Senior Designer: Brand Systems & Digital Experience Lead

Temper And Forge; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits including medical,

Dental and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Flexible hybrid work environment

Performance bonus opportunities

Company-sponsored life insurance

Job summary

Temper And Forge is a Seattle-based creative and digital agency seeking a Senior Designer to lead sophisticated creative work across brand, digital, and campaigns for a diverse client portfolio. The role blends hands-on design with a strong Figma-driven design system approach and cross-disciplinary collaboration to extend brands through websites, print collateral, and campaigns.

You will build visual identities, typography, color systems, and component libraries, and present design rationales to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional design experience, preferably within an agency, studio, or multidisciplinary creative environment.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional work across multiple disciplines, including brand and digital.
• Strong visual identity and brand system experience.
• Deep expertise in Figma.
• Advanced experience building and maintaining scalable Figma design systems.
• Strong knowledge of variables, design tokens, components, component properties, libraries, styles, and system architecture.
• Experience translating design systems effectively into development.
• Strong understanding of responsive design, reusable components, and modern digital design patterns.
• Strong typography, layout, hierarchy, color, and composition skills.
• Experience applying brands across both digital and print environments.
• Working knowledge of print production, file preparation, and the practical requirements of designing for physical output.
• Ability to move between conceptual brand thinking and highly detailed production design.
• Ability to work across several client engagements at once without sacrificing quality.
• Experience balancing larger project work with ongoing client and retainer needs.
• Experience presenting work and articulating design rationale to clients.
• Comfort working directly with strategists, developers, marketers, content teams, and project managers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design execution across brand, digital, campaign, and marketing engagements.
• Support a portfolio of ongoing retainer clients across a variety of creative needs.
• Build a strong understanding of long-term clients' brands, businesses, audiences, and goals.
• Develop and extend visual identities, including typography, color systems, graphic languages, layout systems, imagery direction, and brand applications.
• Translate brand strategy into cohesive visual systems that work across digital and physical touchpoints.
• Design websites and digital platforms from early creative exploration through production‑ready systems.
• Contribute to large‑scale website and digital platform engagements from discovery through launch.
• Build and maintain sophisticated Figma design systems.
• Establish and manage variables, tokens, component libraries, properties, styles, and reusable design patterns.
• Create design systems that support efficient collaboration between design and development.
• Design responsive digital experiences while maintaining consistency across larger brand ecosystems.
• Support print and physical applications such as brochures, direct mail, event materials, signage, presentations, sales collateral, and other branded materials.
• Develop campaign creative across digital and offline channels.
• Work across multiple projects and client relationships simultaneously.
• Step into established client relationships and extend existing brands thoughtfully and consistently.
• Present concepts, visual directions, and design rationale to clients and internal teams.
• Incorporate feedback while protecting the strategic and creative integrity of the work.
• Collaborate closely with strategists, developers, marketers, content teams, and project managers.
• Maintain an exceptional standard for typography, hierarchy, composition, interaction, consistency, and detail.
• Provide thoughtful feedback and help raise the quality of design work across the team.
• Contribute to the evolution of Temper And Forge's internal design systems, processes, standards, and creative workflows.
• Explore AI‑assisted and emerging creative workflows where they meaningfully improve quality, efficiency, or creative potential.

Skills

Brand design

Digital design

Figma

Design systems

Typography

Layout

Brand governance

Job description

Temper And Forge is a Seattle-based creative and digital agency seeking a Senior Designer to lead sophisticated creative work across brand, digital, and campaigns for a diverse client portfolio. The role blends hands-on design with a strong Figma-driven design system approach and cross-disciplinary collaboration to extend brands through websites, print collateral, and campaigns.

You will build visual identities, typography, color systems, and component libraries, and present design rationales to