Designers who work inside your workflow
Hire Creative & Graphics Resources in India
Add a graphic designer, UI designer, social media creative, motion designer or video editor to your team. We deploy the specialist; you set the priorities and review the work, the way you would with a colleague down the corridor.
Head office in Navi Mumbai; teams in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi. We work with businesses in India and overseas, and briefs and check-ins follow the rhythm your team prefers. Want a finished campaign delivered rather than a person added to your team? See social media management or PPC services.
- Portfolio review and a practical task before you commit
- Works in your tools and chat
- Source files handed over
- Terms agreed per requirement
You describe the role, the tools and the seniority you need; we shortlist designers, you review portfolios and set a practical task, and the one you pick joins your workflow. They work on your priorities, in your channels, to your brand rules, and hand over the source files. Engagement is full-time, part-time, monthly or project-based, and terms are agreed per requirement. We do not publish rate cards or promise a fixed time-to-hire.
Awards and Recognition
Roles you can hire
Eleven creative roles, one way of working
"Graphic designer" covers a lot of ground. A packaging artist and a motion editor use different tools and think about different problems. Pick the role your backlog is really made of, or combine two or three into a small creative pod.
Graphic designer
The all-rounder for campaigns, brochures, posters, creatives and everyday marketing material.
UI/UX designer
Screens, flows and clickable prototypes for websites and apps, handed to developers in a form they can build from.
Brand and identity designer
Logos, colour and type systems, and the guidelines that keep every other designer consistent.
Social media creative designer
A steady flow of posts, carousels, stories and covers that follow your calendar and platform formats.
Motion graphics and video editor
Reels, explainers, ad cuts, animated logos and edited footage with titles, captions and sound.
Packaging and print designer
Labels, boxes, catalogues and brochures prepared with the dielines, bleed and colour setup a printer expects.
Illustrator
Custom illustrations, icon sets, characters and editorial artwork that stock libraries cannot give you.
Presentation and pitch-deck designer
Sales decks, investor decks and reports turned from walls of text into something people finish reading.
Ecommerce and product-image designer
Listing images, A+ content, size charts, retouching and catalogue banners across marketplaces and your own store.
Email and newsletter designer
Responsive email layouts and modular templates your marketers can reuse without a designer each time.
Web banner and ad creative designer
Display, search-adjacent and social ad sets in many sizes, built for testing variants against each other.
Not sure which role fits? Describe the last ten things your team needed made and we will map them to roles on the call. Need the work to go live on a site? Pair the designer with a WordPress developer.
Tools and deliverables
The software they use and the files you get back
Tell us the tools your team already works in and we shortlist designers fluent in those. Tool names below are the ones we typically see in briefs; none is mandatory.
Adobe XD and similar tools come up only when a team is already on them. Software licences and stock-asset subscriptions are named as inside or outside scope when terms are agreed.
Typical deliverables
- Social posts, carousels and stories
- Ad creatives in every size you run
- Logos, brand kits and guidelines
- Brochures, flyers and catalogues
- Packaging with dielines and print files
- Pitch decks and reports
- Product and listing images
- Email templates and headers
- Reels, explainers and logo animations
- UI screens and prototypes
Who hires creative resources
Six kinds of team that add a designer from India
Startups
You need a brand, a deck and a website look before you can afford a full creative department.
Ecommerce brands
Hundreds of listings, seasonal banners and ad variants need a designer who is always in the files.
SaaS and product teams
Product UI, release graphics, help-centre art and webinar assets, in one consistent system.
In-house marketing teams
Your marketers outgrew Canva templates, or your one designer is the bottleneck for everyone.
Agencies in India
Pitches and campaigns arrive in bursts; extra hands keep deadlines without permanent hires.
Agencies abroad
White-label capacity: the designer works to your brand rules and your client's name stays on the work.
