Senior Designer

Nen Creative•New York, NY

29d

About The Position

Nen Creative partners with technology startups to launch ideas through branding and storytelling. The company has worked with founders and institutions including Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, Cursor, Mercor, Listen Labs, Tech Week, and Cartesia. It is growing quickly and seeks ambitious people to help build the company. The Senior Designer is a hands-on role creating brand and digital work for technology companies. The designer brings exceptional craft and conceptual thinking, and owns meaningful portions of projects from early exploration through final delivery. Work spans brand identities, websites, campaigns, and launch experiences, including developing ideas and visual systems that go beyond obvious solutions. The designer collaborates with creative leadership, project managers, strategists, developers, and other designers, and works directly with clients. They present concepts, explain creative decisions, respond thoughtfully to feedback, and help move projects toward strong outcomes. The role is suited to someone who wants to produce ambitious work, move quickly, push creative boundaries, and help raise the studio’s standards.

Requirements

3–7 years of experience as a designer.
Exceptional design craft and taste, supported by a strong portfolio demonstrating typography, composition, visual systems, identity work, and digital design.
Strong conceptual thinking and the ability to turn concepts into cohesive visual systems, not just execute layouts.
High ownership and reliability; the ability to carry important work through, remain calm under pressure, and work independently without needing follow-up.
Comfort presenting work, explaining creative thinking, receiving feedback, and navigating client conversations professionally.
Ability to move between big-picture creative thinking and detailed execution.
Ambition in craft, curiosity about design and culture, and a drive to make work distinctive.
Willingness to work beyond a strictly 9–5 mindset.

Nice To Haves

Experience within a strong branding, design, or creative agency environment.

Responsibilities

Create work across brand identity, visual systems, websites, campaigns, and launch experiences, with a high level of taste, detail, and polish.
Develop distinctive creative directions from early exploration through fully realized systems; challenge conventions and create ownable, memorable solutions.
Own projects and workstreams from concept through delivery, manage work effectively, anticipate next steps, and ensure details are handled.
Present work clearly and confidently to clients, explain creative decisions, respond thoughtfully to feedback, and build trust with founders and senior stakeholders.
Collaborate with creative leadership, strategists, developers, project managers, and designers; provide thoughtful feedback and actively contribute to critiques.
Help improve the quality of the studio’s work, creative process, and presentation; bring new references, ideas, techniques, and perspectives to the team.