Senior Designer

Reports to: Associate Creative Director or Creative Director

Location and Timezone: Remote. North America or Latin America, friendly to EST

Works closely with: Creative, Production, Tech

The Role

The Senior Designer role at Active Theory is for an experienced practitioner who has moved beyond core execution into a position of project ownership and creative influence. You are expected to lead design tracks with a high degree of independence, translating complex briefs into cohesive visual systems. While you work closely with Creative Directors, you are the primary driver of the visual craft on your projects, ensuring excellence from concept to final delivery.

Core Responsibilities

Ideation

• Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with the team
• Ideation and concepting both individually and with the team
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
• Prepare concepts in static and animated forms
• Demonstrate value and understanding of 2D and 3D visual communication in conceptual work

Execution

• Find creative ways to solve user challenges (e.g. usability, findability)
• Mockup and design digital executions according to the highest industry standards
• Animate concepts, layouts, and user interface with high taste for contemporary
• Create designs by leading the look and feel of every experience, beginning with thorough research of the project domain, brand and client
• Use animation tools to produce special effects, 2D assets and complete, immersive, experiences
• Ability to integrate AI-driven tools into creative processes

Team Collaboration

• Assist in knowledge transfer of good design and animation practice and to other team members including providing guidance for junior designers and fellow designers
• Communicate status updates regularly with Producers and the broader project team(s)
• Collaborate within small-to-medium sized teams to resolve issues and dependencies to deliver to client expectations
• Participate in knowledge sharing and lessons learned sessions from project experiences

What Success Looks Like

• The work feels cohesive, intentional, is confidently designed and consistently meets highest industry standards
• Teammates experience optimistic collaboration and consistent quality of output
• Performance at conceptual through final delivery parts of the project