Skills matrix
Which role lives in which software
A quick way to check a shortlist against your tool stack. "Core" means the role cannot do the job without it; "Often" means it is common but not universal. Individual designers vary, so confirm with a portfolio and a task.
| Role | Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign | After Effects | Premiere Pro | Figma | Canva | CorelDRAW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphic designer | Core | Core | Often | Rare | Rare | Often | Often | Often |
| UI/UX designer | Often | Often | Rare | Often | Rare | Core | Rare | Rare |
| Brand and identity | Often | Core | Core | Often | Rare | Often | Rare | Often |
| Social media creative | Core | Often | Rare | Often | Often | Often | Core | Rare |
| Motion and video editor | Often | Often | Rare | Core | Core | Rare | Rare | Rare |
| Packaging and print | Often | Core | Core | Rare | Rare | Rare | Rare | Core |
| Illustrator | Core | Core | Rare | Often | Rare | Rare | Rare | Often |
| Presentation and pitch deck | Often | Often | Often | Rare | Rare | Often | Often | Rare |
| Ecommerce and product image | Core | Often | Rare | Rare | Rare | Rare | Often | Rare |
| Email and newsletter | Core | Rare | Rare | Often | Rare | Core | Often | Rare |
| Web banner and ad creative | Core | Often | Rare | Often | Often | Often | Often | Rare |
How to evaluate a designer
Four checks that tell you more than a CV
Run the same four checks on every shortlisted designer, ours or anyone else's. Together they take an afternoon and replace a lot of guesswork.
1. Portfolio review
Look for range inside your category, work that shows the thinking behind it, and a clear line between what they made and what a team made.
2. Practical brief
A short paid-or-agreed task based on your real work, with a deadline and one round of feedback. It shows speed, taste and how they take direction.
3. Tool and file hygiene
Open their working file. Named layers, linked assets, live type, sensible artboards and clean exports signal someone you can hand work to.
4. Communication
Do they ask about the audience, restate the brief and take feedback without drama?
- Task
- Take one hero visual from our latest campaign and adapt it to a square post, a vertical story and a web banner.
- You are given
- The brand colours and fonts, the logo files and the original artwork.
- What we look at
- Hierarchy kept across sizes, safe areas respected, text readable on a phone, files named and layered.
- Feedback round
- One short round of comments, so you also see how the designer reacts to direction.
Task ideas by role
- UI/UX: redesign one checkout or sign-up screen and explain three decisions.
- Brand: sketch two logo directions for a made-up product and justify each.
- Motion: animate a static logo into a short sting, with the project file.
- Packaging: place a label on a supplied dieline with print-ready marks.
- Ecommerce: clean and retouch three product photos to a listing standard.
- Deck: turn two dense text slides into one clear visual slide.
Keep tasks short and based on made-up or already-public material. We are glad to run the task in the open, and you keep any result you like.
Red flags
What should make you pause when hiring any designer
A portfolio of templates
If every piece looks like a stock layout with a new logo, ask which parts they designed from scratch.
Flattened files only
JPGs and PDFs with no layered source means every change restarts from zero.
Vague ownership
No answer on who owns the final files, fonts and licensed assets is a problem to fix before any work starts.
No questions asked
A designer who starts without asking about audience, usage and deadline will redo the work later.
How the work runs
The designer joins your workflow, you stay in charge
We deploy the resource. You direct the work. That means your tracker, your chat, your brand guide and your review rules, not a parallel process that you have to translate.
- Requests arrive in the tool you already use: a board, a shared sheet, a chat channel
- Brand guidelines, fonts and asset libraries are shared at onboarding
- Drafts are shared for review in the format your team prefers
- Final files are delivered with the source, organised the way you ask
- A monthly review looks at the scope, the workload and whether the fit is still right
Working hours and the overlap with your team are agreed at kickoff for your situation. If you also need people for the pages and apps the designs end up on, see PHP developers or Ruby on Rails developers.
Content-heavy calendar?
A designer for the daily post, a team for the whole channel
If you want the plan, publishing and community side handled too, our social media management team does that. Adding a designer to your own team is the lighter option.
