Hiring Designers for Your Startup: A Real Look at What ManyPixels Delivers

Startups move fast. And when your product’s just starting to take shape, design is usually somewhere between “critical” and “we’ll fix it later.” But let’s be honest: first impressions matter. 

People will judge your business by how it looks: your brand identity, your websites design, even your pitch deck. So when it comes time to hire designers for startup needs, the question isn’t if you need design. It’s how to get good design without slowing down or burning through your budget.

TL;DR

ManyPixels works especially well for startups that need fast, flexible, and consistently good design without hiring full-time. Their portfolio includes work with early-stage fintech apps, e-learning platforms, and direct-to-consumer brands, and their flat monthly rate means startups can get everything from a homepage to an investor deck, all without chasing freelancers or wrangling contracts.

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Most people don’t start a company because they love kerning fonts or picking hex codes. That’s where we come in.

What Kind of Startup Design Are We Talking About?

Some startups come to us with a brand already in place, but they need help making it sharper, more consistent, or ready for a new audience. Others show up with nothing but a name and an idea. 

Take Leverage Health, a telehealth company with a clean, minimalist brand direction. They needed something that felt modern but approachable, which, for a health-tech startup, can make or break trust with users. 

Or Referbility, who came to us needing a sleek web design for their homepage, marketing assets for their launch, and a sleek UI. Our team handled the full website flow, matching styles and bringing their vision for public talent crowdsourcing to life.

There’s also MatchCasts, a highly niche podcast advertising platform. Their concept was strong, but their branding and platform UI didn’t reflect it. We worked on an entirely new platform flow, with color palettes, logo refinement, and presentation deck design. The results? Brighter, more structured branding that felt as engaging as their ambition..

And these are just a few! You can scroll our Dribbble feed or Our Work page and see the same theme: companies that didn’t need another thing to manage. They needed great design, quickly, with as little back-and-forth as possible. That’s the model we’ve built around.

Hiring a Designer Is Hard When You’re in Build Mode

When you're still proving product-market fit or raising your seed round, you probably don’t have time to recruit, vet, and manage a designer full time. You’re definitely not budgeting $80k+ a year for a full-stack design hire. 

And freelancers? They’re great when they work out, but they come with the usual uncertainties: Will they hit the deadline? Will they disappear mid-project? Will you need to explain brand guidelines from scratch every time?

It’s one thing to hire designers for startup work. It’s another thing to do it over and over again for pitch decks, landing pages, product mockups, onboarding flows, and everything in between.

We work with a lot of companies right in this stage. It’s why we structured ManyPixels to feel like a plug-and-play design team: flexible enough to follow your pivots, fast enough to meet your launch deadlines, and consistent enough that you don’t have to explain what “your brand blue” means every week.

What Kinds of Design Work Can Startups Get?

We’ve helped startups and highly established brands alike create/recreate their brand identity from scratch. We’re talking logos, color schemes, type pairings, and expanding it across touchpoints like business cards, slide decks, and web headers. 

But most projects go beyond just branding. In fact, the majority of our startup clients ask for web design that connects the dots: UI screens for new features, mobile-first homepage layouts, onboarding experiences, and pricing pages. One day, it’s a blog hero illustration. Next, a full UX design for an MVP dashboard.

With ManyPixels’ monthly design subscription, you get a lot, and we keep things flexible. Some companies come in hot with ten projects in mind. Others just need a couple of design tasks per month to keep their content polished. You can scale up or pause your subscription at any time, and because it’s a flat rate, you don’t need to nickel-and-dime every revision or layout option.

It’s all about supporting your design process, not slowing it down.

What Startups Say About the Experience

We are a startup based in Singapore. ManyPixels has been of great help for all our illustrations, web graphics and advertising materials.  - Thomas Partoune

As a startup company great design and illustration work can cost prohibitive, ManyPixels provides an affordable, professional and creative solution. - Gary Turner

As a small startup building the marketing team from the grounds up, we thought we're in a dire situation when our sole designer left. However, having Manypixles at our side made it a non-issue. - Ron G.

What Makes It Work

It’s not magic, just the process. You submit a request, your dedicated designer works on it, and you get your first draft in about one to two business days. If something needs changing, revisions are fast and painless. If you have Figma links or brand docs, we’re happy to work within those. If you don’t? We’ll help you build them.

We also don’t force you to speak “designer.” If all you’ve got is a screenshot and a message that says “Can you make this suck less?”, we can take it from there. Many of our startup clients don’t have product managers, marketers, or brand strategists yet. They just need visuals that work, quickly, across a wide range of use cases. That’s what we’re built to deliver.

Some stay for a few months. Others stick around long term and scale with us as their teams grow. Either way, we’re here to give you great design, without the bloat.

Wrapping Up

If you're trying to hire designers for startup projects, the truth is: you probably don't want to hire in the traditional sense. You want the results that come with strong design: a cohesive look, user-friendly layouts, and assets that make your brand feel credible, without the delays, costs, or process bottlenecks that usually come with it.

That’s what we offer: fast, consistent, startup-tested design that keeps up with the rest of your momentum.

And if you're not sure what to prioritize, we can help with that too. You don't need to know everything. You just need to know where to start.