Senior Creative Engineer role at Critical Mass, sitting within the creative production team. Owns design systems, component libraries, and scalable Figma frameworks that support high-volume digital campaign production.
What you'll do
- Translate creative concepts and key art into scalable design solutions for digital campaigns
- Build, maintain, and evolve design systems supporting efficient creative production
- Create and manage reusable Figma components, libraries, templates, and production frameworks
- Utilise advanced Figma functionality including variables, auto layout, and component architecture
- Establish and propagate design standards across projects for consistency
- Collaborate with creative, account, and production teams on brand-aligned assets
- Design and produce high-volume creative assets with pixel-perfect execution
- Explore and implement AI-powered tools to enhance creative production and efficiency
- Support motion design needs for digital campaigns and deliverables
- Maintain organised, scalable, and technically sound creative files
- Contribute ideas that improve workflows, processes, and production efficiencies
- Adapt quickly to shifting priorities across a variety of projects
- Mentor junior creative engineers and elevate the team's technical capabilities
What we're looking for
- 3–5+ years as a production designer, creative engineer, or design systems designer
- Experience in high-volume, fast-paced creative production environments
- Advanced proficiency in Figma
- Hands-on experience with design systems, component libraries, variables, auto layout
- Experience creating, maintaining, and scaling reusable design frameworks
- Understanding of how design systems support production and collaboration
- Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT or Canva AI in creative workflows
- Strong visual design skills and aesthetic judgment
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
- Basic motion design experience using Adobe After Effects
- Experience producing digital marketing assets, banners, and email creatives
- Experience mentoring or coaching junior designers
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality
Nice to have
- Knowledge of Atomic Design principles
- Familiarity with design tokens
- UI design experience
- Experience within enterprise-scale design systems
- Experience building and editing Keynote and PowerPoint presentations
- General understanding of HTML5
- Experience evaluating or optimising AI-powered creative workflows
Good to know
- Work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week