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Code and Theory; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Code and Theory in New York is seeking a Senior Designer with strong visual instincts, sharp craft, and deep AI fluency and prototyping momentum to think faster, iterate more, and close the gap between concept and build. You’ll shape identity systems, campaigns, and digital product experiences that feel distinct and relevant.

You’ll design across brand identity, campaigns, and product experiences; create scalable visual languages and design systems; prototype early and often; and partner with

Qualifications

• AI fluency and curiosity; actively experimenting with tools and evolving workflows.
• Ability to turn ideas into tangible, testable experiences quickly with prototypes.
• Strong communication and collaborative mindset; able to own parts of work independently.
• Portfolio showing craft across identity, campaigns, and product/UI (systems + execution).
• Strong typography, composition, interaction sensibility, and systems thinking with attention to detail.
• Experience contributing to design systems across marketing and product surfaces.
• Comfort collaborating with engineers and working in iterative build cycles.

Responsibilities

• Design across brand identity systems, campaigns, and digital product experiences (web, mobile, platforms).
• Create scalable visual languages and design systems that work across marketing and product environments.
• Translate strategy into clear concepts, flows, UI frameworks, and high-craft executions.
• Prototype early and often from interaction/motion studies to clickable and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Use AI as a core design tool to build and refine workflows for ideation, iteration, production support, and rapid prototyping.
• Partner with strategists, writers, producers, and engineers to bring work to life end-to-end, with feasibility and build-ready detail.
• Present work clearly, incorporate feedback, and contribute to client conversations when needed.
• Balance conceptual exploration with strong day-to-day design production across multiple workstreams.
• Deliver high-fidelity concepts that developers can build, ensuring handoff and QA.
• Manage workload and timeline priorities.

Skills

AI fluency

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Systems thinking

Job description

At Code and Theory, Designers shape identity systems, campaigns, and digital product experiences that help brands feel distinct and relevant. We’re looking for a Senior Designer with strong visual instincts, sharp craft, and most importantly, deep AI fluency and prototyping momentum: someone who uses AI to think faster, make more, and close the gap between concept and build.

This role is for someone who cares deeply about typography, layout, interaction, motion, and the details that make work feel clear, expressive, and culturally aware. You’re excited to build brands that scale from foundational identity systems to campaign concepts and into real, shippable product experiences and you’re genuinely obsessed with emerging AI tools, building custom workflows, and using them to expand exploration, speed iteration, and raise the fidelity of what you hand to engineering.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design across brand identity systems, campaigns, and digital product experiences (web, mobile, platforms)
• Create scalable visual languages and design systems that work across marketing and product environments
• Translate strategy into clear concepts, flows, UI frameworks, and high-craft executions
• Prototype early and often from interaction/motion studies to clickable and high-fidelity prototypes that reduce ambiguity and accelerate delivery
• Use AI as a core design tool, not an add-on: build and refine workflows for ideation, iteration, production support, and rapid prototyping
• Partner with strategists, writers, producers, and engineers to bring work to life end-to-end, with an emphasis on feasibility and build-ready detail
• Present work clearly, incorporate feedback thoughtfully, and contribute to client conversations when needed
• Balance conceptual exploration with strong day-to-day design production across multiple workstreams
• Deliver high-fidelity concepts that developers can build from ensuring what ships looks and behaves like what was intended (handoff, QA, iteration)
• Manage workload and project timelines to keep design work prioritized, scoped appropriately, and delivered on schedule

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• High AI fluency and curiosity: you’re not just familiar with tools you’re actively experimenting, developing opinions, and evolving your workflow
• The ability to turn ideas into tangible, testable experiences quickly, using prototypes to drive alignment and decisions
• Strong communication skills, collaborative mindset, and ability to own pieces of work independently
• A portfolio showing strong craft across identity, campaign, and product/UI work (systems + execution)
• Strong typography, composition, interaction sensibility, and systems thinking with high attention to detail
• Experience contributing to design systems and applying them across both marketing and product surfaces
• Comfort collaborating closely with engineers (handoff, feasibility, QA) and working in iterative build cycles

ABOUT US

Born in 2001, Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency that sits at the center of creativity and technology. We pride ourselves on not only solving consumer and business problems, but also helping to establish new capabilities for our clients. With a global client roster of Fortune 100s and start-ups alike, we crave the hardest problems to solve. We have teams distributed across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The Code and Theory global network of agencies is growing and includes Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Create Group, Current, and TrueLogic.

Striving never to be pigeonholed, we work across every major category: from tech to CPG, financial services to travel & hospitality, government and education to media and publishing. We value the collaboration with our client partners, including but not limited to Adidas, Amazon, Con Edison, Diageo, EY, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lenovo, Marriott, Mars, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and TikTok.

The Code and Theory network is comprised of nearly 2,000 people with 50% engineers and 50% creative talent. We’re always on the lookout for smart, driven, and forward-thinking people to join our team.

The compensation range for this role is $90,000 – $115,000 and spans multiple levels. We're open to hiring at the level that best matches the right candidate's experience. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, budget, and location.