Senior Designer

Zeus Jones is looking for a Minneapolis-based Senior Designer with 5+ years of experience. Our Design team shapes brand-defining experiences that engage, surprise, and differentiate. Our designers are ambitious, empathetic, and self-motivated. They are leaders who solve problems through design rather than decorate around them. They go beyond branding, using their craft to tackle business challenges alongside strategists and creatives. This role offers the opportunity to apply a broad range of design skills across brand, digital products, spatial, and physical product design to build brands that mean more to the world. Job Definition: Cultural Edge The ability to identify and translate cultural signals into work that keeps brands relevant and distinctive. This means maintaining a strong pulse on design and cultural movements, and understanding how the most interesting brands are shaping their presence in unexpected ways. The role requires deep insight-mining to position brands at the leading edge of business, and a designer who stays close to the cultural landscape that shapes culture itself. Meaning and Cohesion The ability to align diverse stakeholders around a design vision and drive organizational change. This involves bringing new forms of inspiration into our process and developing presentations, workshop methodologies, and change management strategies that build belief in brand ideas, and ensure those ideas survive contact with complex organizations. Craft and Execution The ability to take an idea from concept to execution, and make it sharper at every step. This means a high bar for taste, deep expertise in the tools that get the work made (including Figma's more advanced features and emerging GenAI tools), and fluency across formats including branding, art direction, experiential design, and digital product. Strong designers here can hold a vision and land the details. They can work from loose or undefined inputs, build a clear point of view, and bring others along, whether that's a cross-disciplinary team, a client, or a peer giving feedback. They can make design decisions legible to non-designers, and they have the judgment to know which decisions matter most at each stage. Qualities: These are the qualities that matter most on this team: Collaborative. Comfortable making work alone and with others. Understands feedback as part of the craft. Curious. Restless about what's next for design, for business, for culture. Flexible. Follows the potential of an idea rather than the comfort of a process. Ambitious. Wants to solve real problems, not just make flashy artifacts. Intuitive. Can make and defend decisions from incomplete or conflicting information. Observant. Listens to what people say, and what they don't. Emergent. Believes their skills are never done growing. Has wins to point to, and is always looking for the next challenge. Autonomous. Self-motivated. Comfortable working without close management. Additional Details: This role is based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. We are a hybrid workplace, in office Tuesday through Thursday. Salary range: $95,000 to $120,000, depending on experience. Applications accepted now through 6/12. About Zeus Jones: Zeus Jones is an independent strategy, creative, and design agency that helps brands imagine better futures and build toward them with conviction. We offer a strong culture, the chance to work on genuinely hard business problems, and the opportunity to grow alongside industry-leading colleagues. Benefits include medical and dental insurance, 401(k) with employer match, unlimited PTO, short- and long-term disability insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, internet bill reimbursement, and generous paid parental leave. Zeus Jones