Marketing Designer, Performance Creative (Contractor)

Team: Marketing

Location: US

Commitment: Contract

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Translate the brand’s creative identity into compelling paid social assets across platforms including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and other paid channels.
• Own the end-to-end performance creative pipeline, including concept development, design, motion production, iteration, and optimization.
• Build and maintain a creative roadmap that prioritizes new concepts, testing opportunities, creative iterations, and areas for further development.
• Partner closely with performance marketing teams to incorporate campaign data, audience insights, channel feedback, and performance results into creative decisions.
• Develop engaging hooks, formats, visual treatments, animations, and concepts designed to capture attention and drive meaningful user action.
• Use AI-assisted creative tools to expand production capabilities while establishing practical workflows and guardrails that maintain brand consistency and quality.
• Develop scalable production processes and creative workflows that increase output without compromising visual standards.
• Help shape the first impression potential users have of the product by creating distinctive, engaging content that attracts and inspires new audiences.
• Contribute to the evolution of performance creative strategy and, as the team grows, potentially mentor or manage other creative contributors.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of experience in performance creative, paid social design, growth-focused creative, or a related role within consumer technology, direct-to-consumer, or growth-stage environments.
• Strong hybrid design capabilities, combining excellent static graphic design fundamentals with demonstrated motion design and animation skills.
• A portfolio showcasing paid social creative across both static and motion formats, with clear evidence of strong visual craft and performance-oriented thinking.
• Expert-level proficiency with Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and After Effects.
• Strong understanding of paid social creative principles, including hooks, platform-specific formats, creative conventions, testing, iteration, and performance optimization.
• Ability to quickly understand and extend an established visual identity into new creative formats while preserving brand recognition and consistency.
• Strong creative judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to balance experimentation with high-quality execution.
• Comfortable working collaboratively with performance marketing and other cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience using generative AI tools for image, video, copy, or other creative production workflows is a strong advantage.
• Background in music, entertainment, creator-focused products, or consumer media is a plus.
• Experience mentoring or managing junior creative professionals is a plus.

Benefits

• Contract opportunity with a flexible workload of 20–40 hours per week.
• Competitive compensation of $75–$90 per hour.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact performance creative for a rapidly growing consumer entertainment product.
• Significant creative ownership across concepting, production, experimentation, and optimization.
• Exposure to emerging AI-assisted creative workflows and opportunities to help establish scalable production practices.
• Remote work environment with the opportunity to collaborate with a highly ambitious, creative, and fast-moving team.
• Potential pathway to greater leadership responsibility, including managing or mentoring creative contributors as the team expands.
• Inclusive, equal-opportunity environment committed to considering qualified applicants fairly and without discrimination.