Senior Designer - Temporary
Temporary full-time Senior Designer at Monks, embedded onsite at a client's Menlo Park, CA office 4–5 days per week through March 31, 2027, producing rapid-turn editorial, marketing, and web assets. Day to day: high-end visual design in Figma plus motion snippets, basic video editing, and AI-assisted production to deliver finished assets end to end.
- Compensation
- $70–$80 / hr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 6–8+ years of design experience across digital, visual, web, or brand design within an agency, technology organization, or in-house creative team
- Exceptional visual judgment and taste: layout hierarchy, typography, composition, color theory, and art direction
- Practical use of After Effects and basic video post-production (UI animation, social cuts, video-integrated assets)
- Hands-on experience integrating generative AI tools and model workflows into production pipelines
- Strong executive presence and communication skills, with a track record of defending creative decisions and building trust independently
- Mastery of Figma's advanced toolset: components, variants, auto layout, variables, and cross-platform design systems
- Proven ability to translate abstract or highly technical concepts into clear diagrams and visual narratives
- Proven capability to handle fast turnarounds and pivot while maintaining high standards of finish
- Professional fluency in written and spoken English with proactive cross-functional communication
- Ability to work onsite at the client's Menlo Park, CA office 4–5 days per week through March 31, 2027
Full description
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About the Role
Monks is seeking a seasoned Senior Designer to join an embedded creative team producing rapid-turn editorial, digital, and marketing content. Operating on-site alongside senior client stakeholders, this role is built for a design-first craftsperson with high autonomy, executive presence, and an end-to-end maker mindset.
Your foundation is elite visual and digital design: typography, layout, systems, and storytelling. From that base, you lean naturally into multidisciplinary execution - comfortable integrating simple motion graphics, basic video editing, and AI-assisted production workflows to push an asset across the finish line rather than handing off intermediate steps. You bring the creative maturity to hold the room with stakeholders, make decisive creative calls under tight deadlines, and navigate changing requirements while upholding an uncompromising standard of craft within established brand systems.
Employment Type, Duration & Work Location
This is a temporary, full-time position expected to run through March 31, 2027.
This role requires working onsite at our client's office in Menlo Park, CA, 4–5 days per week.
In This Role, You Will
- 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.