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Senior Designer

RemoteRemoteFull TimeSeniorPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship availableHidden Gem · Himalayas

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Required skills

Senior Designer
Remote
EST
Creative Director
Associate Creative Director
Production
Tech
project ownership
creative influence
visual systems

Nice to have

contemporary animation
optimistic collaboration
consistent quality

Role summary

Active Theory is seeking a Senior Designer with a strong track record in project ownership and creative influence. This remote role, open to candidates in North America or Latin America (EST friendly), requires leading design tracks independently and translating complex briefs into cohesive visual systems. The Senior Designer will be the primary driver of visual craft, ensuring excellence from concept to delivery, and integrating AI tools into creative processes. Responsibilities include ideation, concepting, mockup design, animation, and providing guidance to junior designers. Success is measured by cohesive, intentional, and high-standard design work and optimistic team collaboration.

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

Originally posted on Himalayas

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