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# Freelance - Senior Designer at VSA Partners

- **Company:** VSA Partners
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Compensation:** $60–$80/hr
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vsapartners/jobs/6152576004

## Job 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.

Chicago Estimated Salary Range $60—$80 USD

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.

California Residents - Please review our Privacy Notice [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ScnONj7xW3Xy3ytStohy1If0HY6iVnLs/view?usp=sharing).

This employer participates in E-Verify. For more information, see the [E-Verify Participation Poster](https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf) and [Right to Work Notice](https://www.e-verify.gov/about-e-verify/whats-new/new-right-to-work-poster) (English and Spanish).

## VSA PARTNERS, LLC

[vsapartners.com](http://www.vsapartners.com/)

https://www.linkedin.com/company/vsa-partners/ https://www.facebook.com/vsapartners/ https://www.instagram.com/vsapartners/

## About VSA Partners

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: VSA Partners is a design-driven creative agency that helps brands turn creativity into growth through brand strategy, activation, campaigns, and digital experiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Innovatus Capital Partners in 2021; privately held)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States (with offices in New York, NY and San Francisco, CA)
- **Founded**: 1982
- **Founders**: Dana Arnett (Chairman & Founder) and Robert Vogele (Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Design Services / Creative Agency (branding, advertising, data science, technology)
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C brands, from global icons (Google, Nike, IBM) to emerging challengers; enterprise and mid-market
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Design for a better human experience” – blending consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful, motivating, and measurable experiences.

## Products & Services
Major offerings include:
- **Brand Strategy** – Brand architecture, narrative & messaging, verbal identity, audience research and segmentation.
- **Brand Activation** – Campaign development, design systems, visual identity, brand guidelines, dynamic websites and digital experiences.
- **Campaigns** – Breakthrough creative ideas across channels to grab attention and drive action.
- **Digital Experience** – Website design, digital product experiences, and media planning & buying.
- **Employee Engagement** – Internal communications and culture-building programs.
- **Research & Insights** – Proprietary tools for audience research, segmentation, and data-driven strategy.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue estimated at $40 M (based on LinkedIn data); 66 employees (+12.4% YoY); 8 active job postings (up 700% YoY)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Acquired by Innovatus Capital Partners (2021). Clients include Google, Nike, IBM. Member of Meet The People, an international family of independent agencies.
- **Growth Signals**: 40+ years in business, 300+ industry awards, 1,000+ notable clients. Headcount growth of 12.4% year-over-year. Increase in job postings signals expanding capabilities.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated one-roof model**: strategy, creative, data science, and technology all under one roof, enabling speed and coherence.
- **Low-ego culture**: described as “low ego, never precious, never satisfied” – a collaborative partner that moves at the speed of business.
- **Proprietary tools**: Audience research and segmentation tools that give clients a data edge.
- **Long‑standing client relationships**: 40+ years working with some of the world’s most admired brands.
- **Member of Meet The People**: Access to a global network of agencies while retaining independence.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Helping brands turn creative into measurable business growth – delivering speed to market, cultural relevance, and performance. Emphasis on brand systems, campaigns, and media strategies that break through and scale consistently.
- **Growth direction**: Expanding digital and data-driven capabilities, deepening client partnerships, and leveraging hybrid work to attract top talent across Chicago, New York, and San Francisco.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “We’re forever curious, never precious. Never satisfied.” Emphasis on collaboration, diversity, equity, and inclusion – with a commitment to fostering complex conversations and overcoming unconscious biases.
- **Work model**: Hybrid work schedule with offices in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Reasonable working hours and flexible time-off policy.
- **Perks & benefits**: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) match; screen-free Fridays; evolving happiness and health policies.
- **Engineering/creative culture**: Design-driven environment with roles in strategy, design, writing, project management, and technology. Salaries (from Indeed) include Senior Writer ($90k–$100k), Strategy Director ($140k–$180k), and Staff Designer ($60k–$70k). Freelance opportunities also available.
- **Growth opportunities**: With 8 open positions and a 700% YoY increase in job postings, the agency is actively scaling and offers room for career advancement.

## Sources
1. [VSA Partners Careers Page](https://www.vsapartners.com/careers)
2. [VSA Partners Main Website](https://www.vsapartners.com/)
3. [VSA Partners About Page](https://www.vsapartners.com/about)
4. [VSA Partners LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vsa-partners)
5. [VSA Partners on Indeed](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Vsa-Partners)

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