Senior Designer & Creative Technologist

About VividFront

Founded in 2009, VividFront has spent nearly two decades partnering with leading, high-potential brands to build their next chapter of growth. We're built in-house with the best marketers, PMs, designers, and developers you can find. We're exceptional at eCommerce, premium-product brands, and technical projects that demand both creative judgment and real engineering rigor.

We believe unique, scroll-stopping creative is the only way a brand differentiates itself in an AI world where everyone has access to the same tools. But we don't treat AI as a threat to that creative; we treat it as leverage. Our team pushes AI to its maximum potential so human taste and craft can go further, faster, without ever becoming the thing that makes the work forgettable.

About the Role

VividFront is looking for a senior designer to raise the creative bar for our clients. We keep our design team relatively flat: this isn't an Art Director title, but we expect that level of thinking, ownership, and taste from day one.

You'll own production design across a roster of brands — some of the biggest names in our portfolio — while actively shaping how creative gets made here, including how we use AI as part of the process. If you're the kind of designer who's already rebuilt your own workflow around AI tools because you got impatient waiting for someone else to, this is your role.

What You'll Do

• Own production design across paid social, email, and campaign assets for multiple clients at once
• Craft messaging and visual concepts within ad campaigns and emails, supported by our internal Agency AI tooling and each client's brand standards, and build directly in-platform when the work calls for it
• Contribute as a creative voice in Creative Roundtables alongside marketers, PMs, and strategists, generating concepts built to cut through busy social feeds
• Elevate creative tasks assigned to you by PMs and marketers. Bring your own point of view and polish to work that started as someone else's brief, not just execute it as handed off
• Push our use of AI creative tools forward. Test new tools, find workflows that get better output faster, and bring that thinking back to the team
• Translate briefs and brand guidelines into memorable, on-brand creative 
• Build and maintain scalable design systems/templates so campaigns move fast without losing quality
• Present and support your creative decisions directly to clients, with the confidence to defend an idea
• Give and receive creative critique at a high bar
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and client deadlines at agency pace
  

Who Thrives at VividFront

The people who build meaningful, high-impact careers here:

• Take complete commercial ownership from initial concept through measurable client impact
• Obsess over business impact and client ROI, not performative activity or billable busywork
• Elevate the standard of craft and technical polish on every task they touch
• Adopt new tools and AI workflows proactively, using technology as leverage to go faster
• Thrive in collaborative, fast-moving pods alongside sharp, demanding teammates
• Expect their career growth and compensation to reflect their real commercial results, not agency tenure
  VividFront is not the right fit for passengers, ticket-takers, or anyone who needs rigid checklists, narrow swim-lanes, or predictable routines.

Requirements

What You Bring

• 5+ years of design experience, including meaningful time in an agency environment (multi-client, deadline-driven, feedback-heavy)
• Experience with consumer/eCommerce brands at a caliber similar to our largest accounts (e.g., Wusthof Knives, Anon by Burton, SKINY Underwear). You understand DTC eCommerce visual language and what actually converts
• Impeccable taste. A sharp, reliable eye that improves whatever you touch, whether it's your own concept or work assigned by a PM or marketer
• Strong production design fundamentals: clean files, format adaptation across channels, launch-ready final assets
• Real, demonstrated fluency with AI design tools. Not dabbling, but genuinely rethought workflows (generative image tools, AI-assisted editing/production)
• An entrepreneurial streak: you try new tools before being told to, and you treat AI as leverage, not a shortcut around craft
• Confidence presenting and defending creative decisions to clients, not just to internal teams
• Expert-level Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign); Figma a plus
• A portfolio with range and a real point of view 
• Comfort contributing in a room with marketers, PMs, and strategists
• Self-directed and able to juggle multiple client accounts simultaneously
• Able to accurately estimate how much time a task will take to complete, when prompted by a PM or marketer 
• On-budget, on-time work for all tasks for all clients. 
  

Bonus Points

• Animation/motion design capabilities (After Effects, Lottie, or similar)

Benefits

What Makes This Role Different

We're hiring for taste and initiative as much as talent. Our design team is flat by design — you won't be buried under layers of sign-off, and you'll have real room to shape how we use AI in creative, not just execute someone else's process.

• Competitive Base Salary: annual salary, reviewed annually based on measurable impact.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Robust medical, dental, and vision plans to keep you and your family supported.
• Life & Disability Insurance: Company-provided coverage for peace of mind.
• Paid Parental Leave: Fully paid parental leave (3 months maternal 2 months paternal) .
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO): Flexible vacation and sick days with zero guilt. We expect you to take time off to recharge.
• Paid Agency Holidays: Full calendar of paid agency holidays throughout the year.
• Year-End Agency Shutdown: Dedicated paid office closure between Christmas and New Year's Day so the entire team unplugs simultaneously.
• Intentional Flexibility: 2 Days per week of on-site collaboration in our downtown Cleveland office for high-bandwidth creative sessions and cross-functional pod syncs, paired with 3 days per week of remote focus days.
• Frontier AI Tooling Investment: Access to modern generative AI and creative automation tooling to eliminate repetitive grunt work and maximize creative craft.
• Hardware Setup: High-performance workstation and hardware allowance configured for heavy design and data execution.
• Marquee Brand Roster: Direct creative and growth ownership across premier consumer goods, lifestyle brands, and high-growth eCommerce accounts.