AI Visual Designer

This is a full-time, work from home role.

We are looking for a graphic designer with experience in image and video generation using AI tools like Nano Banana Pro, Midjourney, Sora / Veo etc. He/she should have atleast 1-1.5 years of work experience in a graphic design studio.

About the firm:

Pause Design is a boutique graphic design agency that intervenes in brand identity design, packaging design, print & publication design and brand communication design.

Essential info:

• Salary: INR 40,000 per month (no tax deduction).
• 30 days of paid leave in a year. No sandwich leaves policy. No cap on number of consecutive days.
• Working days: Monday to Friday.
• Full-time, work-from-home.
• Reports to: Director.

Role summary:

Youll create photoreal, brand-aligned images and short videos that feel indistinguishable from a real shootfor websites and performance creatives.

This is not AI art. This is art direction + design craft + production discipline, using modern gen tools and finishing in Adobe.

Youll work across products and servicesso you need to be good at both product/garment realism and human lifestyle storytelling.

What youll do:

• Generate branded photoreal images for:
• Website hero banners
• Lifestyle imagery
• Product visualization
• Social ads and website creatives
• Generate short photoreal videos (520s typical), including:
• Shot ideation (camera angle, framing, lighting)
• Prompting + iterations
• Basic motion finishing and exports
• Maintain consistency across a set:
• Same subject/garment/environment across multiple angles
• Controlled variations (lighting, pose, crop, background) without drift
• Finish to production quality in Adobe:
• Retouching and compositing
• Color correction and realism checks (shadows, reflections, skin, fabric)
• Typography overlays and layout for ad formats
• Exporting for web/social specs
• Build and manage an internal system:
• Reference boards (lighting, styling, composition)
• Prompt recipes + versioning
• Asset organization and naming conventions

Quality bar (non-negotiable):

• Outputs must look like a real shoot: believable skin, fabric behavior, proportions, lighting physics, and camera logic.
• Minimal AI tells (warped hands, broken seams, inconsistent logos, weird reflections, uncanny faces, etc.).
• Brand consistency across all assets.

Required skills:

• Must have a bachelors degree in graphic design or visual communication from an institute of repute.
• Solid fundamentals: composition, layout, typography, color, hierarchy.
• Strong eye for photorealism (you can spot fake lighting, wrong shadows, odd anatomy).
• Working proficiency in Photoshop + at least basic proficiency in After Effects/Premiere Pro (or willingness to ramp fast).
• Ability to follow creative direction precisely and iterate quickly without losing control.
• Comfort with structured workflows: references generations selects polish exports.

Nice to have (not required):

• Experience with apparel realism (drape, seams, waistbands, texture behavior).
• Basic motion design polish (clean type, transitions, pacing).
• Familiarity with 3D mockups (Blender/C4D) or product rendering.
• Experience creating ad variants systematically (1:1, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9).

What to submit (application):

• Portfolio link with 612 samples showing:
• Photoreal people + lifestyle scenes
• Apparel/product visualization work
• At least 12 short videos

Send this and an introduction to You will receive a response within the next 5 business days.

Desired work values and expectations:

• Be punctual.
• Be presentable.
• Be patient.
• Be helpful.
• Never cut corners.
• Speak up in discussions on brand.
• Be comfortable with abstract ideas and open ends.
• Do not stop at good enough, or, the most obvious answer to a problem.
• Expect and enjoy questioning of your methods, thoughts and design considerations.
• Think first, do later. Avoid the bias to fire up a software and start making shapes.
• Enjoy talking about graphic design work.
• Enjoy talking about typefaces.
• Enjoy taking about publication and print design.
• Co-think on brand position, personality and facets of interest.
• Visually interpret the brand within the boundaries of the problem, the message and the medium. While doing so, constantly uphold a high, international standard in your work and measure your output against it.