About the Company:

Stable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises to move their business forward. We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

We’re a privately held, Great Place to Work Certified Company™ with a multi-award-winning culture and an impressive 10-plus-year trajectory of sustainable growth. At Stable Kernel, we support our employees in ways that help them do some of the best work of their lives.

About the Role:

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of digital products across a range of industries. You’ll drive the creation of thoughtful, intuitive, and engaging experiences that not only meet user needs but also align with business goals. Your work will directly influence the success of our clients and the evolution of our design practice.

We’re seeking a Senior designer who brings a rare blend of strategic thinking, creative curiosity, and practical execution. You’re confident without ego, empathetic by nature, and thrive in collaborative, cross-functional environments. You understand how to balance ideal experiences with real-world constraints — and know when to push the boundaries.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Technical Impact: 
• Designing end-to-end mobile and desktop experiences, from discovery and wireframing through high-fidelity mockups and interaction specifications.
• Creating and maintaining a component library and design system that ensures consistency across the application.
• Conducting user research, usability testing, and design validation to inform and iterate on design decisions.
• Collaborating closely with engineers to ensure designs are implemented with high fidelity and optimal performance.
• Designing for accessibility, responsive layout, and platform-specific conventions on iOS,Android, and web.
• Participating in design reviews and providing thoughtful feedback to peers.
• Business Alignment: 
• Understanding and aligning with project objectives, effectively balancing leadership and collaboration to shape design approaches that support overall goals.
• Delivering customer value through design, identifying improvement opportunities within their scope and contributing enhancements that elevate the user experience.
• Supporting project estimation and planning, identifying gaps, risks, and assumptions, and working with team members to ensure accurate planning and costing.
• Partnering with sales and business development teams, offering design expertise and support for scoping and client-facing engagements when needed.
• Interacting with Others: 
• Fostering strong collaboration across teams, facilitating communication within project teams, and providing support to fellow designers to ensure alignment and momentum.
• Influencing through insight and mentorship, actively sharing knowledge, and collaborating on solutions with other designers.
• Serving as a design expert on project teams, balancing guidance from senior designers with mentorship for junior team members while confidently advising stakeholders and providing clear design direction.
• Communicating project status proactively, escalating unforeseen challenges, and working with leadership to resolve blockers and maintain progress. 
• Autonomy & Ambiguity: 
• Taking ownership of design initiatives, delivering high-quality work while aligning with the broader project, departmental, and company objectives.
• Navigating ambiguity with support, demonstrating comfort in uncertain situations while collaborating with peers to plan, structure, and execute complex design solutions.
• Contributing to roadmapping and project planning, leading efforts to define phases and timelines with input from cross-functional team members.
• Problem-Solving:
• Driving problem-solving at multiple levels, addressing challenges across project, team, and department contexts with strategic thinking and a solution-oriented mindset.
• Identifying and planning for risks proactively, anticipating potential challenges, and integrating mitigation strategies into project planning.
• Escalating issues proactively to the appropriate team members, including Project Manager or Product Design leadership, to address blockers and maintain project momentum.
• Leadership:
• Contributing to process improvement efforts, actively collaborating with the team to refine workflows and enhance team efficiency.
• Advocating for design best practices, staying current with industry standards and sharing insights to elevate the team’s overall craft.
• Mentoring and collaborating with peers, providing guidance to base-level designers and contributing to the growth and development of fellow senior designers.
• Leading design efforts across projects, typically serving as a project lead unless partnered with a lead designer, and flexibly supporting design work based on project structure and team needs.

Intimate, Working Familiarity With:

• Figma is essential, with working knowledge of additional design and prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Sketch, and Zeplin.
• Understanding of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and Android’s Material Design principles, ensuring platform-consistent, accessible, user-centered experiences.
• Design system creation and component library management.
• User research methods: interviews, usability testing, journey mapping.
• Collaboration with engineering teams in an agile delivery environment.
• Accessibility standards and inclusive design practices for mobile.
• Google and Microsoft Office Suite to create compelling client presentations.

General Requirements:

• 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years focused on native or cross-platform mobile apps.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong mobile design work across iOS and Android.
• Degree in a design field or relevant experience. 

Nice to Haves:

• Experience designing for retail, e-commerce, or loyalty applications.
• Familiarity with React Native or cross-platform design considerations.
• Experience with motion design and micro-interactions.
• Background working with professional (B2B) and consumer (B2C) user personas alongside consumer flows.

A Bit More Info:

Minimum Base Compensation: $65 per hour

This is a contract position.

Stable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.

Minimal travel is associated with this role.

*Note – We are not sponsoring employment visas at this time. If you are currently in possession of an employment visa, it will need to be effective for at least 3 years from the date of your application for your candidacy for employment to be considered.

Stable Kernel’s culture is inclusive and expansive. We celebrate diversity in its many glorious forms and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender role orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

However, we will discriminate against those unwilling to comply with the practice of our company values:

• we work with integrity always
• we respect our work and each other
• we are dedicated to life-long learning and sharing
• we stay hungry for new challenges

If you are like-minded in this regard, we hope you will apply. We look forward to meeting you.

Burson Creative:

You’ll be joining a creative team that’s been recognized with Cannes Lions, Clios, One Show, New York Festivals, SABER, and PRWeek awards, but more importantly, a team that’s curious, collaborative, and constantly pushing each other to do work that earns attention.

