Performance Creative Designer (E-commerce)

Social Ad Designer | Performance Creative (eCommerce)

📍 Remote (South Africa-based)

🕐 Full-Time

💰 Above market salary + monthly performance bonus structure

FMG Digital is one of South Africa's fastest-growing performance marketing agencies. In the last 3 years we've scaled 60+ eCommerce brands across beauty, fashion, wellness and skincare. We now generate +R400M every year in revenue across our portfolio of brands.

We are not a branding agency. We are not a "pretty ads" agency. We are a performance creative machine. We're looking for an Ad Designer who's built real volume for eCommerce brands, can move fast across multiple accounts at once and is obsessive about their craft, always hunting for ways to improve their win rate.

What You Will Be Responsible For

You'll design high-volume static ad creative across 8-10 eCommerce brands, working closely with strategists and media buyers to feed the testing machine.

That includes:

• Turning briefs into scroll-stopping statics fast, without needing every detail spelled out.
• Designing creative that's built to perform: clear hierarchy, instant readability, a hook that lands in a fraction of a second, and a reason to stop scrolling.
• Working across multiple brands at once while holding each brand's look and standard.
• Pushing the limits of what's possible with AI image and editing tools to produce more, better, faster than a traditional designer.
• Producing iteration variants on winning concepts quickly so we can scale what works.
• Going the extra mile. When you see a sharper execution than the brief asked for, you build it and put it forward.

What We Are Looking For

• You've designed static ad creative for e-commerce brands, ideally several at once.
• You're obsessive about your craft. You study what's working, you sweat the details, and you're never satisfied that a design can't be better.
• You're performance-first. You care whether an ad converts, not just whether it looks good.
• You have strong design fundamentals: composition, hierarchy, type, and readability on a small screen.
• You understand what makes a feed ad stop the scroll and you can do it on demand.
• You move fast across multiple brands without dropping quality.
• You treat AI tools as a core part of your craft and you're already ahead of most designers on what they can do.
• You take feedback well and you're not precious about your work.

Minimum Requirements

• 2+ years designing static paid social ad creative, with e-commerce experience.
• Proven ability to handle multiple brands or clients at once without quality slipping.
• Strong static design skills with a sharp eye for layout, type, and hierarchy.
• Hands-on experience with AI creative tools and evidence you push them hard.
• A portfolio of static ad creative, ideally with performance results attached.
• Available as a permanent, full-time employee, self-managed and remote-ready.

Bonus Points If You

• Have worked inside a paid social testing process before.
• Understand performance metrics like CTR, CVR, and thumb-stop rate, and use them to guide design.
• Have used tools like Foreplay, Motion, Atria, CreativeOS, Midjourney, or similar.

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What You Get at FMG Digital

• Access to the latest production flows and AI creative tools, plus constant upskilling. We invest in making you the very best at your craft, and you'll be sharper here than anywhere you've worked.
• A documented, proven creative testing system, so you know what's working and why.
• Direct access to strategists and media buyers.
• Above market base plus monthly performance bonuses. When your ads scale brands, you earn more.
• A results-driven culture focused on output and impact, not hours.
• Fully remote from anywhere in South Africa.

This Role Is Not For You If

• You need every detail spelled out before you can start.
• You see AI as a threat instead of an advantage.
• You make pretty ads that don't convert.
• You can only focus on one brand at a time.
• You're satisfied with "good enough" and not driven to keep improving.

How to Apply

Click "Easy Apply". All successful applicants complete a practical design test, followed by an interview. We take hiring seriously because the people we bring in shape the results we deliver. If you're ready to do the best work of your career, we'd love to hear from you.