Senior Designer

Job Summary

A Senior Designer at Critical Mass brings a sharp aesthetic eye, deep craft, and a genuine obsession with how things look, feel, and move. They design for some of the world's most recognized brands, applying rigorous craft and staying close to culture to deliver memorable customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Concept and execute high-quality design across brand, campaign, and digital experiences
• 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
• 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

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional design experience at an agency or in-house creative team
• 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, scaling, and evolving them
• A sharp, informed 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)

Benefits

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.