PolkaDot is a creative agency delivering integrated brand, marketing, and digital design solutions across traditional and emerging media. We partner with global enterprises and ambitious startups to create work that not only captures attention but builds lasting brand affinity.
We believe the strongest ideas emerge by challenging convention—not settling for it. As AI reshapes the creative industry, we embrace it as a force multiplier, combining human creativity with intelligent tools to deliver faster, smarter, and more impactful design solutions.
We are looking for a Senior Visual Designer who blends exceptional design craft with strategic thinking, project ownership, and creative leadership. This role is ideal for someone who is equally comfortable crafting pixel-perfect visuals, leading creative initiatives, and leveraging AI-powered tools to accelerate ideation, production, and storytelling.
You'll work across branding, digital experiences, marketing campaigns, and product communications while helping define how AI becomes an integral part of our creative workflow.
Beyond execution, you'll mentor designers, influence creative direction, and continuously identify opportunities to innovate through design and emerging technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead visual design projects from strategy and concept development through execution and delivery.
- Create compelling visual experiences across digital, brand, marketing, social, and product touchpoints.
- Define and maintain visual design systems that ensure consistency and elevate customer experience.
- Drive creative concepts from idea to execution while balancing business goals and user needs.
- Collaborate closely with creative directors, copywriters, marketers, product teams, and stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, introduce innovative ideas, and elevate creative quality.
- Mentor designers through design critiques, feedback, and creative guidance.
- Present concepts and articulate design rationale confidently to internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage multiple projects independently while maintaining high creative standards and meeting deadlines.
- Ensure accessibility, usability, and inclusive design principles are incorporated into every project.
Basic Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience as a visual designer in a startup or creative agency setting.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating a range of brand, UI/UX, and visual design work.
- Proficiency in industry-standard design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, InVision, or equivalents.
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Creative Direction, Visual Communication, or equivalent practical experience.
AI & Emerging Design Responsibilities
- Integrate AI tools into the creative process for ideation, concept generation, mood boards, visual exploration, image creation, and production workflows.
- Develop effective prompting strategies to generate high-quality creative outputs using AI platforms.
- Evaluate, curate, refine, and art direct AI-generated visuals to maintain premium creative quality.
- Stay up to date with emerging AI technologies and recommend new tools, workflows, and best practices.
- Combine traditional design thinking with AI-assisted workflows to improve efficiency without compromising creativity.
- Explore generative design, motion, personalization, and creative automation opportunities for clients.
- Proven experience leading creative projects from concept through execution.
- Strong conceptual thinking with the ability to translate complex ideas into engaging visual narratives.
- Excellent understanding of typography, layout, colour theory, composition, branding, and design systems.
- Experience working across print, digital, social media, e-commerce, and motion-first campaigns.
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards and user-centred design principles.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment while managing multiple priorities.
- Passion for experimenting with emerging technologies and continuously evolving creative workflows.
Bonus Skills
- Motion graphics and animation (After Effects, Lottie, Rive).
- Basic video editing and AI video generation.
- Experience with 3D tools such as Blender or Cinema 4D.
- Familiarity with HTML/CSS and modern web capabilities.
- Knowledge of design tokens, component libraries, and scalable design systems.
- Experience building AI-assisted creative workflows, custom GPTs, or automated design pipelines.
- Familiarity with creative coding, no-code automation tools, or generative AI APIs.
We're not just hiring someone who can design beautiful visuals—we're looking for someone who understands that the future of design lies in the intersection of creativity, strategy, technology, and AI. The ideal candidate knows when to create from scratch, when to leverage AI, and how to combine both to produce exceptional creative work.
