Designer

About the role

As a Designer at Critical Mass, you will contribute to work for some of the world's most recognized brands, from concept through execution, across various channels. Your role involves bringing a keen aesthetic eye, focus on craft, and a genuine obsession with how things look, feel, and move to all aspects of your work.

Responsibilities

• Concept and execute high-quality design across brand, campaign, and digital experiences — from early exploration to final delivery
• Apply rigorous craft across typography, color, hierarchy, composition, interaction, and motion
• Work within design systems, component libraries, and visual frameworks, applying them with accuracy and consistency
• Interpret briefs and translate direction into well-crafted visual solutions
• Create mood boards and visual research to explore and communicate creative direction
• Compose and retouch images that communicate ideas clearly and present products at their best
• 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
• Share and articulate design decisions clearly in internal reviews
• Partner with UX, copy, strategy, and engineering throughout the creative process
• Contribute to a culture of craft, feedback, and continuous improvement

Requirements

• 1–2+ years of professional design experience at an agency or in-house creative team
• A portfolio that demonstrates craft, attention to detail, and a strong design sensibility
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
• Hands-on experience with generative AI and text-based AI tools
• Familiarity with design systems and the ability to work accurately within them
• A sharp, curious aesthetic sensibility — shaped by genuine engagement with culture, art, fashion, film, music, architecture, or whatever you're obsessed with
• Motion Design Skills (preferred)
• Figma prototyping skills (preferred)

Qualifications

You have a keen aesthetic eye, a focus on craft, and a genuine obsession with how things look, feel, and move. You stay close to culture, notice things others don't, and bring that into everything you make — because you're the kind of designer who cares more than is strictly necessary.

Skills

• Adobe Creative Suite
• Figma
• Generative AI tools
• Text-based AI tools
• Design systems
• Motion Design
• Figma prototyping

Benefits

Chicago: $65,000-$75,000

Pay

Chicago: $65,000-$75,000

Schedule

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.

Benefits

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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For US Job Seekers: Omnicom is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.