Thumbnail Designer - YouTube and Podcasts (Contract | Part-Time)

About the role:

We’re looking for a creative and experienced Thumbnail Designer who is familiar with the YouTube space to create visually compelling designs with a high CTR for our 5 YouTube channels (BiggerPockets Real Estate—with 1.2M subscribers, BiggerPockets Money, Real Estate Rookie, On the Market, and PassivePockets). As a thumbnail designer you will be responsible for developing winning visual concepts, compositing and designing those concepts, collaborating in production meetings, and using analytics to refine the designs for both podcast episode art and YouTube directly. A strong understanding of YouTube best practices, ability to have extremely fast turnaround times, photo manipulation, and A/B testing will help you to succeed in this position. Most importantly, we need someone who is a team player, is obsessed with YouTube, understands our audience and their unique needs in the real estate space, and is always striving to improve. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Design thumbnails for at least 11 podcasts per week, including YouTube thumbnails, podcast episode artwork, and web thumbnails & 7 YouTube original videos per week
• Provide multiple thumbnail design ideas for each piece of content for A/B testing
• Design thumbnails live with the team on occasion
• Work quickly and efficiently, some of our shows may have a day-of turnaround time as we capture timely information or events
• Select the best headshots to match the feel and text of the thumbnail design
• Stay up to date with current trends/best practices within the thumbnail space
• Collaborating with other team members to generate the best designs possible. This includes idea generation, data review, sharing assets, and providing helpful feedback

About You:

• 3+ years of experience in YouTube Thumbnail Design for high-volume channels
• Passionate about all things YouTube
• Strong Graphic Design and Text Effects expertise—with an eye for compelling thumbnails
• Experience with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, photo editing, or vector art programs
• Ability to analyze and interpret Click-through Rate and other YouTube video data for design improvement
• Experience working with high-volume YouTube channels
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to meet virtually with producers throughout the week in fluent English
• Quick turnaround on thumbnail and podcast art deliverables
• Experience in creating podcast show/episode art for high-subscriber channels
• Familiar with Google Drive, Airtable, and/or Dropbox is a plus
• Location Requirements:
• Based in United States

Compensation & Schedule:

• $15 - $20 per thumbnail
• Less than 20 hours per week

About BiggerPockets:

BiggerPockets is the leading resource for anyone looking to succeed in real estate investing. Since 2004, we’ve helped investors get their first (or next) deal through a unique combination of immersive media education, deal analysis tools, and a supportive community of more than 3 million members. We aim to help people avoid real estate investing mistakes, learn valuable tips, find partners, deals, and financing, and make the smartest investment decisions to achieve financial success and personal financial freedom. 

The Content Team at BiggerPockets is responsible for driving the content production factory across our multiple top-ranking podcasts, YouTube channels, online blog, social media, community channels, educational courses, in-person and virtual events, and book publishing business to bring high-quality, high-intent traffic to the website, www.biggerpockets.com.