Senior Designer

Samba•San Francisco, CA

58d•Onsite

About The Position

Samba is a media intelligence company that provides real-time, large-scale insights into what the world is watching, reading, and thinking across all screens. Their data, gathered with the consent of over a billion people, creates a comprehensive picture of consumer attention used by major brands for decision-making. The company seeks a Senior Designer to work at the intersection of design craft and AI, utilizing tools like Claude Code and Claude Design alongside traditional design software. This role involves translating complex data and technology concepts into visual stories and shaping the brand's presence across all touchpoints. The designer will be part of a dynamic creative team with high visibility and impact, working on meaningful projects rather than templated requests.

Requirements

7+ years of professional design experience, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong conceptual thinking, visual storytelling, and creative problem-solving across brand, web, and campaign work.
AI-forward by default, genuinely comfortable and fluent using Claude Code and Claude Design as part of your actual design workflow, not just aware of them.
Expert-level skills in Figma, plus solid working fluency in Google Suite.
Animation experience, with real exposure to AI-driven animation and video-generation tools. You know how to direct and refine output, not just prompt and hope.
Strong data visualization design ability.
Experience developing brand and marketing creative across digital, social, video, and experiential formats.
Excellent communication skills. You can present your work, integrate feedback from multiple stakeholders, and explain your thinking clearly.
Self-directed and well-organized. You manage your own time and keep projects moving without close oversight.
A sharp eye for detail and a high bar for craft.
Experience with Framer.
Degree in design, fine arts, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Deeper motion/animation background (After Effects, Lottie, CSS/JS animation).
Experience designing for social-first formats.

Responsibilities

Design high-impact creative across brand, web, campaign, social, presentation, event, and demand-gen formats.
Use Claude Code and Claude Design daily to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and production.
Build and evolve design systems in Figma that scale across a growing brand.
Design and animate motion content, with a focus on AI-assisted animation tools and workflows (Runway, Midjourney video, Higgsfield, or similar) alongside traditional motion craft.
Turn complex data into clear, engaging visual narratives through compelling data visualization.
Design polished presentations and sales materials with strong attention to detail and narrative structure.
Contribute to the Samba website and campaign builds, working within Framer and modern web/design tooling.
Use Google Suite (Slides, Docs, Sheets) fluently for day-to-day collaboration, drafts, and stakeholder-facing work.
Manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales, Product, and Leadership.
Stay current with design trends, emerging AI tools, and workflow innovations that can improve the team's output.