Production Designer (Freelance)

About Animalz
Animalz is a content marketing agency that partners with B2B SaaS companies, venture capital firms, and other tech organizations to drive long-term, sustainable growth through high-quality content. Our fully remote team delivers content strategies tailored to each customer's goals and context, and we're growing our design services to bring the same level of quality to the visual side of our work.

Our customers include industry leaders like Amplitude, Ramp, and Wistia, as well as high-growth early-stage startups.

About the Role
We're looking for freelance production designers to join our growing design team. You'll take established brand assets and design briefs and turn them into polished, professional marketing deliverables: ebooks, reports, slide decks, social media graphics, and inline blog visuals for our B2B technology customers.

This is an execution-focused role. You'll work from briefs and brand guidelines provided by our Creative Director and content team, applying existing visual systems to create layouts that are clean, consistent, and on-brand. You won't be inventing brands from scratch. You'll be assembling the puzzle pieces into something that looks great and tells a clear story.

The right person is fast, reliable, detail-oriented, and takes pride in production craft. You understand that great layout design isn't just "placing things on a page"—it's making content easier to read, more engaging, and more persuasive.

What You'll Do

• Design ebooks, reports, and whitepapers: Lay out long-form content with clear visual hierarchy, incorporating charts/graphs, pull quotes, icons, imagery, and infographics as needed
• Create presentation and slide deck designs: Build visually compelling slides that support a narrative, including data visualizations, diagrams, and light animation where appropriate
• Produce social media graphics: Design graphics for LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and other platforms—carousels, quote cards, checklists, and promotional visuals
• Design inline blog graphics: Create supporting visuals for blog posts—diagrams, flowcharts, illustrated concepts, and data visualizations
• Follow brand guidelines precisely: Apply established color palettes, typography, icon sets, and visual treatments consistently across all deliverables
• Incorporate feedback efficiently: Respond to revision requests from the Creative Director quickly and accurately
• Deliver organized, final files: Export assets in the correct formats (PNG, SVG, JPEG, PDF, GIF) with clean file naming and organization

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years of production/layout design experience, preferably in an agency, studio, or freelance context serving multiple customers
• Strong layout and typography skills: You know how to create visual hierarchy, use whitespace effectively, and make dense content feel approachable
• Proficiency in Figma (required)—this is our primary design tool and familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)
• Data visualization ability: You can take raw data and turn it into clear, visually appealing charts, graphs, and infographics
• Speed and consistency: You can produce high-quality work efficiently and maintain visual consistency across deliverables for the same customer
• Attention to detail: Pixel-perfect alignment, consistent spacing, correct brand colors. You notice the small things matter
• Self-directed and reliable: You manage your time well, communicate proactively about deadlines, and deliver when you say you will
• Comfortable with feedback: You take creative direction well and don't take revision requests personally

Nice to Have

• Experience designing for B2B SaaS or technology brands
  
• Basic animation/GIF creation skills
• Experience with AI-assisted design tools
• Familiarity with interactive PDF creation

Working Arrangements

• Type: Freelance/contract — hours will vary based on customer workload, with potential for consistent ongoing work as the practice grows
• Location: Fully remote
• Timezone: Some overlap with US business hours required, but flexible for async workflows
• Compensation: $40 - $50/hour USD