Bring Vanguard's story to life through bold, social-first creative. We're looking for a creative professional who can blend art direction, branding, design, and motion to shape compelling content that reaches millions across social platforms. If you're passionate about turning complex business messages into engaging social experiences, we'd love to hear from you.
Core Responsibilities
Collaborates across teams to understand business objectives, audience needs, and content opportunities. Develops and presents social-first creative concepts and campaign ideas that support communications and marketing goals.
Creates and pitches innovative creative concepts, articulating strategic rationale and relevance to stakeholders, business partners, and leadership.
Provides art direction and creative guidance throughout the content development process, ensuring high-quality execution across static, motion, and emerging social formats.
Demonstrates versatility across both static and motion design for social content.
Operates comfortably within a strict regulatory and compliance environment while creating engaging and attention-grabbing work.
Maintains brand standards and visual consistency across social channels while identifying opportunities to evolve creative approaches within established guidelines.
Collaborates with designers, copywriters, strategists, video producers, and external partners to deliver integrated campaigns and content experiences.
Engages with business units and leaders to understand communication objectives, provide creative recommendations, and ensure final deliverables meet stakeholder expectations.
Stays current on social media trends, platform innovations, and creative best practices, proactively bringing new ideas and formats to the team.
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
• Five years of related experience in social media, art direction, advertising, creative marketing, or digital content development.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating social-first campaign concepting, art direction, static design, and motion design across multiple platforms.
• Proven experience developing and pitching creative concepts to stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of social media platforms, audience behavior, content formats, and emerging trends.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Degree in Advertising, Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Fine Arts, or related field preferred.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Skills Required
- Five years of related experience in social media, art direction, advertising, creative marketing, or digital content development
- Strong portfolio demonstrating social-first campaign concepting, art direction, static design, and motion design across multiple platforms
- Proven experience developing and pitching creative concepts to stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Strong understanding of social media platforms, audience behavior, content formats, and emerging trends
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience (degree in Advertising, Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Fine Arts, or related field preferred)
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
