Senior Designer

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $90K/yrFull time

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Description

Agency
Critical Mass
Job Function
Creative
Job Subfunction
Design
Job Description
As a Senior Designer at Critical Mass, you bring a sharp aesthetic eye, deep craft, and a genuine obsession with how things look, feel, and move. You'll design for some of the world's most recognized brands — from concept through execution, across channels, at scale — delivering the kind of customer experiences that are hard to forget.
You know your tools cold, your references deep, and your standards high — because you stay close to culture, notice things others don't, and bring that into everything you make.
You Will
Concept and execute high-quality design across brand, campaign, and digital experiences — from early exploration to final delivery
Apply rigorous craft: typography, color, hierarchy, composition, interaction and motion
Build and contribute to scalable design systems, component libraries, and visual frameworks
Translate complex briefs into clear, compelling visual solutions
Prototype interactions and experiences in Figma
Use generative AI tools (image, video, audio) as active parts of your creative process
Apply text-based AI to accelerate ideation, concepting, and iteration
Stay current on emerging tools and bring new capabilities to the team
Present and defend design decisions clearly to creative teams and clients
Partner with UX, copy, strategy, and engineering throughout the creative process
Contribute to a culture of craft, feedback, and continuous improvement
You Have
3+ years of professional design experience at an agency or in-house creative team
A portfolio that demonstrates range, craft, and a strong point of view
Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
Hands-on experience with generative AI and text-based AI tools
Deep knowledge of design systems — building them, scaling them, evolving them
A sharp, informed aesthetic sensibility — shaped by genuine engagement with culture, art, fashion, film, music, architecture, or whatever you're obsessed with
Strong Motion Design Skills (preferred)
Figma prototyping skills (preferred)
The ability to work across multiple projects, manage your own time, and deliver
Chicago: $75,000-$90,000
Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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, Chicago: $75,000-$90,000
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Critical Mass

Critical Mass is a team of 1,900 inspired folks based in 13 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients. We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

Founded in 1996
Calgary, Alberta, CAN
1.8K employees (728 in marketing)