Graphic Designer (Freelance)

It’s an amazing time to join O'Neill as we are riding the wave of change. Rise to your potential and help us take our legacy into the future.

Graphic Designer (Freelance) 

O'Neill is looking for a versatile and hands-on Graphic Designer to join our Creative team on a freelance basis as of August for 3-6 months. In this role, you'll help bring seasonal campaigns and creative projects to life across multiple channels, working closely with the wider Marketing team. We're looking for a designer who can confidently take ownership of day-to-day design, asset creation, and campaign rollout, while also contributing to creative development and supporting art direction and production where needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, adapt, and roll out campaign assets across all digital and print channels
• Develop and maintain style guides and creative toolkits
• Support projects from design development through to final asset delivery
• Collaborate on campaigns, eComm, retail, and marketing materials

Creative Development & Art Direction Support

• Contribute to the creative development of seasonal campaigns and projects, from concepts and moodboards to sales meeting visuals and presentations
• Translate briefs into engaging visual assets across multiple channels, ensuring consistency with the O'Neill brand
• Support creative development and art direction across retail, eCommerce, and other marketing initiatives
• Adapt and execute global creative direction where required

Production & Post-Production Support

• Support the creative planning and preparation for shoots, including moodboards and pre-production presentations
• Provide creative feedback during post-production when required, including on grading, retouching, and video edits

Overall

• Ensure consistency of the O’Neill brand identity and visual language across all materials and channels.
• Manage multiple projects while maintaining high creative standards and meeting deadlines.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving and presentation skills in all aspects of creative work.
• Proactively seek opportunities for creative improvement, innovation, and efficiency.

Who are you?

• 5+ years of experience in graphic design or related creative roles, ideally within a fashion or sports/lifestyle brand
• Strong portfolio demonstrating graphic design, typography, visual storytelling and creative development skills.
• Strong understanding of creative production processes
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and experienced across both digital and print. Experience in moving image and video editing is a plus.
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to present work, share ideas, and provide constructive feedback throughout the creative process.
• Surf and/or snow experience is a plus
• Fluent in English (written and verbal); additional languages are a plus

Who will you work for?

O'Neill was founded in Northern California with one simple mission, to surf longer. Over seven decades later, that mission remains at the core of our brand, inseparable from the history of surf itself. Powered by ongoing innovation, we continue to reinvent the O'Neill wetsuit, the original wetsuit, a game-changing invention—and design functional and versatile surf- and snow-gear and lifestyle apparel that enables our customers to enjoy their playground longer. As a brand created to enjoy nature, we see it as our responsibility to actively preserve it and contribute to a cleaner, more sustainable world. Our Ocean Mission is how we stay close to Jack O'Neill's original words: "The ocean is alive, and we've got to take care of it".

Discover O’Neill

Want to learn more about who we are, our heritage and what drives us?
Visit our website to explore the story, values and community behind O'Neill.

What do we offer? 

• A challenging position in an international and dynamic environment.

• Short communication lines and a creative place to work.

Interested?

We look forward to receiving your application! If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out to hr@oneill.com- we will do our best to help!