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⭐️ 100s of happy clients 💎 7+ years of experience in performance-focused design and paid social creatives I create high-converting ad creatives, e-commerce assets, and complete campaigns for e-commerce and luxury and lifestyle DTC brands. Whether you supply product photography, copy, and brand assets or need fully AI-generated campaign imagery. I create premium creative tailored to your goals. I produce commercial-quality visuals designed to stop the scroll, strengthen your brand, and drive conversions. What I can help with: ✔️ Meta Ads & Paid Social Campaigns ✔️ E-commerce & Shopify Creative Assets ✔️ Social Media Campaigns & Content Systems ✔️ Landing Pages & Website Banners ✔️ PDP Design & Amazon A+ Content ✔️ Klaviyo Email Campaigns ✔️ Instagram grids ✔️ Campaign Concepts, Creative Rollout & Performance Testing ✔️ AI Editorial Photoshoots & Campaign Imagery ✔️ Product Visualization & Product Compositing ✔️ AI Lifestyle Imagery & Virtual Models ✔️ UGC-Style Creative (Static, Video & AI-Generated) ✔️ Product Videos, Lifestyle Videos & Short-Form Social Content ✔️ AI-Generated Video & Motion Creative ✔️ Reels, Stories & Carousel Design ✔️ Packaging & Branded Marketing Assets ✔️ Google Display Advertising 📐 Formats: 1×1, 4×5, 9×16, 1080×1080, 1080×1920, 1080x1350, 1200×628, 300×250, 728×90 Industries I’ve worked with: E-commerce • Beauty • Skincare • Wellness • Fashion • Home • Lifestyle • Food & Beverage • Consumer Products • E-commerce • DTC What clients can expect: ✔️ Strategic, conversion-focused creative ✔️ Fast communication and reliable delivery ✔️ Cohesive campaigns across ads, email, and web ✔️ Premium visuals tailored to modern DTC brands ✔️ Creative optimized for both branding and performance Tools I use: Photoshop • Illustrator • Figma • After Effects • InDesign • Canva • Midjourney • Freepik AI • Leonardo • Krea • Runway • CapCut How I work: Every project starts with research and inspiration. I begin by gathering references, moodboards, and creative directions based on your brand, competitors, and campaign goals. We then meet to discuss the concepts, align on the creative direction, and refine the approach before production begins. Whether you need a single advert, ongoing creative support, or a complete campaign rollout, I can work with your existing photography, copy, and brand assets - or create entirely new AI-powered campaign imagery when needed. Every asset is designed to feel cohesive, premium, and ready to launch across Meta, Google, Shopify, email, social media, and your website. I believe the best creative comes from collaboration, clear communication, and continuous refinement. Throughout the project, I share concepts early, welcome feedback, and iterate until the creative aligns with both your brand and your business goals. Fixed-price projects and long-term creative partnerships are both welcome. If you’re looking for creatives that not only look polished but also deliver results, feel free to reach out.

Top-rated Plus freelancer with 100% Job Success, helping founders, experts, and organizations clarify how their ideas, expertise, and offerings are positioned, communicated, and understood in the market. My Value I don’t just create content, I bring strategic clarity to complex thinking. My work sits at the intersection of: • Brand and positioning strategy • Strategic communication • Knowledge architecture Many businesses don’t have a capability problem; they have a positioning and communication problem. They are: • difficult to explain • undervalued by their audience • competing on the wrong dimensions • not translating their expertise into perceived value That’s where I come in. I specialize in identifying gaps between: • what a business is • how it communicates • how it is perceived and closing that gap through clear positioning, structured messaging, and high-impact communication. What I Help Clients Do Clients work with me when they need to: • Define or refine positioning and value propositions • Turn scattered ideas into a clear strategic direction • Develop messaging and narrative systems that actually land • Build thought leadership, books, and intellectual property • Translate complex offerings into clear, credible, and usable communication How I Work With 15+ years across publishing, education, marketing & sales, business development, and executive communication, I operate at both: • Strategy level — clarifying what needs to be said, how it should be positioned, and why • Execution level — translating that thinking into structured, high-quality outputs My approach combines: • Strategic thinking (what and why) • Structure (how it’s organized) • Narrative (how it lands) This ensures the final output is not just well-written, but aligned, differentiated, and actionable. What Sets Me Apart Clients value my ability to: • Bring clarity to ambiguous or complex ideas • Identify positioning and communication gaps quickly • Structure thinking in a way that supports decision-making • Bridge strategy and execution seamlessly • Deliver work that supports real-world application, not just readability Selected Work Includes • Brand positioning and strategic communication projects • Executive thought leadership and long-form content • Business and leadership books and frameworks • Knowledge systems and educational program development • Strategic communication consulting (including work with Emerj AI) • Multi-format publishing (Word, InDesign, long-form systems) If you’re looking for someone who can both define the thinking and execute it at a high level, I’d be glad to collaborate.

