Freelance Senior Designer

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Chicago, IL
Senior level
AdTech • Marketing Tech
The Role
As a Senior Designer, you will lead the design process for digital marketing campaigns, creating visually compelling assets while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will review final deliverables, ensure alignment with brand guidelines, and mentor junior designers while keeping up with industry trends.
Summary Generated by Built In

As a Senior Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the visual execution of marketing assets for our top-tier global clients. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to create engaging digital campaigns that resonate with audiences and drive performance. You live and breathe design, and have demonstrated mastery over graphic design fundamentals, brand identity, digital thinking, and design systems.

You will:

  • Lead the design process for digital marketing campaigns, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and campaign objectives.
  • Create visually compelling assets that align to project goals and overall creative direction, fluid templates and our client's high standards.
  • Collaborate with creative directors, design directors, writers, strategists, marketing science, creative engineers, and production designers to explore concepts and iterate on design layouts.
  • Prepare for creative reviews by organizing concepts and presentation materials.
  • Present persuasively and clearly articulate design rationale for internal teams.
  • Review final deliverables with an exacting eye, ensuring that layout, images, and typography are flawless.
  • Stay updated on industry trends and best practices, bringing innovative ideas to the table.
  • Mentor junior designers, providing guidance and support to help them grow their skills.
  • Continually seek opportunities to refine design thinking and improve workflows.

You have:

  • 5+ years of experience in digital design, preferably in a marketing agency setting.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing your expertise in design for digital marketing, branding, and the formal elements of design, including typography, layout, and motion.
  • Ability to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced, creative workplace and to deliver quality design at a high volume in a tight timeframe.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
  • Proficiency in digital creative tools including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and Keynote. Bonus points for experience with After Effects.
  • Passion for culture and a keen eye for current trends in the industry.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to [email protected].

We are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within our pool of candidates, with a target of achieving at least 50% representation from underrepresented communities.

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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If Canada based: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/finance/consumer-affairs.html
If U.K. based: https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights
If Costa Rica based: https://www.consumo.go.cr/educacion_consumidor/consejos_practicos.aspx 

Top Skills

Adobe Creative Suite
After Effects
Figma
Keynote
The Company
Chicago, IL
989 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

Critical Mass is a digital experience design agency with a relentless focus on the customer. Founded in Calgary in 1996, we have steadily expanded into a group of over 950 people working in 11 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and South America.

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