Senior Design Lead (Contract-to-Hire)

IRON is looking for a Senior Design Lead who can move fast, stay precise, and create polished digital retail work for brands like Levi's, adidas, Hydro Flask, Ray-Ban, and more.

Creative ideas are only half the story. The magic happens when those ideas are extended thoughtfully, consistently, and beautifully across hundreds of real-world touchpoints. If you have an eye for detail, a knack for working within brand systems, and the ability to produce exceptional work at speed, this could be exactly the role you've been looking for.

About The Role

This is one of those roles that makes everything better. Our designers are trusted with extending the creative work for some of the world's best-known brands across dozens of digital touchpoints. The work moves quickly, the standards are high, and the details matter.

We're looking for someone who takes pride in that kind of craft. Someone who enjoys making great work feel effortless, who embraces new tools (including AI) without losing their eye for quality, and who believes the best creative teams are collaborative, curious, and always looking for a better way to work.

We also think agency life should be enjoyable. So if you have ideas that would make the work better, the process smoother, or the team happier, we're all ears.

Duties & Responsibilities

• We're a 30+ person digital agency specializing in building the digital retail content that enterprise brands run at scale. This is a 3-month contract with a path to full-time.
• You'll work creatively within established brand systems, campaign toolkits, and existing artwork, extending them into clean, on-brand work across many formats. This is not primarily a blue-sky concepting role; we're hiring for disciplined, high-quality execution inside established creative frameworks.
• The right candidate is meticulous, fast, collaborative, and proud of getting the details right. You'll work closely with creative directors, art directors, project managers, account managers, and other designers across teams.
• If you can balance speed, taste, precision, and flawless execution, this role may be for you.

How You'll Grow with the Agency

• Collaborate and partner with other designers (contract or staff) as needed
• Help manage and maintain creative assets in an organized manner
• Adopt and integrate AI tools into your design workflow to work faster and sharper, and share what's working with the broader team
• Support agency growth through ongoing learning and skill-building
• Stay current on design and marketing trends and cultural moments, bringing fresh ideas to the team
• Participate in the strategic development of the agency and the IRON Creative brand (processes, ideas, competencies, innovations, products, business models)

The Ideal Candidate

• 5 years of design experience
• Proven ability to work within and extend existing brand guidelines, toolkits, and creative systems
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Ability to understand complex information hierarchies and communicate them through typography and design
• Experience working across multiple brand systems simultaneously, you're comfortable shifting between very different visual languages without losing precision or quality on any of them
• Knowledge of visual trends and design best practices
• Familiarity with Amazon content formats (A+, Brand Store, PDPs) or retail syndication platforms is a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort with AI design tools and a willingness to build them into your workflow
• Advanced to expert-level Figma; proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (ID, AI, PS)
• Animation skills, motion design, or editing (proficiency in After Effects) is not required, but is a nice-to-have
• West Coast hours required; fully remote position

About The Company

IRON Creative was founded in 2003. We're a 30+ person digital agency that helps B2B technology companies communicate complex ideas with clarity and creativity, while helping fashion and lifestyle brands create exceptional digital retail experiences that drive results.

We've tackled just about every kind of digital challenge imaginable, earning the trust and long-term partnerships of clients like Salesforce, Slack, Levi's, adidas, Hydro Flask, and Ray-Ban along the way.

We produce a lot of work to a very high standard, and we do it quickly. But we also believe agency life should be a place where people enjoy coming to work every day, even if "coming to work" means walking down the hall to your home office.

What We Offer

• 3-month contract-to-hire
• Remote role, West Coast hours (PDT)
• Hands-on training in the platforms that power retail content for major brands
• A team that works hard, cares about the work, and doesn't make agency life harder than it needs to be
• A strengths-based culture where the right person gets noticed fast
• Innovative work-from-home structure

How to Apply

Apply through LinkedIn and include a link to your portfolio. It's the first thing we'll look at.