Remote | Texas-Based | Dallas – Fort Worth Preferred | Independent Contractor

About the Role

Joe Youngblood SEO & Digital Marketing Consulting is a Dallas-based digital marketing agency with a heavy focus on SEO and organic discovery seeking an experienced independent web and graphic designer to become our preferred design partner.

This is not a traditional full-time or part-time position. Instead, we are looking to build a long-term relationship with a talented independent designer who will receive the first opportunity to bid on and accept our design projects before we offer them to other designers.

Our agency produces a wide variety of creative work for our own brands and for clients across multiple industries. Projects can range from complete website designs and landing pages to infographics, advertisements, social media graphics, sales materials, and other digital assets.

The ideal designer is versatile, dependable, creative, responsive, and comfortable working within existing brand guidelines while also being capable of developing an entirely new visual direction when necessary.

What You’ll Design

Projects may include:

• Website designs and website redesigns
• Homepage and landing page designs
• Interior website page layouts
• Mobile and responsive web design concepts
• Infographics and data visualizations
• Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Reddit, and other social media graphics
• Digital advertisements and display ads
• Paid social advertising creative
• Blog and editorial graphics
• Email marketing graphics
• Sales and marketing collateral
• Presentation graphics
• Brand assets and campaign creative
• Logos and visual identity concepts
• Website illustrations, diagrams, and supporting visual elements
• Other digital design projects as needed

The Relationship

We are specifically looking for someone interested in becoming a long-term independent design partner for our agency, rather than someone looking for occasional one-off freelance assignments.

The selected designer will receive first-bid / right-of-first-refusal status on our agency’s design work.

When a qualifying design project becomes available, we will provide the project requirements and give you the first opportunity to:

1. Review the project;
2. Provide pricing and/or an estimated project scope; and
3. Accept or decline the work.

If you decline a project, are unavailable within the required timeline, or we cannot agree on the scope or price, we may then offer the project to another designer.

This arrangement does not guarantee a minimum number of projects, hours, or income, and you remain an independent contractor free to maintain your own clients and business.

Our goal, however, is to develop a relationship where our preferred designer handles the large majority of the agency’s ongoing design needs.

Required Qualifications

Applicants must:

• Reside in Texas
• Be legally eligible to work as an independent contractor in the United States
• Have a strong, professional design portfolio
• Have demonstrated experience designing websites
• Have demonstrated experience creating infographics
• Have demonstrated experience creating social media graphics and/or digital advertisements
• Be capable of working across multiple brands and visual styles
• Have strong typography, layout, spacing, hierarchy, and composition skills
• Understand modern website and landing page design
• Be comfortable designing for both desktop and mobile experiences
• Be able to take written creative direction and translate it into polished visual work
• Be able to revise designs based on agency and client feedback
• Communicate reliably and meet agreed-upon deadlines
• Provide editable/source files upon completion of projects

Strongly Preferred

Preference will be given to designers who:

• Live in the Dallas–Fort Worth area
• Have worked with digital marketing agencies
• Have experience designing conversion-focused landing pages
• Understand basic UX/UI principles
• Understand how website design can impact SEO and conversion rates
• Have experience designing for WordPress websites
• Have experience working from wireframes, screenshots, or existing websites
• Can create both highly polished corporate designs and more creative/consumer-oriented designs
• Have experience with Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or comparable professional design tools
• Can work quickly when a project occasionally requires a short turnaround

What We’re Looking For in Your Portfolio

Your portfolio is the most important part of your application.

Please make sure it contains examples of all or most of the following:

• Full website or homepage designs
• Landing pages
• Infographics
• Social media graphics
• Digital advertisements
• Marketing or campaign creative

We are looking for evidence that you can adapt your design style to the brand and project rather than applying the same visual style to every client.

Applicants whose portfolios consist primarily of logos, illustrations, print materials, or fine art without substantial digital marketing and website design work are unlikely to be a fit for this role.

Compensation

This is an independent contractor / freelance relationship.

Projects will generally be priced individually based on scope. Depending on the project, compensation may be structured as:

• Fixed project pricing
• Hourly pricing
• Day rates
• Agreed-upon rates for recurring types of creative work

You will have an opportunity to review the scope and pricing of a project before accepting it.

Location

This position is 100% remote, but applicants must currently reside in Texas.

Designers located in Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Frisco, Denton, McKinney, or elsewhere in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex are strongly preferred.

We are not accepting international applicants or offshore design agencies for this role.

How to Apply

Please submit:

• Your name
• Your city and state
• A link to your portfolio
• A brief description of your design experience
• The design software you primarily use
• Your typical pricing structure or rate range
• Your general availability
• Whether you currently work independently or as part of a design studio/agency

Please include direct links to examples of website design, infographic design, and social media or advertising creative if they are not immediately visible in your primary portfolio.

We are not looking for the lowest-cost designer. We are looking for a high-quality, reliable creative partner who can become the first person we call whenever our agency or one of our clients needs design work.