Performance Marketing Graphic Designer

Performance Marketing Graphic Designer Location: [Remote / Hybrid / On-Site — San Diego]Type: [Full-Time / Contract]Team: CreativeReports to: Creative Manager About the Role We're a performance-driven creative team building paid social and direct-response content for fast-growing DTC and ecommerce brands. Our ads are measured against real numbers — and our static creative carries just as much of that load as our video. We're hiring a Performance Marketing Graphic Designer to own static ad creative across Meta, Google Display, and Native platforms. You'll design thumb-stopping statics, build out high-volume variations to test hooks and angles, and treat every ad as a conversion problem to solve — not just a layout to make pretty. The goal is simple: statics that win at the auction and scale. If you understand why one headline-and-image combination crushes while a more "designed" version flops — and you've got the data instinct to know the difference — this role is for you. And if you can code, you'll have room to build things most designers can't. What You'll Do - Design high-converting static ads for Meta (Facebook/Instagram), Google Display, and Native platforms — optimized for thumb-stop rate, CTR, and ROAS, not just visual polish. - Produce creative variations at volume — multiple hooks, headlines, layouts, and angles per concept so the media team always has fresh statics in rotation for testing. - Master the direct-response static formats that actually perform: native/editorial-style ads, advertorials, before/after, comparison charts, social proof and review layouts, infographic ads, and UGC-style statics. - Win the feed in the first glance with strong visual hierarchy, punchy headlines, and design that communicates the value prop instantly. - Use AI image tools (Midjourney, Firefly, DALL·E, Ideogram, or similar) to expand concepting speed and generate assets, backgrounds, and variations. - Work the data. Review creative performance (CTR, CVR, ROAS, thumb-stop rate) and iterate your designs based on what's actually converting. - Collaborate closely with media buyers, strategists, and copywriters on audience insights, product positioning, and funnel strategy. - Stay current on platform specs, ad formats, design trends, and ad-policy/compliance requirements across channels (including health-adjacent advertising standards where relevant). Coding / HTML — A Big Plus This isn't required, but it's a real differentiator and you'll get to use it: - Build HTML/CSS ad components, end cards, and interactive units. - Design and code advertorials, sales pages, and landing pages that match the ad creative and convert. - Create templated, dynamic systems so static variations can be produced at scale instead of one-by-one. - HTML email design and build. If you live in Figma and are comfortable in code, tell us — it moves you to the top of the stack. What Success Looks Like - First 30 days: You're shipping clean, on-brief static ads with fast turnaround and learning our brands, accounts, and creative testing process. - First 90 days: You're independently producing testable static variations across formats and proposing hooks and angles based on what the data is telling us. - Ongoing: Your statics consistently produce winners that scale — and you can point to the metrics that prove it. What You Bring - 2–4 years designing static creative for paid social and performance marketing (agency or in-house DTC/ecommerce experience strongly preferred). - Expert command of Figma and the Adobe suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), plus hands-on experience with AI image generation tools. - A real understanding of direct-response advertising — hooks, angles, offer structure, visual hierarchy, and the psychology of what makes someone stop scrolling and click. - Channel fluency: you've designed specifically for Meta Ads Manager, Google Display, and Native networks, and you understand the spec and behavior differences between them. - Speed without sloppiness — you thrive on quick turnarounds, high output, and iterative testing cycles. - A portfolio of high-performing static ad creative, ideally with the campaign results or metrics to back it up. Bonus Points - HTML/CSS and front-end coding ability (see above — this is the big one). - Familiarity with advertorial, sales page, and landing page design. - Light motion or animated static (GIF/HTML) experience. - Knowledge of A/B testing frameworks and creative optimization cycles. - A track record collaborating directly with media buyers, performance marketers, and copywriters. Originally posted on Himalayas