Describe your calendarEngagement models
Four ways to bring a designer into your team
Choose by the shape of your workload, not by the label. Terms are agreed per requirement after a short call, and we publish no rate cards.
Full-time dedicated resource
Steady daily workOne designer working on your queue through the working week. Suits ecommerce, social and product teams with a constant flow of requests.
Part-time or hourly
Where the role allowsA set share of a designer's time, or hours as needed, for smaller backlogs. Works best when requests are batched and briefs are clear.
Monthly contract
Predictable capacityA defined role on a month-to-month footing, reviewed each month. Handy when you want to scale up or down as campaigns change.
Project-based creative team
A defined outcomeA small team, say a brand designer, an illustrator and a motion editor, assembled for a launch or rebrand with a start and an end.
| Model | Who sets daily priorities | Scope is fixed by | Good for | Watch for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full-time dedicated | You | Role and duration | Continuous social, ad, listing or product work | Keep the queue fed; idle time is still paid time |
| Part-time or hourly | You | Agreed share or hours | Smaller or bursty backlogs | Turnaround on large pieces is slower; batch requests |
| Monthly contract | You | Monthly review | Seasonal peaks and changing campaigns | Agree notice and change terms in writing |
| Project-based team | Shared: you approve, the team sequences | Brief and deliverables list | Rebrands, launches, one-off sets | Changes outside the brief are discussed, not assumed |
How hiring works
From first call to first deliverable in six steps
How long each step takes depends on the role and on your own interview process, so we do not promise a fixed time to hire. What we do promise is that you see profiles and decide.
- Requirement callRole, skills, tools, seniority, duration and the kind of work in the queue.
- ShortlistWe send profiles with portfolios that match your category and tool stack.
- Interview and taskYou meet the designers and set a practical brief. You choose.
- OnboardingBrand guide, asset libraries, chat and tracker access, and a first small request.
- Work on your prioritiesThe designer works inside your workflow, and you review and direct as usual.
- Monthly reviewScope, workload and fit are reviewed each month, and the plan is adjusted.
What a good onboarding pack contains
- Logo files, colour values and approved fonts
- Examples of work you liked and work you rejected
- A naming and folder convention for deliverables
- Who approves what, and in which channel
- Licensed fonts and stock accounts, with who pays for each
The better the first pack, the faster the designer sounds like your brand. We help you assemble it on the onboarding call.
Which type of hire
Freelancer, in-house designer or a deployed resource from The Adroit
Each can be the right call. More filled dots mean more of that factor.
| Factor | Freelancer | In-house hire | Deployed resource (The Adroit) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Range of skills | Usually strong in one or two disciplines | One person's range, grown over time | Add motion, illustration or UI specialists beside the first hire |
| If the person is away or leaves | Work may stop with them | A gap while you recruit | Colleagues can pick up from the shared files and notes |
| Your management time | High: you brief and chase everything | High: hiring, training and review | Medium: you still direct and approve the work |
| Tools and licences | Their own, or yours | You buy and manage them | Stated as inside or outside scope when terms are agreed |
| Cost shape | Varies by person and job | Payroll, benefits and overheads | Agreed for the role and model after a scoping call |
| Control over daily work | Close, but they juggle other clients | Highest: they sit in your team | You set priorities; terms are in writing |
| Best when | A single, well-defined job | Design is core and constant, and you want to build a department | You want capacity and skill range without building the team yourself |
What drives the cost
Why we quote after a call, not from a price list
Two designers with the same job title can differ widely in what they cost to deploy. These are the factors that move a quote, so you can compare any offer like for like.
- Seniority: junior producer, mid-level designer or creative lead
- Discipline: static design, UI, illustration or motion and video
- Engagement model: full-time, part-time, monthly or project
- Volume and variety of formats in the queue
- Number of brands or sub-brands the person must keep apart
- Licences and stock assets, and who pays for them
- Duration and notice terms
- Whether a lead reviews work before it reaches you
Ask every provider to list what is inside and outside the quote. Our proposals do exactly that.
