About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an AI Graphic Designer - Performance Ads based in Portugal.
Responsibilities
- Create high-converting static advertising creatives for Meta and other paid social platforms.
- Translate creative briefs into multiple visual directions, concepts, hooks, and ad variations.
- Produce a consistent, high volume of polished and test-ready creatives each week.
- Use AI image-generation tools to accelerate production and expand creative experimentation.
- Refine AI-generated imagery through strong typography, composition, retouching, image editing, and layout design.
- Adapt successful concepts into new formats, audiences, visual treatments, and messaging angles.
- Collaborate closely with the Senior Creative Strategist and performance marketing team to execute creative concepts effectively.
- Iterate and improve creatives based on campaign performance, testing results, and stakeholder feedback.
- Maintain an efficient, organized, and repeatable creative production workflow.
- Take ownership of static-ad production and become a reliable source of high-quality creative output with minimal day-to-day oversight.
Requirements
- Proven experience creating static paid-social advertisements, ideally for DTC, e-commerce, or consumer brands.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating actual advertising and performance creatives rather than primarily branding, websites, or organic social content.
- Experience producing multiple creative variations efficiently and consistently in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong understanding of direct-response advertising and performance creative principles, including the importance of hooks, visual hierarchy, messaging, and scroll-stopping design.
- Advanced hands-on skills with Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, or comparable professional design tools.
- Practical commercial experience using AI image-generation tools as part of a creative production workflow.
- Excellent visual judgment across typography, composition, hierarchy, product presentation, image editing, and overall creative execution.
- Ability to accurately interpret creative briefs while making strong independent design decisions during execution.
- Comfortable working in an environment where new creatives are produced, tested, and iterated continuously.
- Experience with AI tools such as Higgsfield, Midjourney, FLUX, Nano Banana/Gemini, Firefly, Krea, or similar platforms is a strong advantage.
- Experience creating advertising for beauty, health, supplements, wellness, apparel, or other DTC consumer categories is a plus.
- Familiarity with paid-media performance metrics such as CTR, CPA, and ROAS, and an understanding of how creative performance can inform iteration, is highly valued.
- Experience working with brands operating at significant paid-media scale is an additional advantage.
Conditions
- Full-time position with a remote-first setup across Europe.
- Opportunity to work at the intersection of professional graphic design, AI image generation, and performance marketing.
- High-volume creative environment with continuous opportunities to experiment and test new visual concepts.
- Opportunity to work closely with creative strategy and performance marketing professionals.
- Hands-on exposure to modern AI-powered creative production workflows and tools.
- Significant ownership over the static-ad production process.
- Opportunity to directly influence advertising performance through creative experimentation and iteration.
- Fast-paced environment suited to designers who enjoy producing and refining work at speed.
- Opportunity to develop expertise in performance creative for DTC and e-commerce brands.