Wanted: Senior Design Lead, Retail Content

About The Role

This is one of those roles that makes everything better. Our designers are trusted with extending the creative work for some of the world’s best-known brands across dozens of digital touchpoints. The work moves quickly, the standards are high, and the details matter.

We’re looking for someone who takes pride in that kind of craft. Someone who enjoys making great work feel effortless, who embraces new tools (including AI) without losing their eye for quality, and who believes the best creative teams are collaborative, curious, and always looking for a better way to work.

We also think agency life should be enjoyable. So if you have ideas that would make the work better, the process smoother, or the team happier, we’re all ears.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• IRON is looking for a Senior Design Lead who can move fast, stay precise, and create polished digital retail work for brands like Levi’s, adidas, Hydro Flask, Ray-Ban, and more.
• We’re a 30+ person digital agency specializing in building the digital retail content that enterprise brands run at scale. This is a 3-month contract role which may have the opportunity to extend. 
• You’ll work creatively within established brand systems, campaign toolkits, and existing artwork, extending them into clean, on-brand work across many formats. This is not primarily a blue-sky concepting role; we’re hiring for disciplined, high-quality execution inside established creative frameworks.
• The right Senior Design Lead is meticulous, fast, collaborative, and proud of getting the details right. You’ll work closely with creative directors, art directors, designers, project managers, and account managers across teams.
• If you can balance speed, taste, precision, and flawless execution, this role may be for you. Send your portfolio and rate requirements to the email address listed below. 

How You’ll Grow with the Agency

• Collaborate and partner with other designers (contract or staff) as needed
• Help manage and maintain creative assets in an organized manner
• Adopt and integrate AI tools into your design workflow to work faster and sharper, and share what’s working with the broader team
• Support agency growth through ongoing learning and skill-building
• Stay current on design and marketing trends and cultural moments, bringing fresh ideas to the team
• Participate in the strategic development of the agency and the IRON Creative brand (processes, ideas, competencies, innovations, products, business models)

The Ideal Candidate

• 5 years of design experience
• Proven ability to work within and extend existing brand guidelines, toolkits, and creative systems
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Ability to understand complex information hierarchies and communicate them through typography and design
• Experience working across multiple brand systems simultaneously, you’re comfortable shifting between very different visual languages without losing precision or quality on any of them
• Knowledge of visual trends and design best practices
• Familiarity with Amazon content formats (A+, Brand Store, PDPs) or retail syndication platforms is a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort with AI design tools and a willingness to build them into your workflow
• Advanced – Expert-level Figma; proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (ID, AI, PS)
• Animation skills, motion design, or editing (proficiency in After Effects) is not required, but is a nice-to-have
• West Coast hours required; fully remote position