Senior Designer

About the Role

Samba is looking for a Senior Designer who works at the intersection of design craft and AI. You'll use Claude Code and Claude Design as fluently as Figma, not as a novelty, but as a core workflow for ideation, production, and creative output.

You'll translate complex data and technology concepts into clear, compelling visual stories, and shape how Samba shows up across every touchpoint: brand, web, campaigns, social, presentations, and events. You'll do it as part of an agile, fast-moving creative team where your work has real visibility and real impact, and you won't be buried in a queue of templated requests.

• Design high-impact creative across brand, web, campaign, social, presentation, event, and demand-gen formats.

• Use Claude Code and Claude Design daily to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and production. You should already be doing this, not learning it on the job.

• Build and evolve design systems in Figma that scale across a growing brand.

• Design and animate motion content, with a focus on AI-assisted animation tools and workflows (Runway, Midjourney video, Higgsfield, or similar) alongside traditional motion craft.

• Turn complex data into clear, engaging visual narratives through compelling data visualization.

• Design polished presentations and sales materials with strong attention to detail and narrative structure.

• Contribute to the Samba website and campaign builds, working within Framer and modern web/design tooling.

• Use Google Suite (Slides, Docs, Sheets) fluently for day-to-day collaboration, drafts, and stakeholder-facing work.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales, Product, and Leadership.

• Stay current with design trends, emerging AI tools, and workflow innovations that can improve the team's output.

• 7+ years of professional design experience, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong conceptual thinking, visual storytelling, and creative problem-solving across brand, web, and campaign work.

• AI-forward by default, genuinely comfortable and fluent using Claude Code and Claude Design as part of your actual design workflow, not just aware of them.

• Expert-level skills in Figma, plus solid working fluency in Google Suite.

• Animation experience, with real exposure to AI-driven animation and video-generation tools. You know how to direct and refine output, not just prompt and hope.

• Strong data visualization design ability.

• Experience developing brand and marketing creative across digital, social, video, and experiential formats.

• Excellent communication skills. You can present your work, integrate feedback from multiple stakeholders, and explain your thinking clearly.

• Self-directed and well-organized. You manage your own time and keep projects moving without close oversight.

• A sharp eye for detail and a high bar for craft.

• Experience with Framer.

• Deeper motion/animation background (After Effects, Lottie, CSS/JS animation).

• Experience designing for social-first formats.

• Degree in design, fine arts, or a related field.