.
  • Can juggle multiple projects with a strategic mindset, communicating clearly about priorities and the “why” behind your design direction.
  • Is a collaborative strategist: you enjoy working alongside writers and thinkers to ensure the creative output is cohesive and meaningful.
  • Is solutions-focused and practical: you design with constraints in mind, ensuring craft and clarity are never sacrificed for the sake of a trend.

Experience in a creative, marketing, or digital agency environment is ideal. Skills in motion, video, or basic web (for example, WordPress or simple HTML/CSS) are a bonus, as they help you further direct the narrative across channels.

Flexibility and work environment

We are deliberately designing this as a part-time, flexible role:

  • 3 days per week (with some flexibility in how those days are structured)
  • Hours can be structured around school hours or other commitments
  • On-site in our Melbourne or Sunshine Coast office: we value in-person collaboration and support, especially for creative work
  • Clear, agreed working hours: no expectation to stretch into evenings or weekends
  • Potential to grow the role over time as the agency expands (more hours, broader creative scope, or development into a more senior design or art direction path if that’s of interest)

Why work with The Walk Agency?

  • Work closely with the founders and senior team, with a visible impact on the work that goes out the door
  • Build strong creative capability in a growing, integrated marketing agency
  • Join a small, supportive team that values honesty, initiative, collaboration and craft
  • Do meaningful, varied design work across a wide range of clients and sectors
  • Enjoy genuine flexibility, with a role designed to support work–life balance rather than fight it

How to apply

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. Please send:

  • Your CV
  • A portfolio (PDF or link) that shows:
    • A range of brand, digital and campaign work
    • A brief note on your role on each project (if it’s not obvious)
  • A short cover note telling us:
    • Why this role and The Walk Agency appeal to you
    • How many days and what hours you are ideally looking for
    • Whether you would be based in Melbourne or Sunshine Coast

N.B. Australian work rights must be held at the time of application.

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