In a nutshell 🥜 → I create strategic ad creatives that stop the scroll, communicate value clearly and turn attention into action. I’ve worked with 8+ figure brands across 🇺🇸 USA, 🇬🇧 UK, 🇪🇺 Europe, 🇦🇪 UAE and 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia. The longer version ⬇️ Hello! I’m Naeela, a Graphic Designer and AI Ad Creative Specialist with 4+ years of experience creating high-quality visuals for e-commerce brands, agencies and growing businesses. I specialise in combining strong design, direct-response principles and AI-assisted creative production to create ads that don’t just look good, they have a clear purpose. Whether you need a full batch of Meta ad creatives, new concepts for testing, AI-generated product imagery or ongoing design support, I make the process organised, collaborative and easy. Here’s what I can help you with: ✅ Meta, Facebook and Google static ads ✅ Direct-response and conversion-focused design ✅ E-commerce and DTC ad creatives ✅ AI-generated product and lifestyle imagery ✅ UGC content and native-looking ads ✅ Copywriting and creative strategy ✅ Advertorial and problem-solution creatives ✅ Testimonial, comparison and benefit-led ads ✅ Creative concepts, hooks and visual variations ✅ Product launch and promotional campaigns ✅ Social media graphics and branded content ✅ Presentation, print and digital design ✅ Editable Canva/Figma templates and source files ✅ Social media content planning and management Tools I work with: Canva Pro | Figma | Higgsfield | ChatGPT | Claude | Meta Ads Manager | Google Ads | TikTok | Instagram | Shopify | Notion | Slack | Loom | Zoom | Google Meet | Google Workspace | Asana | Trello | Click Up | And so many more. Above all, I take pride in being reliable, responsive and easy to work with. I follow briefs carefully, communicate clearly and deliver polished creatives that aligns with your goals. Take a look at my client reviews and portfolio below to see the quality of my work and the long-term relationships I’ve built with clients. Have a project in mind? Send me a message, I’d love to hear more about what you’re creating.

Creative strategy is no longer about making better videos. It's about understanding why people buy. The brands winning on Meta today aren't creating more ads. They're creating stronger ideas, sharper hooks, clearer messaging, and creative strategy built around real customer psychology. That's where I focus. Unlike many creative strategists who come from media buying or video production, my background is in direct-response copywriting and organic social media. That matters because the biggest creative failures rarely happen in editing or campaign setup. They happen before production even begins. Weak positioning. Weak messaging. Weak hooks. Weak customer understanding. Production can't fix a bad idea. Organic social taught me how to earn attention without paying for it. Direct-response copywriting taught me how to turn attention into action. Together, they form the foundation of my creative strategy process. My Creative Strategy Services • Customer research using reviews, Reddit, TikTok, competitor ads, and customer comments. • Creative strategy development based on customer psychology. • Creative angles that differentiate your product. • Scroll-stopping hooks. • UGC ad scripts. • Creative briefs for editors and content creators. • Messaging frameworks and positioning. • Ad concept ideation. • Creative testing roadmaps. My Creative Strategy Process Every project follows the same framework: Customer research. Creative strategy. Messaging and creative development. Production. Testing and iteration. Every recommendation starts with understanding the customer, not copying competitors. The best-performing ads aren't accidents. They're the result of a repeatable creative strategy system built around real customer insights. If you're looking for a creative strategist who thinks before production starts, writes conversion-focused messaging, and builds scalable creative systems instead of chasing trends, we'll work well together. Specialties Creative Strategy • Meta Creative Strategy • Meta Ads • Facebook Ads • Instagram Ads • DTC Ecommerce • Direct-Response Copywriting • Customer Research • Customer Psychology • Messaging Strategy • Positioning • UGC Ad Scripts • Hook Development • Creative Briefs • Ad Creative • Organic Social Strategy

I help brands and performance teams turn audience insights into paid-social creative that’s ready to test. My work spans the strategic side of creative development (from audience research and angles to concepts, hooks, scripts, briefs and creative QA) with hands-on creator and production experience that helps ensure ideas can actually be executed. I currently work inside a high-volume paid-social creative environment across multiple brands and verticals, developing creator-led concepts and supporting the process from research through launch-ready creative. I can support you with: • Audience & creative research • Creative angles and concepts • Hooks and short-form scripts • UGC / creator briefs • Creative testing concepts • Creative QA and production direction • Creator-led / UGC execution My background also includes short-form audience growth, including helping grow a recruitment brand from under 1,000 to 65,000+ followers in seven months. Best fit: brands and agencies already investing in paid social that need stronger creative thinking, more testing ideas, or additional strategic capacity. If you already have a product, audience and paid-social operation, I can help turn those inputs into clear, executable creative ideas.

I’m a performance-focused creative designer specialising in Meta ad creatives, including both high-impact static images and thumb-stopping video ads. To-date I’ve created 10,000+ ads for DTC brands across 20 niches, with a strong track record for improving performance metrics, reducing creative fatigue, and helping brands scale profitably. My strengths: * Expert in Meta performance creatives (static & video) * Strong understanding of direct-response design and marketing psychology * Fast, reliable turnaround with consistent quality * Skilled in visual identity, creative direction, and brand-aligned ad design * Experienced in working with agencies, media buyers, and DTC/e-commerce brands What I deliver: * High-converting ad creatives for Meta (9:16, 1:1, 4:5) * Video ads optimized for retention, hooks, and CTR * Static ads built for clarity, messaging, and scroll-stopping impact * Iterations, variations, and creative refreshes to combat ad fatigue * Clean, modern, branded design that elevates ROAS Want to join the list of businesses I've helped scale to and beyond 8-figures? Let's connect!