The Creative team works across the full Burson client roster to ideate, develop, and produce earned-first campaigns, building original ideas that cut through culture not just the noise. Our work connects people and brands by digging deeper, imagining more, and creating campaigns and content designed to live anywhere and travel everywhere. 

We’ve intentionally brought together a mix of designers, writers, producers, and creators from different backgrounds, cultures, and points of view, because better work comes from diverse voices challenging each other.

We’re looking for people who love what they do, value different perspectives, and are excited to roll up their sleeves to help push our creative even further.

Check out our latest work here. https://www.bursonglobal.com/locations/us/creative-careers-at-burson-us

Senior Creative

We’re looking for a Senior Creative who lives at the center of culture—someone who refreshes Versus, Hypebeast, Complex and niche corners of the internet like it’s email, and pulls inspiration from everywhere: music, fashion, internet culture, sport, and everything in between.

You’re a culture-obsessed tastemaker with range. You move fluidly between sport, music, fashion, and subcultures, understanding how moments spark, spread, and evolve. You don’t just clock trends—you see them forming early and know how to shape them into ideas people actually care about.

Crucially, you’re earned first. You know how to turn cultural tension into moments that earn headlines with an angle, a stunt, a social series, a brand act, etc. that gets picked up by press, creators and fans—not just pushed out as an ad.

You’re a conceptual thinker first, with the craft to bring ideas to life. Whether through art direction, writing, or both, you know how to build a world, name it, and express it across formats—from social to IRL to everything in between.

If you live for big ideas, big drops, big games, big stories, this is your lane.

What you'll do:

Concept & Craft

• Build big, integrated, earned first ideas
  From campaign platforms to activations to buzzy content series’, you’ll connect big ideas to culture with visuals and/or narratives that feel native to fans and newsworthy to editors.
• Drive stories in earned and social
  Develop ideas designed to travel through headlines, creators, fan pages and social feeds, not just paid media, starting with the question: what’s the headline, what’s the moment people will share?
• Own the story and the look
  Define the creative world for our clients: tone of voice, visual language, references, and how it flexes across social, digital, PR, broadcast, OOH and experiential. You know what will actually move fans, not just tick boxes.
• Trendjack with taste
  Spot cultural tensions, narratives and live moments in music, sports, and wider culture where brands can genuinely show up—and turn them into sharp, timely concepts and executions.
• Pitch like you mean it
  Sell ideas in a way that gets clients hyped: sharp decks, strong rationale, clear links to fandom, culture and earned impact. You can talk kit culture, collabs, drops and highlight reels with equal confidence.
• Ship with taste and precision
  Drive work from sketch to launch—across film, design, social and experiential—protecting the idea, the craft and the details (copy, visuals, rights, legal) all the way through.
• Chase work that wins
  Create award-worthy projects end to end, turning raw fan insight and cultural tension into ideas that blow up in culture and land on juries’ shortlists.

Sport, Culture & Influence

• Be the in-house culture brain
  Bring a deep understanding of how culture moves across platforms and communities—from music and fashion to sport, gaming and internet subcultures. You know how audiences show up, what they care about, and what’s coming next.
• Live the feeds
  Constantly mine platforms like Versus, Hypebeast, Complex, TikTok, Reddit, IG fan pages and emerging spaces for signals, storylines and opportunities for brands to plug into in ways that feel real.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Be a true creative partner
  Act as a key creative lead on one or more accounts, plugged into client challenges, fan behavior and the sport and culture landscape—helping shape briefs, not just answer them.
• Help grow the agency
  Bring the same energy to pitches and organic growth that you bring to campaigns: spot opportunities, jump on them, and help win new work with ideas that feel right for fans and right for the brand.
• Raise the creative bar
  Lead initiatives that level up the agency’s creative reputation—sharing references, pushing craft, and championing ideas that belong in culture, not just in decks.
• Inspire the room
  Bring energy, taste and a positive, no ego attitude that lifts teammates, collaborators and clients. You make the work better and the process more fun.
• Develop the squad
  Manage and mentor junior creatives and freelancers, giving clear direction and useful feedback. Work tightly with strategy, account and production to land joined up, earned ready, impossible to ignore ideas.

Experience that contributes to success:

• 5+ years in the game
  Experience in a creative role at an agency, in house, or anywhere that contributes to a portfolio that proves you can think and execute at a high level.
• Culture-first, with a point of view
  A deep, demonstrable obsession with culture in all its forms—sport, music, fashion, entertainment and beyond. You understand how audiences move, how trends take shape, and how to translate that into sharp, brand-right ideas.
• Dual threat portfolioWork that shows you have an appreciation for both:
  • Visual craft: design, photography direction, film, social/digital experiences.
  • Word craft:  scripts, social content, conceptual storytelling, impactful lines and platform thinking. Ideally with multiple pieces showing off your love for culture.
• Earned first mindset: Examples of ideas built to earn—PR stunts, cultural activations, social moments, partnerships or drops that generated real coverage, conversation and fan engagement.
• Conceptual Thinker: Proven ability to develop strategic and innovative concepts that not only solve business challenges but specifically leverage and reflect the dynamic relationship between music, sports, and wider pop culture trends.
• Communication Master: Excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills, capable of articulating a creative vision to diverse audiences.
• Production Savvy: Experience guiding projects through all phases of production, understanding the nuances of visual and written content creation.
• Team Player: A collaborative spirit with the ability to work effectively across disciplines and inspire those around you.

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Burson is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.