At Interactive Strategies, we don’t just build brands, websites, and marketing campaigns — we help tell stories that matter. Our work supports organizations tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges, from critical health issues to protecting the environment to saving animals. We’re looking for a Senior Digital Designer (Web & UX) who wants to make an impact by crafting experiences that create emotional connections and inspire action.
In this role, you’ll be hands-on in shaping how these causes engage their audiences. Everything we do is rooted in deep strategic thinking informed by discovery and research, and you’ll play a key part in gathering insights and translating them into meaningful creative solutions. You’ll help clients refresh or reimagine their brands and deliver highly conceptual, strategically grounded designs and UX deliverables.
You’ll be a senior member of a seasoned team, mentoring, inspiring, and collaborating with others as you contribute to some of our most high-profile and challenging engagements. Your talent, experience, and work ethic will help elevate the work we do every day.
Qualities You Bring to the Table
- Creative. You come with imagination and fresh ideas; you create works of art that inspire and engage.
- Strategic. You deliver more than just great design; you craft elegant user experiences that meet our clients’ important goals.
- Innovative. You push boundaries and implement innovative techniques.
- Well-spoken. You can sells your designs and ideas to clients and stand behind your ideas.
- Committed. You’re committed to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment.
- Passionate. You love what you do and are looking to work on a team with that same passion.
- Curious. You’re constantly seeking out new techniques and approaches to advance your skills.
- Friendly. You’re a people person who enjoys collaborating and works well with others.
Requirements
- You have been in UX and web design for 5+ years and can hit the ground running
- You maintain your own website portfolio with a large collection of inspiring work samples
- You have the ability to design in a variety of styles, and execute unique yet functional solutions to websites’ most common problems
- You are adept at developing logos and visual brand systems
- You have experience working with and developing component-based design systems in Figma, and working with more advanced functionality like auto-layout, libraries, styles, tokens and variables.
- You are comfortable building nuanced creative narratives and confidently pitching work to executive teams.
- You are collaborative and have demonstrated experience working with writers and strategists to develop holistic creative solutions
- You are multi-dimensional. In addition to your design skills, we’d love for you to be great at something else... illustration, typography, motion design, front-end coding. Show us your stuff!
Benefits
We have a simple motto when it comes to company culture, "Everyone deserves to come to work and be happy." This means a few things: (1) we care as much about quality as we do about budgets, (2) we find the strengths in each employee and nurture them, (3) we encourage a culture that values innovation and creative freedom, and (4) we want you to have fun while you’re at the office. We may be an agency, but we understand that you have a life outside of work.
We allow our employees creative freedom. We treat them with respect. We value their opinions. In that spirit, we offer the following benefits:
- Company-sponsored health, vision and dental insurance
- Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Profit sharing
- 4 weeks of vacation/sick time from day one; 5+ weeks at year 3
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability
- Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
- 11 paid holidays
- 401k with company match
- New business referral bonus
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible work schedule
- Pre-tax DC Metro SmartBenefits
Annual Compensation: $88,500 - $110,000
A Little About Us
We're a well-respected interactive agency in downtown Washington, DC, known for deep strategic thinking. We strive to cultivate a collaborative, innovative environment where people feel valued, respected, and free to push creative boundaries—all while finding balance between work, home, and life outside the office. Interactive Strategies is a certified LGBTBE business and equal opportunity employer that values workplace diversity. We believe that diverse voices and viewpoints are critical to producing great work and helping our clients represent themselves effectively.
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What We Do
nteractive Strategies is a boutique digital agency whose strength lies in understanding the complex relationship that exists between strategy, design, content, usability, technology and marketing. By addressing each of these areas equally, we create meaningful web experiences that provide a measurable return for our clients. Each principal at Interactive Strategies comes from a large agency background where they helped shape online strategies for leading firms, including First USA/Bank One, DuPont, Accenture, Bacardi, Budget/Avis, Royal Caribbean, Ford and more. Now working together, each member of Interactive Strategies’ team is committed to providing superior client service and attention to detail.
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