Digital Designer - Performance Marketing

3Search; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

3Search, Manchester-based, is seeking a digital designer with paid-media design experience. You’ll shape creative across display, paid social and search campaigns and craft landing pages that convert quickly.

You’ll combine strong Adobe skills with an eye for messaging, hierarchy and CTAs, while adapting assets to different channels and placements. Hybrid working in Manchester, collaborating with global teams.

Qualifications

• Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite and digital-first portfolio pieces.
• Experience creating paid media visuals across banners, social and search assets.
• Strong understanding of hierarchy, messaging, CTA, and user behaviour for landing pages.
• Familiarity with modular templates and digital systems to adapt creative.
• Interest in AI-assisted creative workflows and rapid versioning.

Responsibilities

• Design across display, paid social, search-led campaigns and supporting landing pages.
• Develop landing pages that capture attention quickly and drive actions.
• Create complete suites of ad formats/sizes, not just one-off assets.
• Work within established templates and modular systems (HTML5 banners a plus).
• Collaborate closely with performance marketing, social, PM and creative teams.

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite

Paid advertising creative

Landing page design

HTML5 banners

AI workflows

Tools

Marketo

PathFactory

Job description

What they need

• Someone with genuine paid-media design experience, who understands the creative journey from ad impression through to landing page and conversion. You’ll be designing across display advertising, paid social, search-led campaigns and supporting landing pages, so you need to understand how each asset contributes to the wider performance funnel
• A digital designer who understands what makes creative perform, rather than simply producing visually polished work. You’ll need a strong instinct for hierarchy, messaging, calls to action and user behaviour, with the ability to create landing pages that capture attention quickly and make the next action obvious
• Someone who can work across the full paid-media ecosystem, from Google and display advertising through to LinkedIn, YouTube and social channels. You don't need to be a performance marketer, but you should understand the different demands of each channel and how creative needs to adapt to the placement, audience and objective
• Someone comfortable working within established digital systems and templates, able to take an existing structure and either recreate it accurately or develop something fresh within its parameters. Experience with platforms such as Marketo and PathFactory is highly desirable, but the underlying ability to understand modular digital systems is just as important
• Someone highly responsive and adaptable, who can manage multiple requests, fast turnaround times and ongoing stakeholder feedback without losing attention to detail. You’ll be working closely with performance marketing, social, project management and creative teams, so being engaged, communicative and collaborative is essential

What you're great at

• Adobe Creative Suite, with strong digital design capability across Photoshop, Illustrator and related tools. Your portfolio should demonstrate digital-first work rather than being primarily focused on websites, UX or UI
• Paid advertising creative, including display banners, Google Ads, paid social, GIFs and animated graphics, with experience producing complete suites of formats and sizes rather than one-off assets
• Landing page design and digital experiences, with a strong understanding of responsive design, layout, hierarchy, CTA placement and user journeys, particularly how to capture and retain attention within the first few seconds of someone arriving from a paid campaign
• Digital platforms and templating systems, alongside an understanding of modular content structures and how to adapt creative within established templates. HTML5 banner experience is a strong nice-to-have
• AI-supported creative workflows, with genuine enthusiasm for experimentation and particularly strong prompting ability. You’ll be expected to explore how AI can accelerate versioning, adaptation and production without compromising creative judgement

What you'll get

• Manchester-based, with a hybrid working model expected to be around 2–3 days in the office, with the wider creative team distributed internationally
• A genuine performance-design remit, where your work is directly connected to paid campaigns and commercial outcomes rather than existing purely for brand expression