Careers & freelance

Small studio, senior only, real work.

Ikonik Studio hires senior digital operators for full-time, freelance and retainer roles. No junior seats, no account-handler track, no "growing our team by 40% this year". Small, senior, deliberate — that's the whole model.

How we hire

Small on purpose. Growing slowly.

We deliberately don't scale headcount to chase revenue. Growing the team by 5x in a year is how studios turn into agencies — junior teams doing senior work under a big brand, quality curve dropping, founders spending all day on account calls instead of shipping.

When we do add someone — full-time, freelance, or on retainer — it's because we need real senior capacity, not a warm body. If your work is strong and you'd rather ship than manage, we want to hear from you even if there's no open role listed.

Roles & capacity

What we usually hire for.

Nothing is always open. We add capacity in these areas when we need it — often on freelance-first, moving to retainer or full-time if the work fits.

Design

Senior brand & digital designer

Full identity systems, editorial layout, UI at senior level. Figma-native, brand-book confident, comfortable talking directly to founders.

Full-timeFreelanceJHB / Remote
Development

Senior full-stack & WordPress developer

Hand-coded custom WordPress themes, WooCommerce, vanilla JS/CSS. No page builders, ever. Custom PHP, custom checkout, custom everything.

FreelanceRetainerRemote-friendly
Growth

Senior SEO & paid growth operator

Technical SEO, GA4, Google Ads, Meta Ads. Server-side tracking, real revenue attribution, and no black-box agency reporting.

FreelanceRetainerRemote
AI & automation

AI engineer / automation builder

Claude, OpenAI, WhatsApp Business API, n8n and custom automation. Production deployments with evals, guardrails and cost controls.

FreelanceRetainerRemote
Copy

Senior editorial copywriter

Taglines, landing pages, longform editorial. Voice-first writing — no template generic. Founder interview comfort essential.

FreelanceRetainerRemote
Video & motion

Motion designer / video editor

Brand films, motion identity, product demos, social-first cutdowns. Rolling reviews on Frame.io, senior craft essential.

FreelanceProject-basedRemote
Send us your work

Think you'd fit? Say hi.

Send us your portfolio, GitHub, LinkedIn or whatever you've been shipping. No cover letter needed — the work speaks.