Freelance Brand Designer

Overview

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. This role is a 6 month freelance engagement focused on Manila, with flexible, remote-friendly ways of working. Availability is approximately 30 hours per week, paid on a pay-per-output model.

Where And How You Can Work

Alongside our global campuses, we collaborate with contractors and freelancers from around the world. For this role we’re focusing on Manila to best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales, change remains part of our DNA. This role will give you a sense of the work you’ll start with, though it will likely evolve. We’re looking for a Freelance Brand Designer (Growth Marketing) to join Canva on a 6-month freelance engagement. You’ll focus on performance creative production, delivering ad assets, UGC edits, and lifecycle visuals for our PH market. You’ll work on both always-on creative sprints across paid channels (Meta, TikTok, Google Display) and campaign deliverables across owned channels (lifecycle emails and app store assets). You’ll collaborate with marketers on creative concepts and ad visuals, ensuring outputs are on-brand and optimized for performance.

At The Moment, This Role Is Focused On

• Supporting Canva’s PH growth marketing efforts by designing and iterating ad creative for performance marketing testing & UGC sprints.
• Partnering with marketers and channel owners on creative conceptualization, channel and market best practices, and creative test scaling across other channels and formats.
• Monthly creative sprint ad assets in static and motion/video formats (1:1, 9:16, 16:9).
• Monthly UGC/lo-fi style video sprints and experiments (e.g. hook and CTA testing, editing).
• Display GIF/banners and app marketing assets for always-on creative refreshers and local seasonal campaigns.
• Email, in-app, and app storefront campaign banners to support local campaigns and experiments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and adapt static, video, and motion ads across Meta, TikTok, Google, and Display.
• Edit and optimize UGC videos for ad sprints.
• Collaborate with marketers to translate strategy and insights into effective creatives.
• Contribute to conceptualization for growth marketing campaigns and lifecycle assets.
• Ensure all outputs are optimized for channel specs, on-brand, and localized for PH market.
• Share creative learnings and insights to strengthen future testing and production.

You\'re probably a match if

We’re seeking a designer who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments and is excited by the challenge of bringing ideas to life in digital media. You should be comfortable balancing creativity with execution, delivering polished assets on time while leaving space for experimentation and innovation. You’ll succeed if you’re resourceful, detail-oriented, and passionate about design, social media, and creating content that resonates with local audiences.

Key Competencies & Attributes

• Strong design portfolio showcasing digital ads, motion graphics, or UGC video edits.
• Proficiency in design tools.
• Experience creating content for Meta, TikTok, Google Ads, or other performance channels.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, test-and-learn environment.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to adapt creative concepts across multiple formats and sizes.
• A collaborative partner who can work closely with marketers and other creatives.
• Understanding of local Filipino cultural trends and how to translate them into design.

About The Team

Marketing’s mission at Canva is for Canva to become “the most loved brand in the world.” Canva’s International Marketing Group is a diverse and distributed group of marketers who drive user growth, brand awareness, and affinity in priority international markets. The SEA Marketing team blends global strategies with hyperlocal insights to create meaningful connections with users in the Philippines through local campaigns and evergreen creative initiatives across performance marketing, brand, events, partnerships, social, community engagement, and other growth channels. The designer will work directly with the SEA Growth Marketing team, supporting the creation of engaging, locally resonant creative content for the Philippines.

Other Stuff To Know

We make hiring decisions to engage contractors based on experience, skills, and passion. When you signify interest, please share your pronouns and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the contractor-accreditation interview process. Contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually. We celebrate all skills and backgrounds at Canva, so even if your skills don’t perfectly match what’s listed above, we still want to hear from you. Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

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