YouTube Thumbnail Designer
Skills
Adobe PhotoshopManagementEnglishExperience DesignLinkedinSpoken EnglishTitles
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Strong portfolio of YouTube-specific thumbnail work
- Clear understanding of visual hierarchy curiosity contrast and viewer psychology
- Excellent Photoshop ability
- Experience designing for educational business or talking-head channels
- Ability to produce high-quality work quickly and consistently
- Judgement to make strong visual decisions without detailed direction every time
- Ability to explain creative decisions and respond well to feedback
- Strong ownership reliability and communication
- Fluent written and spoken English
Nice to have
- Reliable
- Creative judgment
- Fast turnaround
- Strong ownership
- Clear communicator
Day to day
- Design thumbnails for 16 client videos per week including revisions
- Work closely with the strategy team on titles concepts and visual hooks
- Turn approved concepts into clear high-impact thumbnail designs
- Produce additional variants when testing is strategically justified
- Study performance and apply winning ideas to future designs
- Keep every thumbnail on track for its publishing deadline
- Communicate early if anything could affect delivery or quality
Hiring process
- Share portfolio and evidence of published YouTube thumbnail work and a short video walkthrough of strongest work and creative decision-making
- Applications without an accessible portfolio and video walkthrough will not be reviewed
- Strong candidates will be invited to a short interview
- Followed by a paid trial using a real VTC client brief