Specialist
designers who
slot straight into
your team.
We place senior creative people directly inside your organisation. Same tools, same standups, same Slack — working as if they were hired, without the overhead of a hire.
See who we've placed
Not an agency.
Not a hire.
Something better.
When you embed a Phaff designer, they join your organisation as a practitioner — not a vendor. They sit inside your team, follow your processes, and work to your goals. Phaff handles everything else so you never have to think about it.
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Four disciplines.One model.
WHO WE PLACE
We place senior designers across four creative disciplines. Each placement is director or lead level — experienced enough to integrate fast, skilled enough to add value from day one.
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UX/UI Designers
Product and interface designers embedded directly into engineering squads, product trios, or design teams. End-to-end design — from discovery through to developer-ready UI and design system governance.
Product
FinTech
E-Commerce
SaaS
Design Systems
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Brand & Graphic Designers
Senior brand designers embedded into marketing or creative teams. Visual identity management, campaign asset production, brand system development — director-level thinking applied to day-to-day output.
Marketing
Brand
Creative
Visual Identity
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Copywriters & Content Strategists
Strategic writers embedded inside comms, product, or marketing teams. UX copy, brand voice, content strategy, and campaign narrative — working in-team rather than briefed externally.
Comms
Product
Marketing
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Motion Designers
Animation and motion specialists embedded into product or marketing teams. Product micro-interactions, UI transitions, social content, and full campaign motion. Senior enough to direct as well as produce.
Product
Socials
Campaign
YOUR ORGANISATION
The brief, the context, the team
You provide access to your tools, processes, and team. Brief the designer directly — no account manager, no templates.
Embedded, senior, specialist
Joins your team as if hired. Attends standups, contributes to design reviews, works inside your Figma org. Senior enough to challenge and advise — not just execute.
PHAFF DESIGNER
YOUR TEAM
Business as usual
Your team works with the designer exactly as they would with a hire. No separate briefing process, no weekly agency calls. They're just in the team.
Flexible by design.
Not locked in.
An embedded placement scales with your actual workload. We set terms that give you genuine flexibility while giving the designer enough stability to do their best work.
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2 - 5
Flex to your actual need. Scale up during intense sprints, scale back when quieter. Agreed up front and adjustable.
DAYS PER WEEK
3 months
MINIMUM TERMS
Rolling month-to-month after that. Long enough for real ramp and value — short enough that you're never locked in.
4 weeks
NOTICE PERIOD
Standard notice on either side. Not a permanent hire — no three-month exits, no garden leave headaches.
Senior talent.
Without the overhead
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No onboarding drag
Senior talent integrates fast — contributing from day one, not week six. A director-level designer doesn't need hand-holding. They've seen this environment before. Most embedded designers are delivering real output within the first week.
Flex up or down
Scale your creative capacity to match demand — without permanent headcount decisions. Three days in a quiet month, five during a product launch. No HR conversations, no redundancy risk, no budget freeze awkwardness.
Senior only
Every placement is director or lead level. No juniors learning on your time. No account managers in the middle. You get the person — and only the person — you were sold. Every Phaff designer has 10+ years of senior experience.
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