Freelance - Senior Designer
VSA Partners
$60 - $80 / hour
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Description
VSA’s purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and design agency, we blend consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences in an increasingly noisy world. With offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, VSA offers a full range of fully integrated capabilities—branding, advertising, data science and technology—all under one roof. VSA is also a proud member of Meet The People, an international family of unified and independent agencies. For more than 40 years, we have delivered solutions for business and creative leaders at some of the world’s most respected brands and forward-thinking organizations, including Google, Nike and IBM.
Senior Designer
As the embodiment of design thinking, you bring ideas to life, extending visual language into functional mediums. You turn clients’ stories, visions, and voices into something tangible and real. With the strength of your conceptual thinking, your creations show us how problems can be solved, simplified, and then go on to succeed. You’ve got the whole form/function thing down pat, and you’re down to join a team that embraces Design in everything they do.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist with the creation of visual designs, typography, visual concepts, logos, and icons.
- Brainstorm creative concepts with the project team and help develop original campaigns.
- Integrate ideas across multiple mediums including TV, print, and digital.
- Ideally, you will get direction and run with it. We look for self-starters, go-getters, and other hyphenated-type characters.
- Sell your work—not just to clients, but to your peers and colleagues, too.
- Working on projects and assignments in accordance to established timelines and project briefs and expectations
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 4-7 years of proven experience in the agency space.
- A bachelor’s degree in Design or a portfolio school education focused on Design/art direction.
- You're an expert in Figma.
- You’re a conceptual creative problem solver, strategically applying ideas across all channels.
- Bonus: you have a strong interest and/or experience specific to print production and packaging.
- You are collaborative, hardworking, adaptable, with strong initiative.
- You are rational but innovative.
- You have a naturally curious mind and a passion for applying pixel-perfect design to creative concepts.
- You’re ready to spitball and spit-shine ground-breaking ideas with a phenomenal, hardworking group of people.
- You’re receptive to constructive feedback, a quick learner and continuously looking for ways to grow.
- No huge egos. Or even medium-size egos. In fact, no ego is better. Okay maybe like a teeny-tiny ego (because you ARE human after all*).
- You are, right? You must be human. That is definitely a requirement.
VSA Partners is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive, equitable environment for all employees. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit and business need.
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VSA PARTNERS, LLC
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About this role
VSA Partners, a strategy and design agency with four decades of work for major brands like Google and Nike, is looking for a Senior Designer to join their Chicago office on a freelance basis. You'll translate client stories and visions into visual designs across multiple mediums—from logos and typography to campaigns spanning TV, print, and digital. The role expects you to move from conceptual thinking to execution, collaborating with project teams to develop original ideas and then advocate for your work both internally and to clients.
The ideal candidate has four to seven years of agency experience, a design degree or portfolio school background, and expert-level proficiency in Figma. You should be a conceptual problem-solver who can work across channels strategically, with a bonus if you have print production or packaging expertise. VSA values self-starters who are collaborative, adaptable, and genuinely curious—people who can take direction and run with it, embrace feedback, and contribute to a team culture built on creative rigor without pretension.
This is an in-office freelance position in Chicago with an estimated salary range of $60–$80 USD.
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