Part-time designer focused on producing consistent, high-performing YouTube thumbnails for a business/AI/entrepreneurship channel, combining faithful execution of provided briefs with strategic repackaging work to improve click-through rates.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce approximately 9 thumbnails weekly based on detailed concepts, references, text, colors, and direction supplied via Miro board and Loom walkthroughs.
- Execute provided briefs exactly, matching specified layout, typography, colors, and placement.
- Create new thumbnails for existing videos by ideating and executing designs intended to outperform current CTR.
- Deliver fast first-draft turnarounds while maintaining reliable, fully async written communication.
- Maintain strict quality standards including accurate representation of individuals without distortion.
Qualifications
- Strong portfolio of thumbnail work in business, finance, AI, or info-education niches.
- Elite attention to detail and ability to follow detailed briefs precisely.
- Expert proficiency in Photoshop and competent use of AI tools for backgrounds and elements.
- Reliable async communication with consistent deadline adherence and clear written updates.
- Strategic understanding of CTR drivers such as contrast, focal points, curiosity, and small-size legibility.
- Ability to sustain weekly volume of ~9 thumbnails across two fixed days.
- Spoken English fluency.
Benefits And Growth
- Fixed monthly rate for two set days per week, independent of per-thumbnail billing.
- Defined progression path from execution-focused work to thumbnail/packaging strategist role with increased ownership, volume, and compensation.
- Creative ownership on repackaging tasks, with performance measured by real CTR results.
- Clear briefs and established brand guidelines within a structured system.