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Hire a Performance Ad Creative Designer.

Ad creative made, tested and refreshed.

Also called: Ad Creative Designer, Static Ad Designer, Paid Social Creative Designer

From £4.50 an hour£4.50-20.50/hr

  • E-commerce
  • SaaS & tech
  • Amazon
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Performance Ad Creative Designer gets doneSample day
  • Reviews account performance with the media buyerInsight & ideation
  • Designs Meta and TikTok statics in 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16 using proven formatsCreative production
  • Builds variant matrices that isolate one variable per testTesting & iteration
  • Checks creative against platform policies before hand-offCompliance & deliveryDoing
In your tools
  • Figma
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Canva
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Google Web Designer

Pick the level. See the price.

£8an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Performance Ad Creative Designer£8/hr
At least 50% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns the weekly static creative pipeline for an account with light review.

  • Weekly net-new concept batches
  • Iteration packs
  • Display banner sets

2-4 years of design, with at least 1 year producing paid social or e-commerce creative.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Performance Ad Creative Designer

Tasks

  • Insight & ideation

    • Reviews account performance with the media buyer
    • Breaks winning ads down into angle, hook, format, visual and offer
    • Researches competitor and category ads

  • Creative production

    • Designs Meta and TikTok statics in 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16 using proven formats
    • Produces display banner sets in standard IAB sizes as static images
    • Creates Amazon and marketplace creative

  • Testing & iteration

    • Builds variant matrices that isolate one variable per test
    • Refreshes fatiguing winners with new iterations

  • Compliance & delivery

    • Checks creative against platform policies before hand-off
    • Exports to spec, uploads or hands off with correct naming

  • Audits & reporting

    • Runs monthly creative audits
    • Writes short test readouts after each batch

Tested before you meet them

  1. Hooks & creative rationaleAll levels25 min
  2. Figma multi-size build tool testAll levels45 min
  3. Variant matrix speed testAll levels60 min
  4. Net-new concept work sampleAll levels3 hrs
  5. Ad account creative auditExpert and Specialist1.5 hrs
  6. Performance portfolio reviewAll levels30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

87%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

Work by our Studio makers

See all the work
  • An Eros energy drink advert on a screen in a train station.
  • A billboard with a large red wordmark and a star mark against a blue sky.
  • A Mellie billboard on a building with a scoop on a cone and a line about happiness.
  • A tall Earthpure Systems poster with a rainbow across it and a line about preserving the beauty of nature.
  • Two-part social tile: a pink soda can among green guavas above, a player’s shadow on a green court below.
  • An Eros poster lit on a platform as a train blurs past.
  • A white tile with the line One scoop, pure happiness in bold navy type.
  • A person holds a red poster with bold black lettering in front of their face, under a blue sky with a plane overhead.
  • A pink bath bomb ringed with a circle of words such as luxurious, organic and natural, on bright blue.
  • A deep green tile with the words Energy in every move.
  • Dark Earthpure posters in a hall with a rainbow of light crossing them.
  • Fingers holding a yellow gummy above an open jar, with small product notes.
  • A Mellie street-side advert panel with a scoop of ice cream and the line Slow cream, deep flavour.
  • Three phone screens showing Eros social posts of cans and bold stripes.
  • A bus shelter with two Cloudo adverts showing a smiling cloud mascot.
  • A sky-blue NobleForma page with N and F corner marks above a strip of building drawings and photos.

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Performance Ad Creative Designer is £4.50 an hour, Intermediate £8, Expert £12.50 and Specialist £20.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Insight & ideation, creative production, testing & iteration and compliance & delivery, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including hooks & creative rationale, figma multi-size build tool test and variant matrix speed test. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Performance Ad Creative Designer works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Performance Ad Creative Designer works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Performance Ad Creative Designer owns the weekly static creative pipeline for an account with light review. An Expert Performance Ad Creative Designer owns creative performance outcomes: runs creative audits and designs test roadmaps. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Performance Ad Creative Designer is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Figma and Adobe Photoshop, before you meet them.

In week one: read-only or analyst access to Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager and Google Ads; access to the creative analytics tool and Foreplay swipe boards; and brand kit, product photo library, customer review bank. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Ad Creative Designer, Static Ad Designer and Paid Social Creative Designer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

A 15‑minute call on Teams. You leave knowing the level you need and its hourly price.

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