Senior Designer

Seeking Rock Star Senior Designer!

Job Description:

Us: Start-up boutique design agency with an obsession for brilliantly simple design, a love of wicked problems and a cool client list from chocolate to babies to lipstick.

You: Besides being an insanely skilled design professional, you’re a perfect combo of:

• 28% Passion and Drive
• 10% Coffee (or Tea) Addiction
• 18% Social Media Craving
• 44% Curiosity

As an integral member of a fun, talented, and nimble team, you will be required to wear a number of hats. One day you might focus on delivering competitive assessments and designing brand identity for a Fortune 500 client. On another day, you might be leading an innovation session with an in-house design team, or conducting rapid prototyping exercises with consumers. You will report directly to the company Principals, all while maintaining a high degree of autonomy and getting paid to do work that you love.

What Success Looks Like:

• Your team members and clients love you, you get them, you’re invaluable to them. 
• We’ll have built a design agency that sets the bar and has jealousy-inducing work to show for it. 
• We’re known as the experts in designing brands that are easy to recognize, easy to recall, and easy to love. 
• Your clients say you “are a proactive business partner first, who just happens to be really great at design”. 
• We’ve gotten smarter and more effective in how we know the market, approach ideation, execute gorgeous design, and collaborate with other creative agencies. 
• You’re learning like crazy and having a lot of fun!

Requirements:

• Fluent in the language of design, with a design degree and killer portfolio to prove it. 
• Knows what a GIF is, and is a wizard with Adobe CS (PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat) and MS Office Suite. 
• Loves trends and the practice of design in a deep, kind of obsessive, way. 
• Have been at it professionally for at least 5 years. 
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely. 
• Enough said. Dislikes complexity and the status quo. 
• Loves to experiment and isn’t afraid to fail. 
• Is in, or can be in Chicago.