At Thirst Creative, we don’t just build websites, we bring bold digital ideas to life. We’re a full service creative agency based in Carlton, blending strategy, design, and technology to deliver meaningful digital experiences. Our process? Collaboration, curiosity, and making things better together.
We’re looking for someone who has combined experience as a UI/UX Designer with a technical skillset and is passionate about delivering high-quality, user focused digital experiences. You are a hybrid talent who can craft exceptional digital designs in Figma and seamlessly translate those concepts into functional, highly interactive web projects using Webflow. You champion best-practice UX, usability, and accessibility (WCAG AA), and take pride in maintaining a strong visual aesthetic across all your digital outputs. You’ll be proactive, adaptable, and love collaborating with producers, designers, and the wider agency team to achieve great commercial outcomes.
Our Values:
At Thirst Creative, we believe in more than just delivering great work — we live by our values, which guide how we operate, how we work with clients, and how we grow as a team. These values are deeply embedded in everything we do:
Critical Thinker
Be curious: Seek understanding through active listening and thoughtful questioning.
Be creative: Challenge conventions with courage and originality.
Communicate clearly: Communicate with purpose, simplicity and clarity.
Can-do Attitude
Be accountable: Take charge and see tasks through with full accountability.
Find solutions: Be resourceful and adaptable, no matter the challenge.
Be reliable: Deliver on time, every time, with quality you can trust.
No Ego
Be approachable: Create a welcoming space for ideas and input.
Support each other: Share knowledge to help everyone excel.
Back yourself: Trust your instincts and present your creative solutions with confidence.
Cultural Champ
Look after the people: Connect, inspire, volunteer.
Celebrate together: Recognise achievements, give kudos, and celebrate as a team.
Positive vibes: Have a laugh, smile, bring joy.
If you worked at Thirst Creative last week, you would have…
Jumped into Figma to design a high-fidelity, highly accessible user interface for a new client project, ensuring every element complied with WCAG AA standards. You would have then switched gears to build out a pixel-perfect, responsive website in Webflow, structuring a dynamic CMS collection so the client can easily manage their own content. You’d have sat in on a project kick-off meeting to provide technical insights, scoped out a web development quote for the Head of Digital, and shared a cool new AI design process you discovered with the rest of the team. You may have even volunteered to host our monthly MYO lunch, putting on a feast for the team to enjoy!
About you
You are a rare hybrid talent just as comfortable mapping out a seamless, accessible user journey in Figma as you are diving into Webflow to bring it to life. You’re curious by nature, always asking the “why” before figuring out the “how,” and you thrive on turning complex problems into elegant, pixel-perfect digital experiences.
You leave your ego at the door, preferring to collaborate closely with producers, designers, and the wider agency team to achieve the best commercial outcomes for our clients. With a keen eye for visual aesthetics and a deep commitment to best-practice UX, you take immense pride in the quality of your output.
Beyond your technical skills, you are proactive, highly organised, and comfortable working autonomously to meet project deadlines. You aren’t afraid to back your own creative instincts and confidently present your ideas. Most importantly, you bring positive vibes, a resourceful “can-do” attitude, and a hunger to continually upskill and explore new design tools and AI processes.
What you’ll do
- Design and develop responsive websites and digital experiences for web and mobile, balancing user needs, accessibility, performance, and business goals
- Create intuitive UI/UX solutions with a strong focus on usability, accessibility, and WCAG AA compliance best practices
- Build custom websites and integrations, including API connections, while maintaining a mobile-first and open-source approach to development
- Collaborate closely with design, marketing, and production teams to deliver seamless digital projects from concept through to launch
- Maintain and optimise websites, servers, web environments, DNS/domain management, site security, performance, and ongoing updates
- Contribute to improving coding standards, development workflows, and internal digital processes across the agency
- Participate in DevOps and deployment workflows, including continuous integration, testing, and release management
- Communicate confidently with clients and internal stakeholders
- Assist with project scoping and technical recommendations
- Identify opportunities to extend client support across digital strategy, design, marketing, content, and web maintenance services
Key selection criteria
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in best practices in UI, UX, Usability and Accessibility Standards
- Strong design thinking, practices and execution
- Accurately represent design concepts in code, maintaining consistency and quality
- Experience with Webflow or similar
- Familiarity with CMS platforms like WordPress and Craft CMS; Shopify, Sanity, or Webflow is a plus
- At least 3-5 years of experience in an Australian agency setting
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Web Development/ Design or similar experience
Why Thirst Creative?
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A Team That Cares: At Thirst Creative, every voice is valued, from the intern to the director. We collaborate closely to create work that’s bigger than the sum of its parts.
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Innovation at Its Core: We never stop learning, exploring, or pushing boundaries. You’ll be at the forefront of our growth, championing new ideas and cutting-edge solutions
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Work-Life Balance: We offer a hybrid work environment and believe that finishing time really means it’s time to clock off and spend with family and friends
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A Culture of Growth: We believe in continuous learning and development, both for our clients and our team. You’ll be empowered to reach your full potential
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A Certified Great Place to Work: We’re proud to be certified as a great place to work for five years in a row, plus recognised as the 6th best workplace in 2024!
Application Process
We embrace inclusivity and diversity in our hiring process, constantly seeking to build a team that encompasses a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, skills, and perspectives. We’re committed to employing and supporting staff members regardless of their race, gender, identity, religion, nationality, disability, or age.
If this opportunity aligns with your career aspirations, values and you meet the criteria above, we’d love to hear from you. Please submit your resume with a cover letter attached detailing your relevant experience and why you’re the perfect fit for our team.
Applicants must be based in Melbourne, must have working rights and meet the skills and experience outlined above.
Only successful applicants will be contacted. No recruiters please.
