Senior Designer

Stagwell Global•Minneapolis, MN

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

A Senior Designer at Colle McVoy is a systems thinker, visual storyteller, and cultural contributor who helps shape brand worlds and experiences. The role blends conceptual creativity, strategic thinking, and elevated design to create cohesive experiences across touchpoints, platforms, and media. The designer translates strategy into adaptable brand systems and collaborates across disciplines to produce work that is visually compelling, emotionally resonant, scalable, and culturally relevant. The role encompasses identity systems, campaigns, environments, motion, digital experiences, and emerging platforms. The Senior Designer works in an energetic, collaborative environment, balancing craft with creative exploration. They develop concepts, present work to internal director-level team leaders and sometimes clients, mentor teammates, independently lead portions of projects, and contribute to the department’s future direction.

Requirements

Strong typography, layout, and color skills.
Strong design thinking and creative problem-solving abilities.
Ability to think beyond single executions and design cohesive brand systems.
Understanding of branding across packaging, retail, digital, physical, and virtual experiences.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
Understanding of print, digital, motion, and production fundamentals.
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
Strong understanding of emerging technology, AI tools, and modern creative platforms.
Curiosity, collaboration, and eagerness to grow creatively.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field, ad school credentials, and/or equivalent experience.
Five or more years of industry experience.
Exceptional portfolio demonstrating versatility across all media.
Ability to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

Create thoughtful, innovative, and culturally resonant design solutions across brand, campaign, digital, environmental, social, motion, and experiential applications.
Develop design systems and brand worlds that extend beyond logos and visual identity into cohesive, multi-platform experiences.
Collaborate with designers, strategists, copywriters, art directors, technologists, and account teams to bring ideas to life.
Push work beyond expected solutions by exploring multiple creative pathways.
Present ideas and design rationale clearly and confidently to internal teams and, at times, clients.
Lead portions of projects independently.
Contribute to the evolving culture, vision, and creative ambition of the department.
Stay connected to contemporary culture, design, technology, AI, and emerging creative behaviors.
Embrace feedback and continuously refine the work and personal craft.
Mentor teammates.