Job Title:
Direct-Response Creative Strategist & Static Ad Designer
Time Zone:
UK
Hours
: Full-time (40 hours per week)
Our client is looking for a Direct-Response Creative Strategist & UGLY Static Ad Designer to produce high-performing paid social statics for Meta. They are currently producing ~100 ads per month (statics + video), and this role focuses entirely on creating UGLY, scroll-stopping, conversion-first direct-response creatives.
This is not a brand designer role.
This is a direct-response role focused on disruptive, high-velocity testing and performance.
Key Responsibilities
Design wildly diverse, UGLY, scroll-stopping direct-response statics that do NOT follow brand guidelines.
Rapidly turn hooks, reviews, objections, and product benefits into new DR angles.
Produce high-volume creative variations across colours, layouts, typography, and formats.
Generate new weekly angle concepts and competitor breakdowns.
Create high-disruption advertising concepts that break patterns and stop the scroll.
Use AI tools to accelerate concepting, ideation, and creative production.
Follow the company’s direct-response creative process and testing workflow.
Provide
30–50 static creative variations
per week as expected output.
Requirements
Comfortable using AI tools for concepting, ideation, and production.
Must be able to create:
Ugly DR ads;
Screenshots + yellow highlight callouts;
Crazy headline variations;
Meme-inspired visuals;
Review/testimonial overlays;
Before/after style creatives;
Offer-led ads;
Competitor teardown angles;
Raw UGC text-over-image layouts.
- Direct-Response Strategy Knowledge - you must understand:
- Hooks;
- Angles;
- Objections;
- Benefits;
- Turning insights into creative concepts.