Files, ownership and confidentiality
What you should expect to own, and how to put it in writing
Source files, not only exports
Ask for layered PSD, AI, INDD, Figma and project files alongside the PNG, PDF and MP4 outputs, organised to your folder convention.
Rights to the work
Assignment of rights to what is made for you, and the handling of third-party fonts and stock, can be agreed in the contract. Have it written down.
Confidentiality
Unreleased campaigns, pricing and product images are sensitive. A non-disclosure agreement can be agreed in the contract before work begins.
More resources
Need other roles beside your designer?
The same deployment approach applies to four other kinds of resource. Pair a designer with the people who build, optimise and promote what they make.
Prefer a delivered outcome to a person on your team? See web development services, SEO services, PPC services or social media management.
Questions
FAQs
We do not publish rate cards, because two designers with the same title can cost very differently to deploy. The quote depends on seniority, the discipline (static design, UI, illustration, motion or video), full-time, part-time, monthly or project-based terms, the number of brands and formats, duration, and whether licences and stock assets are included. After a short requirement call we quote in writing with inclusions and exclusions listed, so you can compare it with any other offer line by line.
A freelancer is one person you brief, chase and replace yourself. A deployed resource is a designer who sits inside a larger team, so portfolio review, colleagues who can look at the work and shared files come with the person. You still direct the work. Which is better depends on how much management time you have and how many skills your queue needs.
Yes. After the requirement call we send profiles with portfolios, you speak to the designers you like, and you can set a short practical brief based on your own kind of work. You choose; we do not assign a person you have not met.
It depends on the role, how specialised the skills are and how long your own interview and task process takes, so we do not promise a fixed time to hire. What we can say is the order of events: requirement call, shortlist, interview and task, onboarding, then work on your priorities.
Typical tools are Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects and Premiere Pro, Figma, Canva and CorelDRAW. Tell us your stack and we shortlist people fluent in it. Whether software licences and stock-asset subscriptions are provided by you or covered in the quote is stated in the written terms.
Yes. The designer works inside your workflow: your tracker or chat, your brand guide, fonts and asset libraries, and your review steps. The more complete the onboarding pack, the faster the work sounds like your brand. We help you assemble that pack on the onboarding call.
Ownership of what is made for you, including how third-party fonts and stock images are handled, can be agreed in the contract, and we recommend writing it down before work starts. Ask for layered source files such as PSD, AI, INDD, Figma and project files alongside the exports, and for them to be delivered in the folder structure your team uses.
Where the role allows, yes. The usual models are a full-time dedicated resource, part-time or hourly capacity, a monthly contract and a project-based creative team. Part-time suits batched requests with clear briefs, while a full-time resource suits a constant queue. Terms are agreed per requirement.
Yes. Besides graphic designers, the roles include UI/UX, brand and identity, social media creative, motion graphics and video editing, packaging and print, illustration, presentation and pitch-deck design, ecommerce and product-image design, email and newsletter design, and web banner and ad creative design. You can also combine two or three into a small pod.
Yes. Our head office is in Navi Mumbai, with teams in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, and we work with businesses in India and overseas. Overlap with your working day, communication tools and contract details are agreed at kickoff for your situation.
Yes. The designer works to your brand rules and your client's brief, and confidentiality terms can be agreed in the contract before work begins. You review and approve everything under your own name.
Raise it as soon as you notice, or at the monthly review at the latest. We then look at the options together: clearer briefs, a different mix of work, a different role or a different person. The notice and change terms are part of the written agreement, so read them before you sign.
Day to day you see drafts and finals in your own channels, since the designer works in your workflow. Each month there is a review of scope, workload and fit with your team, and the plan is adjusted from there. We do not claim a fixed turnaround for every kind of request, because a logo and a thirty-second animation are different jobs.
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