Senior Designer

Walker Sands•Chicago, IL

7d•$77,000 - $90,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Walker Sands is seeking a highly creative Senior Designer to develop distinctive brand systems and marketing experiences for B2B clients. This role involves shaping and executing visually driven, strategically grounded work across visual identity systems, brand platforms, integrated campaigns, and multi-channel marketing programs. Reporting to senior design leadership, the position combines advanced craft expertise with growing leadership responsibilities. The Senior Designer will independently lead complex design initiatives for B2B clients, including building and refreshing visual identity systems from logos and core design foundations to scalable brand guidelines, and delivering full-funnel executions across marketing touchpoints. As a senior team member, collaboration across disciplines is key to ensuring design strengthens brand equity and drives business outcomes.

Requirements

5-8 years of agency design experience.
Proven experience building highly creative brand systems and integrated campaigns.
Portfolio demonstrating advanced craft, conceptual thinking and multi-channel application.
Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
Strong working knowledge of how design supports brand, demand generation and campaign performance.
Deep working knowledge of AI platforms and evolving digital production workflows.
Ability to flawlessly manage multiple projects in a fast-paced agency environment.
Detail-oriented and accountable.
Proactive and solutions focused.
Highly collaborative team player.
Comfortable navigating and providing clear and concise feedback.
Passion for fast-paced environments where ambiguity is the norm.

Responsibilities

Lead the execution of highly creative and complex visual work across identity systems, digital experiences, campaigns and content ecosystems.
Demonstrate mastery of typography, grid systems, color theory, composition and visual hierarchy.
Clearly communicate strong strategic rationale behind all your design decisions.
Deeply understand and seamlessly translate strategic direction into compelling visual solutions.
Ensure all deliverables meet the highest agency and client standards for quality, consistency and creativity.
Lead and contribute to the development and expansion of scalable visual frameworks and campaign toolkits.
Apply brand systems consistently across touchpoints while adapting for channel-specific needs.
Lead and contribute to the ongoing refinement and evolution of clients’ brand expressions.
Partner closely with art directors, copywriters and strategists during concepting and execution.
Work with senior members of the media, PR and content teams to align creative with integrated activation plans.
Present work internally and to clients with strong rationale, openness to feedback and the ability to evolve suggestions in the moment.
Continuously strengthen craft across conceptual design, systems thinking and emerging technologies.
Provide coaching, mentorship and day-to-day guidance to Designers and Associate Designers.
Actively seek and offer thoughtful craft feedback to elevate cross-functional team output.
Stay current on design trends, B2B marketing innovation and AI-enabled creative workflows.