Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role:

The Social-First Designer will develop visually compelling content designed specifically for social platforms, helping bring Elastic’s brand and content to life in fast paced, highly engaging formats. This role will partner closely with the social, developer community team, and other creative members to translate content into clear, platform-native creative that resonates with its audiences.

Success in this role requires strong design instincts, an understanding of how content performs across social platforms, and the ability to move quickly while maintaining high design standards across the Elastic brand ecosystem.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Create social-first visual content across platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, X, and emerging channels, producing assets including social graphics, thumbnails, light motion elements.
• Translate marketing, developer, and product concepts into engaging visual content that supports launches, tech blogs, and ongoing storytelling.
• Partner closely with the social media team, DevRel, marketing partners, and creative teams to develop creative aligned with brand standards.
• Adapt and extend Elastic’s design system for social environments, ensuring content remains visually consistent while optimized for speed, clarity, and platform behavior.
• Produce and iterate quickly on social assets to support real-time content, ongoing campaigns, and timely announcements.
• Monitor social design trends and emerging formats to help evolve Elastic’s visual presence across social platforms.

What You Bring:

• Experience creating social-first design work in an in-house creative team, marketing organization, or agency environment, with a portfolio demonstrating strong social and digital content.
• A strong portfolio showcasing illustration, campaigns, and digital work that balances creativity with clarity and purpose.
• Strong illustration skills and the ability to translate conceptual ideas into scalable, on-brand visual assets.
• A strong sense of visual storytelling and an understanding of how design performs across different social platforms.
• Experience designing across a variety of formats including static graphics, light motion visuals, thumbnails, and blog images.
• Ability to translate complex technical topics into accessible and visually engaging content that resonates with developer and technical audiences.
• Strong collaboration skills and comfort working closely with social teams, marketers, and content creators in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in modern design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and motion or video tools commonly used for social content.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining quality and brand consistency.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with animation/video production process. Working with writers to develop storyboards.
• After Effects: You enjoy bringing stories to life with animation. Maybe just fun, animated gifs. It’s all good.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster

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Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$89,100—$140,900 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:

$106,800—$168,900 USD