Freelance Senior Creative Manager (3-Month Contract)

About the role

codeNinja is looking for a highly creative and experienced Freelance Senior Graphic Designer for a three-month engagement. You'll raise the quality, consistency and presentation of brand and marketing materials across internal and external communications.

This isn't just about producing one-off designs. The goal is to leave behind a practical, scalable design system and a library of reusable, easy-to-edit marketing assets that teams can use long after the engagement ends.

You'll work closely with the Marketing & PR team and report to the Marketing & PR Manager.

What you'll do

Brand guidelines & visual identity

• Review existing brand guidelines and how they're currently applied
• Identify inconsistencies and refine the use of typography, color, imagery, icons, layouts and graphic elements
• Create practical guidance for applying the brand across digital and corporate communications

Corporate & marketing templates

• Build a library of editable templates: PowerPoint master and presentation layouts, internal and HR communications, departmental announcements, memos, event invitations, partnership/MOU announcements, executive communications, and infographic/statistics layouts
• Make sure every template is easy for non-designers to edit and fully on-brand

Social media design system

• Create reusable formats for LinkedIn, X and Instagram
• Cover announcements, thought leadership, products and services, events, partnerships, employee highlights, quotes, statistics and educational content
• Establish a recognizable, consistent visual language across all channels

Corporate portfolio redesign

• Fully redesign the company portfolio with stronger visual hierarchy and storytelling
• Improve layouts, typography, imagery, infographics, product/service pages and case study layouts
• Deliver a polished portfolio suitable for clients, partners, executives and events

Newsletters & email design

• Design a flexible newsletter system (corporate, internal, product updates, events, leadership messages, success stories) with multiple layout options
• Create branded email templates for announcements, HR, leadership, events, invitations, news and engagement campaigns

Video & motion graphics

• Design and edit short-form corporate videos: showreels, product, social, event and leadership videos
• Build a reusable video toolkit: logo animations, intros/outros, lower thirds, title cards, transitions, subtitles and captions

Digital & screen assets

• Design desktop wallpapers, screensavers, office and event screens, digital signage, and meeting/Teams backgrounds

What you'll deliver

A complete Marketing & Brand Design Toolkit, including enhanced brand guidelines, template libraries, social and newsletter systems, email templates, a redesigned portfolio, video and motion assets, an icon and graphic library, and organized master source files with clear folder structure and naming conventions.

Requirements

• Strong portfolio in corporate branding and marketing design (portfolio link required)
• Experience with corporate, technology, financial services or professional-services brands
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills, especially Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro and After Effects
• Strong PowerPoint design skills
• Proven experience building scalable template systems
• Solid understanding of digital and social media design
• Video editing and motion graphics capability
• Excellent typography, layout, visual storytelling and information design
• Able to work independently, respond quickly and juggle multiple requests and priorities
• Comfortable attending regular progress and creative reviews, maintaining a request and delivery tracker, and following agreed approval processes
• Committed to confidentiality and to handing over all editable source files at the end of the engagement

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid or fully remote working
• High-impact, highly visible project with real ownership of the visual system
• Close collaboration with a supportive Marketing & PR team
• A strong, varied body of work spanning brand, print, digital and motion for your portfolio