Vetted UI/UX designers, brand and graphic designers, motion specialists and design-ops leads embedded with your team — starting from $6 per hour, with a 48-hour shortlist and 5-day free trial.
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Your design queue shouldn't be the reason releases slip. Zedtreeo gives you in-house-quality designers — embedded in your Figma, your brand system, your sprint cadence.
Share your product, brand system and sample briefs. We return 2–3 pre-vetted designers inside 48 hours — each tested against live design challenges, portfolio review and brand-fit screening.
A senior US product designer runs $140K+ fully loaded. A Zedtreeo equivalent starts at $960/month — you can staff a full design pod for less than one onshore hire.
We onboard into your Figma libraries, design tokens, component systems and brand guidelines — not a generic agency template. Your new designer is shipping in your file structure by week one.
Your designer joins standups, design reviews and sprint planning. Long retention (2–3+ years average) means the context compounds — unlike rotating freelancers.
Be honest — here's who wins with us and who doesn't.
Dedicated designers from Zedtreeo — 70–90% lower than local hiring, with zero recruitment fees, zero HR overhead, zero hidden costs.
Pre-vetted, role-ready skills — no ramp-up needed.
Your Designers plugs into your existing stack — no retraining, no migration, no downtime.
Here's what a designers actually costs you across the three options.
| Factor | Local Designers | Freelancer | Zedtreeo Designers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly Cost | $45 | $28 | $6/hr |
| Time to Hire | 6–10 weeks | 1–2 weeks | 48 hours |
| Dedicated Commitment | Yes | No | Yes |
| Vetting / Testing | You do it | Minimal | Done by us |
| Replacement | Rehire cycle | Find new one | Swap in days |
| Free Trial | None | Rare | 5-day free trial |
| HR / Payroll Overhead | Yours | 1099 handling | Ours |
| Annual Savings | Baseline | 20–40% | 70–90% |
A structured process that gets you a working hire in a week — not a month.
Real clients. Real outcomes. Real savings.
A fashion ecommerce brand had dated PDPs and flat CVRs. A 3-designer Zedtreeo pod rebuilt the PDP template, product imagery system and checkout flow — CVR doubled in 10 weeks.
Read case study →A B2B marketing agency was maxing out internal designers on client work. Zedtreeo embedded 4 designers — agency delivered 3× the SEO content assets without adding onshore seats.
Read case study →A mid-sized architecture practice needed faster 3D renders for client pitches. A Zedtreeo 3D + graphic designer duo took turnaround from 7 days to 2.5 days per project.
Read case study →Founders and COOs who scaled their teams with Zedtreeo design teams.
"My Zedtreeo designers are in every sprint review. They know our system better than some of my onshore hires did at month three. That's not normal for remote — that's the model working."
"We were turning away business because of bandwidth. Four Zedtreeo designers later, we onboarded two new retainer clients without hiring a single onshore role. Utilization is up, margins are up."
"Our design system was a mess. The Zedtreeo senior we hired rebuilt our Figma library and has been shipping product work ever since. Best design hire of the year and she's not even on payroll."
Everything operators ask before hiring a designers from Zedtreeo.
Remote designers at Zedtreeo start from $6/hour ($960/month, $11,520/year). Exact rate depends on specialization and seniority — a mid-level graphic designer sits at the entry tier, while a senior UX designer or motion lead sits higher. Total cost lands 70–90% below an equivalent onshore hire once you factor in benefits, recruiting fees and software seats.
We cover the full stack: UI/UX designers, product designers, graphic and brand designers, motion designers, illustrators, landing page and conversion designers, design ops, and video editors. We match on specialization first — a senior product designer won't be asked to spin out brochures, and a brand designer won't be retrofitted into a Figma audit.
Shortlist of 2–3 pre-vetted designers within 48 hours. Portfolio review and paid design challenge in week one, with most designers starting live work Monday of the following week. End-to-end from brief to first shipped deliverable is 7–10 business days.
Yes. During onboarding, we get your new designer into your Figma, FigJam, Notion and brand guidelines — not a generic agency template. They learn your component library, design tokens, naming conventions and approval workflow. Most are shipping inside your system by end of week one.
Either. Most clients start with 1–2 designers (a UX generalist or a brand/graphic hire) and scale to 3–5 once they see throughput. For agencies, a 4-person pod is common — UX, graphic, motion, and video. We'll recommend the structure that fits your roadmap, not a fixed package.
Mutual NDA at contract, IP assignment clause, ISO 27001-certified offices, VPN-only access to your Figma and brand assets, and disabled external drives. Zedtreeo designers sign the same confidentiality and IP agreements as your in-house team — your brand work stays yours.
Those platforms are freelance marketplaces — you manage sourcing, vetting, retention and quality. Zedtreeo is a dedicated designer you control but we handle talent ops, replacement and HR. Your designer stays 2–3+ years, learns your product deeply, and becomes a real team member — not a rotating contractor.
We run a 5-day free trial at the start. If style or fit isn't right, no bill. Post-trial, if a designer underperforms, we replace within 7–14 days at no additional cost. Our retention sits above industry averages because we pre-match on style, seniority and product type — not just software skills.
Get a curated shortlist in 48 hours. 5-day free trial. No long-term contract. Starting from $6 per hour.
Build out your full remote team, one specialist at a time.
