--- title: 'Senior Designer at Samba' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-designer-samba-los-angeles-bnr71ms0xn47' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-14' --- # Senior Designer at Samba - **Company:** Samba - **Location:** Los Angeles, CA - **Compensation:** $120k–$140k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/sambatv/385130f2-9870-44a4-b7c2-35f8a7a39af8 ## Job description Samba is a media intelligence company. We know what the world is watching, reading, and thinking about — in real time, at scale, across every screen. Our data exists with the consent of over a billion people, organized into the most complete picture of consumer attention ever built. The biggest brands in the world use that picture to make smarter decisions. We think it’s the most interesting data asset on the planet, because it’s the most culturally relevant. ## 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. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO - 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. ## WHO YOU ARE - 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. Samba is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We strive to empower connection with one another, reflect the communities we serve, and tackle meaningful projects that make a real impact. Samba may collect personal information directly from you, as a job applicant, Samba may also receive personal information from third parties, for example, in connection with a background, employment or reference check, in accordance with the applicable law. For further details, please see Samba's Applicant Privacy Policy. For residents of the EU , Samba Inc. is the data controller. ## About Samba ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Samba (formerly Samba TV) is a media intelligence company that uses AI and first-party deterministic data from 1.5 billion people to power cross-screen TV and digital advertising measurement, targeting, and analytics for the world's largest brands, publishers, and platforms. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2008 - **Founders**: Ashwin Navin (Co-founder & CEO), Alvir Navin (Co-founder & COO) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Media Intelligence / Advertising Technology / Data & Analytics - **Target Customers**: B2B — primarily Enterprise (global brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms like Disney, Havas Media, and "the vast majority of top global brands") - **Mission Statement**: Unite TV, digital, and behavioral data through AI to power faster, more accurate media decisions. ## Products & Services - **Samba Analytics**: Independent cross-screen measurement using first-party data for deduplicated reach, frequency, and performance outcomes. Allows optimization of campaigns while they are still in-flight. - **Samba Audiences**: Exclusive audience segments and Private Marketplaces (PMPs) built from Samba's deterministic cross-screen signals for effective targeting. - **Samba Knowledge Graph**: AI-powered mapping of interests, behaviors, and purchase intent, linking content to 1.5 billion real people, devices, and households. - **Samba ID**: A universal identity solution linking content to real people and devices across screens. - **Samba AI**: Contextually analyzes and indexes all media content, including brand logo detection on TV. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed - **Total Funding**: $75.7M USD across 9 rounds - Last known round: Series B ($30M, June 2017, led by Union Grove Venture Partners and Disney Accelerator) - Other notable rounds: Series A ($7M, February 2012, led by August Capital) - **Key Metric**: Owns first-party TV and web data for 1.5 billion people globally. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: August Capital, Union Grove Venture Partners, Disney Accelerator. Strategic clients include Disney, Havas Media, and "every platform and publisher you need." - **Growth Signals**: Acquired Semasio in 2024, becoming the only provider owning both TV and web first-party data. Rebranded from "Samba TV" to "Samba" in 2026. Global workforce of 251 employees (+20.1% YoY growth). Operations span 6 countries with 13 offices. ## Competitive Advantages - **First-Party Data Moat**: Nearly two decades of proprietary, deterministic data from smart TVs (24 brands, 48M devices) and web (1.5B people), creating a unique and un-copyable dataset. - **Full-Funnel Integration**: The only provider to combine TV and web first-party data (after acquiring Semasio), offering planning, measurement, and activation in one platform. - **AI-Powered Knowledge Graph**: Goes beyond traditional media measurement by mapping interests, behaviors, and purchase intent, enabling contextual analysis without relying on third-party cookies. ## Strategic Focus - **Platform Expansion**: Evolving from a TV data provider into a comprehensive "media intelligence" company (rebranded in 2026). - **Cross-Screen Unification**: Connecting TV and digital data to provide a complete view of audience behavior across all screens. - **AI & Contextual Intelligence**: Deepening investment in AI for content analysis, brand detection, and predictive audience targeting. - **Global Scale**: Operating across six continents and expanding direct partnerships with major platforms and publishers. ## Why Work Here - **Founder-Led Culture**: Described as having "startup intensity and enterprise impact," with a "culture that values ownership over hierarchy and outcomes over optics." - **Global & Distributed**: Teams span San Francisco (HQ), New York, London, Hamburg, Sydney, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Warsaw, Taipei, and Amsterdam. Officed with a global, collaborative ethos. - **Engineering & Data-First**: Ships products that "touch billions of signals daily." A strong emphasis on data science, engineering, and product roles. - **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive base salary, equity participation, performance bonuses, generous parental leave, flexible PTO, annual learning budgets, home office stipend, and best-in-class hardware. - **Culture Values** (from company career page): Determined & Resilient, Self-Aware, Naturally Curious, Low Ego, Results Oriented. - **Employee Rating**: 3.9/5.0 on LinkedIn (172 reviews), with Work-Life Balance at 3.9, Compensation at 3.8, and Culture at 3.8. ## Sources 1. [samba.com](https://samba.com/about-samba) — About Samba / Company History 2. [samba.com](https://samba.com/careers) — Careers Page / Culture & Benefits 3. [samba.com](https://samba.com/) — Home Page / Product & Platform Overview 4. [linkedin.com/company/sambatv](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sambatv) — LinkedIn Profile (Company Details, Size, Financials) 5. 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