Designer

Sway Creative Labs•Norfolk, VA

13d•$60,000 - $75,000•Remote

About The Position

Sway Creative Labs is seeking a systems-minded Designer capable of conceptualizing and scaling designs. This role involves setting the visual direction for campaigns and building Figma systems to efficiently produce on-brand variations. The position is designed for high-volume, multi-channel, and social-first work, requiring the designer to treat scale as a design problem, utilize templates and component systems in Figma, and leverage AI tooling for speed and quality. This is a hands-on role at an independent agency where the designer will own the visual output and contribute to shaping the design and production infrastructure. The ideal candidate has a broad range of skills, a strong visual point of view, fluency in social media, and the technical ability to build scalable systems. Experience with video and animation is a plus.

Requirements

3+ years of design experience, agency setting preferred, with a portfolio spanning both original concept work and high-volume production.
Deep proficiency in Figma: components, variants, auto-layout, and variables/tokens.
Strong command of Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
Demonstrated fluency designing social-native creative across platforms.
Hands-on use of Claude and/or other AI tooling to build or scale design work.
Solid design fundamentals: typography, color, composition, and visual hierarchy.
Ability to produce at volume without a drop in quality, with strong file and version discipline.

Nice To Haves

Motion and animation capability in After Effects, including templating video units.
Working knowledge of HTML and CSS sufficient to communicate effectively with developers.
Understanding of print production specifications and vendor requirements.
Familiarity with digital accessibility standards (WCAG / ADA Level AA).
Background on healthcare, tourism, food/beverage, legal, or CPG accounts.

Responsibilities

Set and execute the visual direction for campaigns across digital, social, display, print, and out-of-home.
Design social-native creative built for each platform's format and pace.
Bring a point of view to concept development and push for better execution.
Build large, inventory-style creative systems: full display unit sets, social unit systems, and localized or market-specific variants.
Build and maintain reusable Figma component libraries, variants, auto-layout, and variables/tokens.
Turn approved concepts into template systems any team member can run without breaking the design.
Version, name, and organize files to convention so the right asset is always findable.
Use Claude and AI-assisted tooling as a core part of your workflow: generating and populating variants, drafting layout and copy options, automating repetitive build steps, and running QA passes.
Write prompts specific enough to get usable output, and hold the quality line.
Bring new tools and techniques back to the team.
Design for Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and emerging formats with an eye for what actually performs.
Work at social speed when a moment is live, and to campaign standards when it counts.
Templating and versioning motion and social video units in After Effects, if you have it.

Benefits

Three Optima Health Plan options; Sway covers 80% of employee premiums and 50% of dependent premiums
Sway pays 100% of employee's United Concordia Dental Plan
1:1 match on the first 3% of pay; 50% match on the following 2% for 401(k)
15 Paid Vacation Days
17 Paid Holidays
Two-Hour Windows for personal appointments at the start (9–11am) and end (3–5pm) of the workday
100% remote work
Year-end performance bonus eligibility
Additional bonuses available based on individual and company performance
100% reimbursement for at least one approved course, workshop, or conference annually