Temporary Senior Designer – Art Director, YouTube Long-Form Content

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Senior Designer/Art Director creating visual identity and content for YouTube channel. Collaborating with teams to produce engaging long-form video tutorials and branded assets.

Posted 6/1/2026part-timeLos Angeles • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $70 - $100 per hourWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Long-Form Asset Design & Storytelling: Concept and architect complete design layouts, storyboards, and on-screen graphic frameworks for episodic YouTube series, full workflow tutorials, and scripted branded entertainment assets. Develop tight visual pacing, clear graphic templates, and aesthetic structures that keep viewers engaged.
Visual Identity & Style Execution: Adopt and protect our client’s brand design identity—modern, cultured, direct, and trustworthy. Craft art direction and graphic elements that feel like it’s coming from an authentic peer or mentor.
Hands-On Production & Collaboration: Actively participate in physical productions, walkthrough captures, and live editing sessions. Work directly with Copywriters, Videographers, Editors, and Creator Partners throughout the process to ensure content clarity.
Platform-Native Packaging: Apply rigorous platform visual optimizations and thumbnail formatting rules for YouTube. Design compelling, high-CTR video thumbnails and optimize long-form visual context cues.
Collaborative Concepting: Collaborate on structural series treatment ideas (such as formatting tutorial layouts into repeatable episodic franchises) to build a destination that professional creators subscribe to, screenshot, and share.
Presentation & Critique: Confidently present design decks, visual storyboards, and conceptual layouts to internal stakeholders and client leads. Iterate and adapt creative frameworks swiftly based on structural or brand feedback.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of digital advertising or professional content creation experience, with a distinct specialization in graphic design, art direction, and visual storytelling for long-form, episodic, or internet-native entertainment.
Hands-on video production experience is REQUIRED. Must have a deep understanding of setting up content capture workflows, collaborating directly on sets (studio or live environments), and working directly inside modern post-production pipelines.
Online Portfolio Requirement: Your submitted portfolio/reel link must feature an online portfolio demonstrating design/art direction capabilities in episodic, long-form content. Portfolio must feature one or more of the following explicit categories to be considered:
- Long-form, episodic video design, digital series graphic frameworks, or style guides.
- Highly structured visual content and thumbnail layouts designed specifically for YouTube distribution metrics.
- Full visual art direction for branded entertainment films or video workflows.
Deep fluency in social platform trends, subcultures, and internet editing behavior.
Highly organized self-starter capable of managing design and asset workloads under tight, reactive turnaround cycles.

Benefits

Comp & perks

401(k) Participation: Access to our 401(k) retirement plan, including a company match
Statutory Benefits: Eligibility for all legally mandated benefits as required by law.

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Hard Skills & Tools

graphic designart directionvisual storytellingvideo productioncontent capture workflowspost-production pipelinesYouTube optimizationthumbnail designvisual pacingstoryboarding

Soft Skills

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