YouTube Thumbnail Designer (High-CTR Specialist)

⚠️ If you care about creative freedom, strategy, meaningful work, and being part of a team where your ideas actually matter… this is the role for you. ⚠️ This is a specialist role. We are not looking for a generalist who "also does thumbnails." We want someone who lives and breathes click-through rate. We are a social media agency that grows founders, creators, and high-ticket coaches through long-form YouTube content. The thumbnail is the single highest-leverage asset on a video, and we are hiring a dedicated thumbnail designer to own it. You will design thumbnails for our founder and client channels. WHAT YOU WILL OWN - High-CTR YouTube thumbnails that win the click without clickbait that burns trust - Concepts and A/B variations (we test) - Consistency with each channel's brand while still standing out in the feed WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERS - CTR psychology: facial expression, contrast, focal point, curiosity gap - Clean compositing and retouching (Photoshop mastery) - Studying what is working on YouTube right now and applying it - Speed and reliability, because videos ship on a schedule Think MrBeast-level obsession with the click, applied to business and education content. We care about the thumbnail that beats the last one, not the one that just looks nice. YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO - Has a portfolio of thumbnails, or can show before/after CTR wins - Iterates fast and takes direction - Communicates clearly in English WHY WORK WITH US - This is the highest-visibility design role on the team - Contract-to-hire: starts part-time, can grow into more hours or full-time - Your work directly moves the numbers we all care about HOW TO APPLY 1. Put "FIRST STRIKE" at the top of your application so we know you read this. 2. Link 3 to 5 of your best YouTube thumbnails (and any CTR data if you have it). 3. Tell us one channel whose thumbnails you admire and why.