Senior Designer - End-to-End Creative Leader (Onsite)

monks; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Monks is seeking a seasoned Senior Designer to join an embedded creative team for rapid-turn editorial, digital, and marketing content on-site in Menlo Park, CA. This temporary, full-time position runs through March 31, 2027.

You will own end-to-end assets, evolve brand systems, and partner with senior client stakeholders while leveraging AI production workflows to accelerate ideation and output.

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years of design experience across editorial, digital, web or brand design.
• Proven ability to lead creative decisions with executive presence.
• Strong typography, layout, color theory and storytelling skills.

Responsibilities

• Anchor Visual Craft & Brand Systems: Drive the creative execution of high-profile editorial, marketing, and web deliverables, applying and thoughtfully evolving established brand guidelines, component systems, and templates.
• Deliver Assets End-to-End: Own deliverables from brief through final export; lead with static design while fluidly incorporating motion snippets, UI animation, and video assembly to produce complete, turnkey assets.
• Lead Stakeholder Interactions: Act as a strategic creative partner to client leads - presenting work directly, articulating design rationale, resolving ambiguity in real time, and guiding projects forward without daily supervision.
• Leverage AI as a Production Multiplier: Integrate approved generative AI models and prompt workflows into your daily pipeline to accelerate ideation, unblock technical constraints, and expand creative throughput.
• Visualize Complex Information: Distill technical concepts, product architecture, and data into intuitive infographics, diagrams, charts, and interactive layouts.
• Apply Advanced Systems & UX Principles: Design responsive, accessible digital layouts in Figma, leveraging shared libraries, tokens, variables, and reusable component architectures.
• Uphold Rigorous Self-QA: Maintain strict quality control over your own files, reviewing typography, alignment, responsiveness, animation timing, and technical specifications prior to stakeholder delivery.
• Navigate Dynamic Priorities: Adapt quickly to shifting brief requirements, delivering high-velocity revisions while preserving design system integrity and aesthetic polish.
• Ensure Discretion: Handle confidential, unreleased product information and strategic client IP with absolute discretion.

Skills

6-8+ years design experience

Typography & layout mastery

Figma advanced components

AI-assisted production workflows

After Effects / motion design

Tools

After Effects

Figma

Job description

Monks is seeking a seasoned Senior Designer to join an embedded creative team for rapid-turn editorial, digital, and marketing content on-site in Menlo Park, CA. This temporary, full-time position runs through March 31, 2027.

You will own end-to-end assets, evolve brand systems, and partner with senior client stakeholders while leveraging AI production workflows to accelerate ideation and output.