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title: 'Senior Designer at Active Theory'
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# Senior Designer at Active Theory

- **Company:** Active Theory
- **Location:** Global
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/activetheory/ee5af1cb-f3c5-4df7-ae53-aad842745413

## Job description

Reports to: Associate Creative Director or Creative Director Location and Timezone: Remote. North America or Latin America, friendly to EST Works closely with: Creative, Production, Tech

## The Role

The Senior Designer role at Active Theory is for an experienced practitioner who has moved beyond core execution into a position of project ownership and creative influence. You are expected to lead design tracks with a high degree of independence, translating complex briefs into cohesive visual systems. While you work closely with Creative Directors, you are the primary driver of the visual craft on your projects, ensuring excellence from concept to final delivery.

Core Responsibilities

Ideation Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with the team Ideation and concepting both individually and with the team Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps Prepare concepts in static and animated forms Demonstrate value and understanding of 2D and 3D visual communication in conceptual work Execution Find creative ways to solve user challenges (e.g. usability, findability) Mockup and design digital executions according to the highest industry standards Animate concepts, layouts, and user interface with high taste for contemporary Create designs by leading the look and feel of every experience, beginning with thorough research of the project domain, brand and client Use animation tools to produce special effects, 2D assets and complete, immersive, experiences Ability to integrate AI-driven tools into creative processes

## Team Collaboration

Assist in knowledge transfer of good design and animation practice and to other team members including providing guidance for junior designers and fellow designers Communicate status updates regularly with Producers and the broader project team(s) Collaborate within small-to-medium sized teams to resolve issues and dependencies to deliver to client expectations Participate in knowledge sharing and lessons learned sessions from project experiences

What Success Looks Like

- The work feels cohesive, intentional, is confidently designed and consistently meets highest industry standards

- Teammates experience optimistic collaboration and consistent quality of output

- Performance at conceptual through final delivery parts of the project

## About Active Theory

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Active Theory is a creative technology and experience studio that builds digital experiences for global brands by blending story, art, and technology.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Partnership)
- **Headquarters**: Venice, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Creative Technology, Digital Experience Design, Interactive Advertising
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise brands and agencies seeking high‑craft, immersive digital campaigns and platforms
- **Mission statement**: To blend story, art, and technology as an in‑house team of passionate makers, delivering award‑winning work through quality and performance.

## Products & Services
Active Theory offers a full‑service creative technology studio, not a discrete product. Their offerings include:
- **Digital Experience Design & Development**: Custom websites, interactive campaigns, and platform experiences for brands such as Spotify.
- **Creative Direction & Concepting**: Strategy, art direction, and creative leadership for digital projects.
- **Technical Direction & Engineering**: Full‑stack web development using JavaScript, Vue, Node.js, and their proprietary internal framework **Hydra**, plus cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS).
- **Experiential Campaigns & Digital Installations**: Physical‑digital hybrid experiences and large‑scale interactive installations.
- **Technology Consulting**: Feasibility, scoping, and technical architecture for multi‑stakeholder programs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: 37 employees (+31% YoY growth as of 2026), fully distributed across 12 countries.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No investors disclosed. Key long‑term client: **Spotify** (collaborating for over a decade on projects like Song Psychic, Playlist in a Bottle, Wrapped for Artists).
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring for multiple senior roles (Executive Creative Director, Associate Creative Director, Associate Technical Director); expanding into new geographies (offices in US and Netherlands); consistent year‑over‑year headcount growth.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Technology**: Internal framework **Hydra** built specifically for high‑performance, interactive web experiences.
- **Deep Client Relationships**: Ten‑year partnership with Spotify demonstrates trust and repeat business.
- **Award‑Winning Craft**: Known for delivering visually stunning, technically complex work that wins industry recognition (Awwwards, FWA).
- **Distributed, High‑Talent Team**: Employees drawn from top digital studios (Resn, UNIT9, Stink Studios, Jam3) and alumni go to Apple, Google, and other tech leaders.

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing to deliver cutting‑edge creative technology for major brands.
- Scaling the team with senior leadership roles (Creative Director, Technical Director) to maintain quality while growing.
- Exploring AI tools and workflows to improve efficiency without sacrificing craft.
- Deepening expertise in client‑side infrastructure and platform‑level builds.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High trust, autonomy, and ownership over how work gets done; highly collaborative and thoughtful team.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Fully remote, with preference for Americas time zones (EST–PST). Must be able to attend US‑based calls; some EU candidates considered.
- **Notable Perks**: Work with some of the world’s most recognized brands; opportunity to shape technical direction and developer culture at a growing studio; competitive compensation (e.g., Associate Technical Director: $120k–$130k/year).
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on craft, quality, and performance; regular dev reviews, mentorship, and internal initiatives.

## Sources
1. [activetheory.net](https://activetheory.net/)
2. [jobs.lever.co/activetheory](https://jobs.lever.co/activetheory/bc37080a-f495-47e5-9be2-c914e270ac13)
3. [linkedin.com/company/active-theory](https://linkedin.com/company/active-theory)

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