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Hire a Graphic Designer

Hire a graphic designer without paying $70K+ a year. Get pre-vetted, AI-fluent graphic designers starting at $2.5K per month. We handle sourcing, vetting, payroll, and compliance so you can ship campaign assets on schedule, keep your brand consistent across every channel, and stop queuing behind freelancers without the overhead of a traditional hire.

Graphic Designer ยท At a Glance
Starting pricefrom $2.5K/mo
Typical local cost$5.5Kโ€“$7.5K/mo
Overhead reductionup to 70%
Embedded within30 days
Experience level3โ€“7+ years
โœ“ Skills-tested for the role โœ“ AI-fluency assessed โœ“ Remote Readiness Score

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A Better Way to Hire a Graphic Designer

When you hire a graphic designer the traditional way, you spend two or three months reviewing portfolios that all look impressive, then find out in week one whether the work was really theirs or the product of heavy art direction. While you search, campaigns wait, decks get patched together in-house, and every asset request joins a queue. Our model closes that gap. We maintain a bench of tested designers, so you review a shortlist of proven candidates in days instead of building a pipeline from scratch.

We handle the parts that slow you down: structured skills-based testing on real design briefs, real-world scenario evaluation like turning a rough campaign concept into finished assets on deadline, and hands-on AI fluency assessment covering tools like Midjourney and Adobe Firefly. When you hire a graphic designer through us, they are embedded in your brand guidelines, file structure, and feedback workflows within 30 days, with no employment admin on your side.

What does a Graphic Designer do?

A graphic designer turns your marketing plans into finished visual assets, from ad creative to sales decks. A good one gives you back the hours your team currently loses to DIY design and endless revision rounds.

  • Produce ad creative variations for paid social and display, sized and exported correctly for every placement and platform spec
  • Build and maintain a template library in Figma or Adobe CC so decks, one-pagers, and social posts stay on-brand without starting from zero
  • Turn blog posts, webinars, and reports into infographics, carousels, and visual summaries your team can publish the same week
  • Manage revision rounds and file versioning so stakeholder feedback gets resolved in one pass instead of five email threads

When is it time to Hire a Graphic Designer?

Most teams decide to hire a graphic designer after months of making do. The trigger moment usually looks like one of these.

Campaign launches keep slipping because ad creative and landing page assets are stuck in a design queue

Your marketers are building their own graphics in Canva, and the inconsistency shows across channels

Freelancer turnaround runs one to two weeks per request, and small revisions take days more

Your brand looks different on the website, the sales deck, and social because nobody owns visual consistency

Ready to Hire a Graphic Designer? Stop waiting on design. Ship every campaign with finished assets.

Hire a Graphic Designer

When we say the best, we mean it

We only work with the top 5% of candidates when companies hire graphic designer through us. Every candidate is skills-tested on the exact work this role does, assessed for AI fluency on real tasks, and scored with our proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful remote hires โ€” before they reach your team.

Turns a vague one-line brief into a strong first draft instead of waiting for detailed direction

Builds reusable templates and component systems rather than one-off files that die in a folder

Knows platform specs cold, so assets arrive sized, safe-zoned, and export-ready for every channel

Uses AI tools to move faster on drafts and variations while keeping typography and layout craft high

Tested to get in. Trained to stay ahead.

Testing

Three tests, then a human interview

1
Role skills150+ assessments, built for the exact role they'll do for you
2
Remote readinessOur proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful hires
3
AI fluencyReal tasks with a live LLM โ€” prompting, workflows, judgment
4
Interviewed by a real humanTop scorers meet one of our recruiters before you ever see them
Only the top 5% get in See the tests โ†’
NEVER STOPS
Training

Then they keep getting better

Your hirealways in training
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How We Find You Amazing Talent in 30 Days

01

You Specify a Role

You share job description, core requirements & key skills we should screen for.

02

We Source Talent

We run skills-based testing and manual screening, then deliver 3-5 candidates.

03

We Confirm Alignment

We confirm each candidate is interested in your role & aligned with your company.

04

You Interview & Select

You interview each candidate and, if needed, run a 1-2 hour test project.

05

We Handle Onboarding

We handle identity verification, NDA, compliant contracts & full payroll setup.

06

Your Hire Starts Working

Talent is embedded into your team and works like any other team member.

How much does it cost to Hire a Graphic Designer?

Hiring a graphic designer locally typically costs $5,500 to $7,500 per month once you factor in salary, benefits, and overhead. With our model, you can reduce that cost by up to 70% while still getting a full-time graphic designer working directly inside your brand system, design files, and campaign calendar.

Hiring locally
$5.5Kโ€“$7.5K/mo
Salary, benefits, and overhead factored in
Through us
from $2.5K/mo
Employment, contracts, and HR administration handled entirely on our side

We take on the employment side: contracts, payroll, HR admin, and compliance. You get consistent design capacity that compounds, because when you hire a graphic designer who stays with your brand month after month, every asset gets faster and more consistent than the last.

Common Questions

How quickly can a graphic designer start?
Most placements are fully embedded within 30 days. That covers shortlisting, interviews, a skills test on a live design brief, and onboarding into your brand guidelines and tools.
How experienced are the designers?
Typically 3โ€“7+ years across brand, digital, and marketing design. Most have worked with US and European companies and are comfortable owning work end to end, from brief to final export.
How do you screen design candidates?
Beyond portfolio review, every candidate completes a timed design task based on a realistic brief, plus an AI fluency assessment and interviews focused on process, feedback handling, and communication.
Can they work in my time zone?
Yes. When you hire a graphic designer through us, we match candidates to your working hours so standups, feedback rounds, and launch days happen in real time with your team.
What tools do they know?
Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Canva are standard. Many add After Effects for motion work, plus AI tools like Midjourney and Adobe Firefly for concepting and rapid variations.
How is this different from hiring a freelancer?
A freelancer juggles clients and bills by the project. Your designer works full time on your brand alone, learns your products deeply, and is available every day, while we handle the employment side.
Can they handle both brand and performance creative?
Yes. We match based on your priorities, and most designers on our bench move between brand systems, sales collateral, and high-volume ad creative testing within the same week.

Hire a Graphic Designer today

Great design does not require a local salary. Hire a graphic designer who is tested, brand-obsessed, and working inside your files within weeks, with full-time attention your freelancers were never able to give.

Hire a Graphic Designer