Designer

Critical Mass; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global maternity and parental leave

Competitive benefits packages

Vacation, compassionate leave, sick/p.

Early Dismissal Fridays (off at 3:00PM

Affinity groups

Learning and development programs

Employee discounts

Office in Chicago: 3 days in-office

Job summary

Critical Mass in Chicago is seeking a Designer (Social) to craft platform-native social content across motion, video, photography, and graphic design. You will bring high design craft, typography, and polish to fast-turnaround projects, using AI tools to accelerate ideas and production.

You’ll collaborate with CM Social Team to spot shifts early, craft remarkable work, and deliver consistent output for brand and media social accounts. A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience is expected.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience creating content for brand or media social accounts
• Cross-disciplinary skills in ideation, graphic design, photography and video editing
• Strong typography, composition and visual polish applied quickly
• Platform-specific knowledge for different social channels and formats

Responsibilities

• Concept social-first ideas that are platform-native
• Create social content across motion, video, photography, and graphic design
• Deliver high design craft under tight timelines
• Use generative AI tools to accelerate production and explore ideas
• Apply text-based AI for ideation, captioning and trend research
• Collaborate with partners to pitch and sketch post concepts
• Stay ahead of trends and platform formats
• Be a vocal, contributing member of the CM Social Team

Skills

Social content creation

Motion design

Video editing

Graphic design

Photography

Typography

Platform-native ideas

Adobe Creative Cloud

Figma

Education

Bachelor's degree in design

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

Figma

Premiere Pro

CapCut

Job description

Job Description

Social moves fast, and the best ideas in the feed don't look like they took long to make, whether they took five minutes or five days. As a Designer (Social), you have a bias towards making things: hands-on, fast, and unafraid to work scrappy and nimbly when the moment calls for it, whether that's a full Premiere edit or a quick turn in CapCut. You bring high design craft to a medium that rewards speed, instinct, and range: motion, video, photography, graphic design, whatever the platform calls for. You're not just keeping up with trends. You're the one spotting the shift before it's obvious, and turning it into something remarkable before anyone else does.

Agency

Critical Mass

Job Function

Creative

Job Subfunction

Design

You Will

• Concept social-first ideas, the kind that are genuinely remarkable and platform-native
• Create social content across a range of media types, including motion design, short-form video editing, graphic design, photography, and other formats as needed
• When appropriate, bring high design craft to fast-turnaround work: strong typography, composition, and visual polish, even under tight timelines
• Use generative AI tools (image, video, audio) to accelerate production and explore ideas that would otherwise be out of reach on a social timeline
• Apply text-based AI to speed up ideation, captioning, and trend research
• Collaborate with creative partners to pitch and sketch out post concepts and get them sold
• Stay ahead of trends and formats, identifying what makes contextual sense for each client and platform
• Be a vocal, contributing member of the CM Social Team who openly shares ideas and feedback

You Have

• 3+ years of experience creating content, in whole or in part, on behalf of brand or media social accounts
• Multi-hyphenate capabilities across ideation, graphic design, photography, and video editing
• Conceptual range: the ability to generate social-first ideas that are genuinely remarkable, not just on-trend
• High design craft, with a strong eye for typography, composition, and visual polish, applied fast
• Platform-specific expertise, with a strong understanding of how different platforms work and how to craft ideas that succeed on each
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma
• Motion design skills, with the ability to bring graphics and type to life for social formats
• Video editing skills, comfortable in tools like Premiere, Edits, or CapCut
• Comfort using generative AI and text-based AI tools as part of your creative process
• Boundless creative energy and a collaborative spirit — you don't stop at the first idea, and you keep working with your team until you land on something unique
• The ability to deliver on a deadline, every time

Nice-to-Haves

• Hands-on experience with brand social content creation or publishing
• Strong presentation abilities
• Experience delivering creative in restrictive environments (tight legal restrictions, small creative sandboxes, etc.)
• Experience working with influencers & creators (or experience working as one)
• An affinity for Instagram and TikTok in particular

What We Offer

• Global maternity and parental leave
• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick/personal days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• Early Dismissal Friday’s (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
• 13 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• Enterprise-wide employee discounts
• Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week. Chicago: $65,000-$75,000

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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