Senior Designer II - Meta
Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid – 3 days in office)
Full-time | Translation
Overview:
The Senior Designer II is a hands-on design leader who combines exceptional craft with strong conceptual thinking and team leadership. As a Senior Designer II, you help guide creative direction across key projects, working closely with partners in art direction, copy, strategy, and production. You bring vision, structure, and a high standard of execution to everything you touch—while helping mentor junior and mid-level designers along the way.
Key Responsibilities:
Creative Scope & Execution:
- Lead design across multi-channel advertising campaigns, brand platforms, and visual identity systems
- Translate conceptual creative ideas into polished, production-ready designs that push the work forward
- Develop and uphold the visual language for client brands, ensuring consistency and craft across deliverables
- Jump in at every stage of the process—from concepting and design exploration to final polish and delivery
- Set the bar for aesthetic excellence, typography, layout, and digital execution
Collaboration & Communication:
- Partner with creative leads, writers, strategists, and producers to align on campaign direction and execution
- Present work with confidence and clarity, internally and to clients, articulating design decisions and storytelling impact
- Help shape creative briefs and give clear, constructive feedback in design reviews and working sessions
- Work closely with project managers to prioritize tasks, manage timelines, and ensure smooth delivery
Leadership & Mentorship:
- Provide day-to-day guidance to junior designers and art directors, offering critique and coaching to elevate their work
- Foster a collaborative, positive, and high-performing team culture
- Contribute to recruiting, onboarding, and evaluating freelance or full-time design talent
- Support department-wide design initiatives and maintain creative standards across the portfolio
What Success Looks Like:
- Delivers standout design work that elevates campaign ideas and meets strategic objectives
- Builds trusted relationships across creative, strategy, and production teams
- Raises the standard for craft and clarity, inspiring others by example
- Balances creative excellence with practical problem solving and efficient execution
Ideal Candidate:
- 6–8+ years of experience in a design role within a creative agency or brand studio
- Portfolio showcasing best-in-class campaign work, identity design, and digital execution
- Expert in Adobe Creative Suite and familiar with Figma or other digital tools
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present, justify, and refine ideas in a team setting
- Passionate about mentorship, design culture, and building a modern creative department
About UnitedMasters, Inc.
UnitedMasters Inc. represents the creative solutions company, Translation, and the leading software and services platform for independent creators, UnitedMasters. UnitedMasters enables ownership, exposure, and new paths for financial return for independent creators, while Translation helps brands leverage the power of contemporary culture to achieve transformational growth. Combined, UnitedMasters, Inc. is the world’s leading marketplace for cultural capital, connecting independent artists and brands to realize a future in which all creators own their future. Backed by Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, and Apple, UnitedMasters, Inc. is reimagining how brands and artists come together to tell their stories, build profitable growth, and push culture forward.
Salary Hiring Range: $120,000 - $140,000
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)
Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.
The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.
The salary range above is for the NY/CA. As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.
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