Senior Designer

Instrument is a remote-first digital product and brand experience agency with over 200 talented people across four teams, each focused on a core offering and dedicated to producing best-in-class work. Our shift to a fully remote model has amplified our ability to foster creativity, build strong relationships, and engage with clients in dynamic ways. This flexibility has not only strengthened our company culture but also enabled us to embrace diverse perspectives. We remain deeply committed to career advancement, personal support, and ensuring a healthy work-life balance for everyone we hire.

Instrument partners with the world’s most ambitious companies to create transformational change through best-in-class digital brand and marketing projects. From day one, we’ve been committed to making this a place where people can make the best work of their career — sustainably. 

Designers at Instrument work on focused teams, together with strategists, writers, producers, and developers. Collaboration is more than a buzzword here; you’ll be working closely with colleagues and clients that have diverse perspectives and expertise. 

We’re looking for a visual and digital designer who loves to bring clarity to complex concepts and design problems. You’re highly strategic and passionate about design, storytelling, and continually pushing to evolve the brand and marketing space. You use any visual means necessary to communicate ideas, and you’re willing to start anywhere, with anything, and iterate your way to the right outcome without being precious about any one solution. You connect everything you do to the goals of the project, never getting distracted by something that doesn’t tie back. You do your best work when collaborating with strategists, writers, technologists, producers, and clients. You’ll be a key person within the project team to uphold the quality of the design work.

What You'll Do

• Deliver smart solutions to the right problems — defined by insights and data for web, mobile, or multiple contexts, from digital to physical experiences
• You’ll apply your design skills across a diverse range of marketing, content, campaign, and brand projects for wide variety of client types and sizes 
• Lead the creation of unified visual design systems across marketing touchpoints that are contextual, clear, and beautiful
• Use storytelling, facilitation, and insights about users to create empathy and guide teams
• Raise the bar through your design work, facilitation, and client collaboration
• Work on a multi-disciplinary team in a highly collaborative and communicative environment with diverse perspectives and expertise

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated experience creating exceptional marketing, campaign, & brand output, with your role clearly defined on each project in your portfolio
• Rock solid foundation in visual design, content creation, art direction, and brand design, with a strong understanding of motion in your work 
• Experience working with photographers and helping concept and lead photoshoots
• Strategic problem solving skills and the capacity to distill complex information into meaningful concepts or ideas
• Strong verbal and visual presentation skills that get across the process, approach, and impact of your design 
• A mind for best practices, paired with a willingness to try something just crazy enough to work
• Ability to move quickly to prove out ideas, and a learning mindset
• Expertise in current industry tools with the ability to adapt to new technologies
• Strong sense of ethics, and responsibility in understanding the way the work we do influences the world around us 
• Curiosity, humility, and a passion for doing great work

Pay Range

• The expected pay range for this position is $85,000-$110,000 for our base US Region 3*. We have three regional pay ranges that are adjusted for cost of living (US1 +15%, US2 +7.5%, US3 Base), learn more about our pay philosophy and cost of living adjustments

What We Offer

Flexible, Hybrid Work Environment

Great Compensation with Annual Reviews (Learn more about our Pay Philosophy)

Annual Profit Sharing

401(k) Matching with Immediate Vesting

Robust Medical, Vision, and Accident Insurance

Generous Paid Holidays and unlimited PTO

Sabbaticals

Monthly Wellbeing Stipend

Career Management and Leadership Training