Senior Interactive Designer

Overview

As a Senior Interactive Designer at Kargo Commerce, you craft visually compelling, user-centered ad experiences for paid social campaigns. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring big ideas to life on mobile, while upholding brand standards and ad unit best practices. You’ll mentor junior designers, contribute to product ideation, and act as a subject-matter expert for the New York team. This role blends creative execution with strategic impact in a fast-growing ad-tech environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and animate cutting-edge paid social assets
• Apply user-centered design to create intuitive solutions
• Research and maintain client brand guidelines
• Collaborate with Client Service Managers to translate concepts into mobile experiences
• Adhere to ad unit best-practice standards across campaigns
• Develop knowledge of new technologies/products and identify opportunities for additional products
• Contribute to product ideation with mocks and prototypes
• Create pre-sale ad campaign mocks
• Lead and participate in client brainstorms and creative meetings
• Be a subject-matter expert and go-to design resource for the New York team
• Mentor and manage junior designers to support their growth
• Handle quick-turnaround design requests from other departments

Key requirements

• 5+ years professional design experience (graphic design and/or motion graphics)
• Portfolio showing user-centered design across mobile, social, branding, advertising, video, and animation
• Excellent visual design with pixel-perfect attention to detail
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, XD/Figma, After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere Pro
• Strong video editing skills
• Ability to work autonomously, multi-task, and meet tight deadlines with curiosity for new ad experiences
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Proactive, results-driven attitude with a commitment to quality
• Experience in mobile advertising preferred
• Experience with Google Apps and Microsoft Office
• Passion for social media, ad tech, and user experience
• Strong organizational skills and adherence to processes
• Comfortable in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
• People management experience

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Collaborative mindset and ability to mentor others
• Strong attention to detail
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe XD or Figma
• Adobe After Effects

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