Performance Designer - Paid Creative

Manukora Limited; New Zealand; Remote; MXN 1,307,000 - 1,867,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Manukora Limited, a global wellness brand, seeks a performance designer to own paid social, static and light motion assets for Meta, Amazon and landing pages. You will ensure brand standards, craft, and rapid iteration across 20+ variants while collaborating with US strategists.

You must have 5+ years of paid social design experience, a strong portfolio of ads that ran, and fluency in Figma with After Effects. Fully remote role with daytime overlap with Pacific Time.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing paid social creative for US, UK or Australian DTC or CPG brands, in-house or at an agency, with high-volume ad work.
• A portfolio that includes ads that actually ran, with results or context.
• Strong understanding of paid ads mechanics: hooks, formats, placements, testing.
• Excellent hierarchy, typography and layout instincts at thumbnail size.
• Fluency in Figma, plus After Effects or similar motion tools.
• Comfort with AI tools in workflow (Higgsfield, CapCut) used with judgement.
• Ability to work fast with high-quality pixels; brand-standard discipline.
• Overlaps with US-based strategists 4+ hours/day (Mon-Fri, Pacific time).

Responsibilities

• Design paid statics for Meta feed, TikTok, YouTube, Amazon A+ content and landing page heroes.
• Add subtle motion: short ~5-second looping assets.
• Publish rapid variant sets based on winning concepts.
• Own and maintain a documented paid template system.
• Apply claims and brand guidelines to every asset.
• Analyze performance with the team and iterate on next rounds.
• Deliver to spec and deadline with production team.
• Support wider design team on landing pages and other assets when capacity allows.

Skills

Paid social design

Motion design

Figma

After Effects

Tools

Figma

After Effects

Job description

Manukora is a global wellness brand, leading the fast-growing US Mānuka honey category. We're on a mission to preserve the power of Mānuka and deliver it to the world in pure, functional formats at uncompromising quality, purity and potency.

Born in the wilds of New Zealand, we harvest one of the planet's rarest natural resources: raw Mānuka honey. This creamy caramel super honey contains unique antioxidants, prebiotics, and a special antibacterial compound called "MGO."

Established in 2015, we are a founder-led, family-owned business headquartered in New Zealand with operations globally in the United States and Europe. Manukora is a certified B Corporation, working with locally-based master beekeeping partners to produce the highest quality Mānuka, leading through ethical beekeeping practices and investing in our bees, their environment and the communities that surround them.

We are a team of beekeepers, herbalists, food scientists, and wellness professionals working to deliver this one-of-a-kind honey and reimagine the immune and digestive wellness categories.

The role

We're bringing our paid ad creative in-house, and this is the hire that makes it happen. You'll be the dedicated designer for our paid team: statics and light motion for Meta, Amazon and our landing pages, briefed by our US-based creative strategists and built to one visual standard across brand and performance. You'll report to our Senior Design Lead for design craft, brand standards and development, and work with the strategists and paid creative team day to day.

You'll take over the paid static and motion work an external agency does for us today, at the same volume and standard from your first month. This is not a role with a learning curve on the basics.

This is a performance designer role, not a brand designer who happens to make ads. You think in hooks, hierarchy and thumb-stop on a phone screen. You're happy making 20 variants of a winner, and you want to know why version C beat version A. But you're brand-fluent enough to hold a premium standard - no meme ads, no two visual worlds.

What you'll do

• Paid statics - design static ad concepts for Meta feed, TikTok, YouTube and other ad placements from creative strategist briefs, plus Amazon A+ content and landing page heroes.
• Light motion - bring statics to life with subtle animation: short, looping, ~5-second assets, not full video edits
• Rapid iteration - most of the work is variants of what's already winning. Turn around fast, clean variant sets on new hooks, headlines, visuals and formats
• Own the paid template system - build and maintain a documented static system (formats, sizes, brand-safe layouts, claim placements) that makes speed and consistency the default
• Get it right on-canvas - apply our claims and compliance rules (MGO grades, product claims) and brand guidelines to every asset, every time
• Read your own results - go into Motion, see how your ads performed, and work with the strategists on why - then design the next round off that
• Deliver to spec and deadline - work through the production queue with the creative strategists, Creative Producer & Ops, and the growth/paid team
• When there's capacity, support the wider design team on landing pages, retail and other digital assets

What you'll bring

• 5+ years designing paid social creative for US, UK or Australian DTC or CPG brands, in-house or at an agency, running high volumes of paid ads.
• A portfolio of ads that actually ran, ideally with results or context on what worked. A portfolio link is required, and it must include paid social ads that ran. Applications showing only brand, packaging or organic work will not be reviewed.
• A strong understanding of how paid ads work - hooks, formats, placements, creative testing, and what moves the numbers
• Excellent hierarchy, typography and layout instincts at thumbnail size
• Fluency in Figma, plus After Effects or similar motion
• Comfort with AI tools in the workflow (we use Higgsfield and CapCut) - used with judgement, never at the expense of craft
• Speed without sloppiness - you can hit a volume target and still care about every pixel
• Brand-standard discipline - you respect a guideline and know how to push inside it
• At least 4 hours a day overlapping with 9am to 5pm Pacific, Monday to Friday, to work live with our US-based creative strategists

What this role is not

• Packaging or brand campaign concepting
• Organic social
• Junior/entry-level - you should be able to take a brief and run
• A role where we'll teach you paid creative. We need you producing to brief, at our standard, within your first two weeks
• A slow-paced role. We're a high-volume, fast-scaling business and the work needs focus

What success looks like in your first 90 days

• All paid statics and light motion made in-house, at or above our current weekly volume
• A documented static template system the whole team can work from
• Your static win rate tracked against our current baseline

Why you'll love it

• Your work ships weekly - you'll see what you made go live, and see exactly how it performed
• A brand worth designing for - premium product, distinctive identity, and an audience that genuinely loves what we make. A chance to work with a leading US wellness brand.
• One team, one standard - you'll sit in the design team (4 other global team members), close to the brand, with the paid team as your daily connect
• Fully remote - at least 4 hours' overlap with 9am to 5pm Pacific