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Social posts, carousels and short motion, made on brand.

Also called: Social Media Graphic Designer, Social Media Designer, Carousel Designer

From £4.50 an hour£4.50-20.50/hr

  • Media & creators
  • Coaches & info products
  • YouTube
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Social Media Content Designer gets doneSample day
  • Turns content-calendar entries, scripts and copy into design briefsPlanning & intake
  • Designs multi-slide carousels and LinkedIn PDF documentsStatic design production
  • Animates static posts with simple motionMotion
  • Builds brand template systems in Canva and FigmaTemplate systemsDoing
In your tools
  • Canva Pro / Canva Teams
  • Figma
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Premiere Pro

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 Social Media Content 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 weekly social design output for a brand with light review and builds the templates others use.

  • Weekly content packs of 20-40 assets
  • Original carousels and LinkedIn documents
  • YouTube thumbnail variants

2-4 years designing for live brand or creator accounts.

How the Intermediate level works

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

What you hand to your Social Media Content Designer

Tasks

  • Planning & intake

    • Turns content-calendar entries, scripts and copy into design briefs
    • Tracks trending formats on each platform

  • Static design production

    • Designs multi-slide carousels and LinkedIn PDF documents
    • Creates Instagram feed posts, Stories and TikTok/Reels covers
    • Designs YouTube thumbnails with 2-3 variants for testing
    • Produces quote cards, testimonial graphics, announcements, event promos

  • Motion

    • Animates static posts with simple motion
    • Exports video to platform specs with captions burned in where required

  • Template systems

    • Builds brand template systems in Canva and Figma
    • Maintains the Canva Brand Kit

  • Adaptation & publishing prep

    • Resizes and adapts content across 1:1, 4:5, 9:16 and 16:9
    • Writes alt text and loads approved assets into the scheduler as drafts

  • Performance iteration

    • Reviews saves, shares, reach and thumbnail CTR
    • Keeps a test log of thumbnail and carousel variants and their results

Tested before you meet them

  1. On-image copy & brief writingAll levels20 min
  2. Canva & Figma template tool testAll levels45 min
  3. Volume production speed testAll levels60 min
  4. Social content work sampleAll levels3 hrs
  5. Live-account portfolio reviewAll levels30 min
  6. Last-minute change role-playExpert and Specialist20 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

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  • Three phone screens showing Eros social posts of cans and bold stripes.
  • Two-part social tile: a pink soda can among green guavas above, a striped towel and open book on grass below.
  • A pale blue tile with a navy oval and the words Yummy starts today.
  • A deep green tile with the words Energy in every move.
  • Two-part social tile: a yellow soda can among lemons above, a laptop on someone’s lap below.
  • A white tile with the line One scoop, pure happiness in bold navy type.
  • The Cloudo wordmark types in on navy, then the cloud mark appears beside it.
  • Two-part social tile: a yellow soda can among lemons above, a swimmer sitting by the sea below.
  • Tubs of ice cream in a freezer with a Mellie badge and the words New exclusive flavours.
  • Silver Eros cans clustered against black.
  • A pink bath bomb ringed with a circle of words such as luxurious, organic and natural, on bright blue.
  • Two-part video: a yellow can among lemons above, rippling pool water below.
  • Eros cardboard multipack cartons stacked at angles on black.
  • The Oasis wordmark in white on bright blue.
  • Two-part social tile: a pink soda can among green guavas above, a player’s shadow on a green court below.
  • The Cointo wordmark with its green arrow mark on black.

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 Social Media Content 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.

Planning & intake, static design production, motion and template systems, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including on-image copy & brief writing, canva & Figma template tool test and volume production 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 Social Media Content 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 Social Media Content 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 Social Media Content Designer owns weekly social design output for a brand with light review and builds the templates others use. An Expert Social Media Content Designer owns the creative performance of social design across several channels or brands. 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 Social Media Content Designer is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Canva Pro / Canva Teams and Figma, before you meet them.

In week one: access set up: the client's Canva Team with Brand Kit; scheduler access with draft or contributor rights; and content calendar shared, with the weekly intake day. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Social Media Graphic Designer, Social Media Designer and Carousel 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.

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