Creative Director, Digital
Red Antler · New York, NY · 2 mo ago
Art & CreativeFull-time
About the role
We’re looking for a Creative Director to lead our digital team, including UX and Visual Design, and partner with our strategists, brand designers, and art directors to guide and shape our next wave of digital launches for companies looking to change the way we eat, shop, explore, and live.
As a Creative Director on our digital team, you'll use your experience and creative intuition to push our work to new places and bring our clients’ ideas to life. You have a passion for bringing new products to market and know what it takes to get the next big thing off the ground. You want to see your work in the world.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the quality and efficacy of our digital team’s work.
- Push creative teams to imagine new ways to bring digital experiences to life through interaction and content.
- Partner with interdisciplinary leads (copywriters, brand designers, art directors, developers) to build vision for undefined digital experiences across every customer touchpoint.
- Build trust and guide clients through our creative process.
- Define and establish digital processes that align with both client and internal needs.
- Act as an arbiter of our digital vision, fostering this vision within the team and agency.
- Push digital design to tell evocative brand stories that create emotional connections with consumers.
- Collaborate with our business development team to advise on digital opportunities with potential clients, expressing our distinct digital POV.
- Scope projects, consult on deliverables, and optimize project team casting during planning stages.
- Mentor and grow our team of digital designers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of digital design experience working at a creative agency, design studio, or in-house creative teams.
- 3+ years in previous leadership roles.
- Killer design aesthetic and excellent handle on user experience and digital strategy.
- Solid understanding of UX design principles and prototyping tools.
- Polished portfolio showcasing UI/visual design capabilities.
- Strong product design instincts, with experience designing user-centered digital experiences across web, apps, and digital products.
- Ability to balance brand expression with usability, leveraging user insights, testing, and iterative design to drive engagement and business outcomes.
- Fluency in emerging AI-powered creative workflows (e.g., Figma AI, generative image/video platforms, rapid prototyping) to accelerate ideation, design systems, and production—without compromising craft or strategic thinking.
Skills
- Strong grasp of CSS, Javascript, HTML5, and front-end development trends (a plus).
- Mentorship and leadership abilities.