Experience Design Lead (AI Focus)

About the role

This independent creative agency is seeking a highly creative and innovative senior digital design leader with 12+ years of experience, some of which must be at a top creative, branding, digital, or experience agency. The ideal candidate is a hands-on creative leader who still loves making great work and is a doer.

Responsibilities

• Partner with strategists, creatives, technologists, writers, and clients to create unforgettable brand experiences across digital, physical, and emerging platforms.
• Help shape breakthrough work for complex clients.
• Influence the agency's next chapter.
• Mentor a growing design team.
• Spend time experimenting with entirely new products and ideas that don't exist yet.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in UX/UI, digital experiences, websites, brand systems, and storytelling.
• Comfortable working across strategy, technology, creative, and client-facing presentations.
• Ability to turn complicated ideas into simple, elegant experiences.
• Energized by ambiguity and excited by problems that don't have obvious answers.
• Naturally thinks in concepts, not just deliverables.
• Embraces emerging technology thoughtfully and knows when it enhances an experience (and when it doesn't).
• AI is something you're playing with in your free time.
• Bonus points if you have a physical or digital artifact you made that you can send us demonstrating your out-of-the-box creativity.

Qualifications

• You're a hands-on creative leader who still loves making great work and is a doer.
• Comfortable working across strategy, technology, creative, and client-facing presentations.
• Ability to turn complicated ideas into simple, elegant experiences.
• Energized by ambiguity and excited by problems that don't have obvious answers.
• Naturally thinks in concepts, not just deliverables.
• Embraces emerging technology thoughtfully and knows when it enhances an experience (and when it doesn't).
• AI is something you're playing with in your free time.
• Bonus points if you have a physical or digital artifact you made that you can send us demonstrating your out-of-the-box creativity.

Skills

• Deep expertise in UX/UI, digital experiences, websites, brand systems, and storytelling.
• Comfortable working across strategy, technology, creative, and client-facing presentations.
• Ability to turn complicated ideas into simple, elegant experiences.
• Energized by ambiguity and excited by problems that don't have obvious answers.
• Naturally thinks in concepts, not just deliverables.
• Embraces emerging technology thoughtfully and knows when it enhances an experience (and when it doesn't).
• AI is something you're playing with in your free time.

Benefits

• Freedom to experiment, the runway to build, and the opportunity to influence the future of an agency that's betting on bold thinkers, not followers.
• The chance to work on complex projects and make an impact on the industry.
• The opportunity to mentor a growing design team and bring your unique perspective to the table.

Pay

$200,000 to $250,000 per year

Schedule

Full-time