Experience Design Supervisor

Syneos Health; Santa Monica, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health in Santa Monica is seeking an Experience Design Supervisor to lead the creation of digital and experiential brand experiences across web, mobile, VR/AR, and emerging channels. This hands-on leader will mentor Experience Designers, align work with campaign strategy, brand standards, and healthcare audience needs.

The candidate should excel in typography, visual storytelling, and cross-functional collaboration with UX, copy, account, strategy, and development teams to deliver

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience in digital design, experience design, interactive design, or a related creative discipline.
• Strong proficiency in Figma modern design tools including Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Ability to work in Figma design systems, create components and modify without breaking these systems.
• Experience designing for digital platforms, including web and mobile, experience in VR/AR & 3D or other emergent channels.
• Strong understanding of brand identity, typography, visual systems, design theory, and how those elements translate into interactive experiences.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working with UX, development, copy, account, strategy, and creative teams.
• Experience mentoring designers, reviewing work, supporting team development, and helping maintain quality across assigned projects.
• A working understanding of healthcare communications, medical terminology, regulatory considerations, and the importance of accuracy in healthcare advertising is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Design digital and experiential solutions that align with healthcare campaigns for HCP, patient, and consumer audiences.
• Envision and develop intuitive, scalable, and engaging interactions across web, mobile, VR/AR, and emerging platforms.
• Create design concepts, prototypes, animations, walkthroughs, storyboards, and presentations that help teams understand what should be built and why.
• Translate brand hallmarks, identity systems, typography, design theory, and campaign strategy into digital and non-traditional media executions.
• Partner with UX, developers, copywriters, art directors, strategists, account teams, and technologists to ensure ideas are seamless, executable, accessible, and strategically sound.
• Work with teams to test features, review functionality, and incorporate feedback into design iterations.
• Present creative work clearly, with the ability to explain the idea, the interactions, the user value, and the role the experience plays in the larger campaign.
• Ensure experience design work produced by Experience Designers is consistent with brand guidelines, campaign strategy, and established creative standards.
• Assist Experience Design leadership in mentoring team members, reviewing work, developing talent, and supporting career growth.
• Help assign tasks, manage workloads, review work, and inspire the team to deliver against high-quality standards.
• Contribute to strategic and tactical discussions, bringing ideas that connect creativity, technology, audience behavior, and business needs.
• Stay adaptable as healthcare, technology, design tools, audience expectations, and regulatory considerations continue to evolve.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Typography

Visual storytelling

Brand identity

Design strategy

Healthcare advertising

Mentoring

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Updated: Yesterday
Location: Santa Monica, CA, United States
Job ID:17911

The Experience Design Supervisor combines creativity, technology, and team leadership to create meaningful brand experiences across a wide range of digital, physical, and emerging channels. This role is responsible for envisioning and developing intuitive, scalable, and engaging experiences across platforms including web, mobile, VR/AR, wearables, immersive environments, and other evolving media. A hands‑on creative leader, the Experience Design Supervisor designs complete digital experiences while helping guide the work of Experience Designers and Senior Experience Designers, ensuring solutions align with campaign strategy, brand standards, accessibility expectations, and the needs of healthcare professional and patient audiences.

The ideal candidate has a sharp eye for typography, composition, interaction design, and visual storytelling. They are comfortable supervising and working on projects from concept through execution, creating thoughtful digital experiences that balance business objectives, audience needs, and creative excellence.

Success in this role requires the ability to partner closely with UX, technology, copy, conceptual teams, account, and strategy to turn complex healthcare information into experiences that are clear, engaging, behaviorally useful, and built to perform.

*Must be in PST time zone

Responsibilities

• Design digital and experiential solutions that align with healthcare campaigns for HCP, patient, and consumer audiences.
• Envision and develop intuitive, scalable, and engaging interactions across web, mobile, VR/AR, and emerging platforms.
• Create design concepts, prototypes, animations, walkthroughs, storyboards, and presentations that help teams understand what should be built and why.
• Translate brand hallmarks, identity systems, typography, design theory, and campaign strategy into digital and non-traditional media executions.
• Partner with UX, developers, copywriters, art directors, strategists, account teams, and technologists to ensure ideas are seamless, executable, accessible, and strategically sound.
• Work with teams to test features, review functionality, and incorporate feedback into design iterations.
• Present creative work clearly, with the ability to explain the idea, the interactions, the user value, and the role the experience plays in the larger campaign.
• Ensure experience design work produced by Experience Designers is consistent with brand guidelines, campaign strategy, and established creative standards.
• Assist Experience Design leadership in mentoring team members, reviewing work, developing talent, and supporting career growth.
• Help assign tasks, manage workloads, review work, and inspire the team to deliver against high-quality standards.
• Contribute to strategic and tactical discussions, bringing ideas that connect creativity, technology, audience behavior, and business needs.
• Stay adaptable as healthcare, technology, design tools, audience expectations, and regulatory considerations continue to evolve.

Qualification Requirements

• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience in digital design, experience design, interactive design, or a related creative discipline.
• Strong proficiency in Figma modern design tools including Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Ability to work in Figma design systems, create components and modify without breaking these systems.
• Experience designing for digital platforms, including web and mobile, experience in VR/AR & 3D or other emergent channels.
• Strong understanding of brand identity, typography, visual systems, design theory, and how those elements translate into interactive experiences.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working with UX, development, copy, account, strategy, and creative teams.
• Experience mentoring designers, reviewing work, supporting team development, and helping maintain quality across assigned projects.
• A working understanding of healthcare communications, medical terminology, regulatory considerations, and the importance of accuracy in healthcare advertising is beneficial.

Qualification Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional experience in digital design, product design, experience design, or related disciplines.
• Expert proficiency in Figma, including component libraries, design systems, auto-layout, prototyping, variables, and collaborative workflows.
• Deep understanding of typography, visual hierarchy, layout systems, and modern interface design principles.
• Experience creating design systems, reusable components, and scalable digital frameworks.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud and modern digital design tools.
• Ability to communicate design decisions clearly and effectively to multidisciplinary teams.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $100,000 to $$115,000. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. In addition, some positions may include eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and / or individual performance.

At GSW, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

GSW is a full-service healthcare communications agency that goes beyond advertising to create personalized brand experiences that involve, inspire, educate and activate people through ongoing brand journeys. As one of the world’s ten most-awarded healthcare advertising agencies, GSW is hell-bent not to replace the same old with the same old. This is achieved through a provocative premise — if other brands communicated the way healthcare brands do, how many customers would they have? GSW turns against this premise through discovery of beneath-the-surface customer insights that we impact with stories, simplicity and authenticity.

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