Tok-Vibes · Now hiring
Most ad designers make it pretty.
We need it to stop the scroll and read in a second.
- Role
- Ad Designer
- Type
- Freelance, per batch
- Delivery
- Ready within 24h
- Hours
- US hours (or close)
- Pay
- $25 – $30 per batch
- Tools
- Figma, AE/CapCut, AI welcome
Who we are
We're a creative strategy studio making paid social ads for premium DTC brands in home, beauty and fashion. Our strategists find the reason to buy. You make it look like the brand's own design team made it, and readable on a phone before someone scrolls past.
Two lanes, and you know which one you're in
Hi-fi
Looks like the brand's in-house team made it. Their fonts, their logo at the right proportions, their colour guide, lots of space, one or two text elements. No drop shadows, no heavy outlines.
Lo-fi, on purpose
Looks like a real person posted it. Native TikTok and IG text, a trending font or an emoji where it fits. Authentic but tidied up. Never "cheap by accident".
- Statics and GIFs for our weekly batches. Each batch is one idea in 3 variations.
- Fast: a batch goes from brief to ready in 24 hours max, and revisions come back within a few hours.
- A finishing pass on text, pills, logos and proof lines across our edited videos.
- Brand template kits in Figma per client, so every batch stays on brand and fast.
- Check every ad at real phone size before it leaves your hands.
What you need on day one
- Experience designing ads for DTC brands. A portfolio of paid social ads, not logos or branding decks.
- Real typography skills: hierarchy, spacing, minimum sizes, how text reads on mobile.
- Figma for statics, and After Effects or CapCut for GIFs and light motion.
- You work inside a brand system without improvising: fonts, weights, logo rules, colour guides.
- Clear written English, and you're online during US hours (or close to it) so feedback doesn't wait overnight.
- AI is welcome. Use whatever tools make you faster, as long as the final ad looks designed by a person who cares.
Bonus
- You draw or illustrate by hand. Hand-drawn arrows, doodles and lettering make lo-fi ads feel real.
- You can edit video TikTok-style. Quick cuts, native text, trending sounds and formats.
Pay
$25 to $30 per batch
A batch is 3 ads, statics and GIFs. Paid per approved batch, depending on experience. We work across several brands, so there's steady volume every week, and more as we grow.
This isn't for you if
- Your portfolio is mostly logos, brand identities or social posts, not ads.
- You reach for a drop shadow to make text readable.
- You need a fully finished brief before you can make a call on layout.
- 24 hours from brief to ready sounds too tight, or "I'll get to the feedback tomorrow" sounds normal to you.
How to apply
Answer these questions in the form. We don't read applications that skip them.
- Link 3 to 5 paid social ads you designed, and say which ones you're proudest of and why.
- Send one ad you made that you'd redo today, and tell us what you'd change.
- What's the smallest text size you'd use on a 1080×1350 static, and why?
- Can you deliver a batch within 24 hours and revisions within a few hours, during US hours? Yes or no.
- Which tools do you use for statics and GIFs, and which AI tools are part of your process?
- Do you draw or illustrate by hand? If yes, show us.
- Can you edit TikTok-style video? If yes, link one you cut.
Shortlisted designers get one short test: redesign one ad in both lanes, hi-fi and lo-fi. It's unpaid and small on purpose. If it's good, you're hired straight away and your first batch is paid.
Apply for this role