Senior Design Director

Responsibilities

• Execute & Scale the Visual Identity: Drive the day-to-day tactical execution and expression of the overall Verizon visual identity, ensuring world-class design consistency and technical excellence across every consumer touchpoint.
• Build Design Systems & Toolkits: Get hands-on in the creation and rollout of comprehensive brand design systems, asset libraries, and scalable toolkits that enable internal and external teams to build unified assets efficiently.
• Deploy Campaign Graphic Identities: Collaborate closely with campaign creative teams to build out and scale bespoke graphic identities for high-profile brand and integrated Above-The-Line (ATL) campaigns, seamlessly operationalizing big conceptual ideas.
• Collaborate & Guide: Partner with the Sr. Design Director to mentor, guide, and elevate one dedicated Graphic Designer, taking an active role in their technical development and protecting the integrity of their craft.
• Push Brand Boundaries: Honor the foundational principles of the Verizon brand while constantly finding fresh, daring ways to evolve its visual identity through a modern, sophisticated design lens.
• Articulate Your Vision: Confidently present, defend, and articulate design executions, visual mechanics, and systematic choices to internal creative leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Seven or more years of experience within top-tier design studios, advertising agencies, or world-class in-house creative teams, with a standout portfolio showcasing tactical execution of comprehensive brand design systems and graphic design.
• Proven experience executing, maintaining, and scaling brand systems for a major Fortune 100 brand or large-scale enterprise.
• A deep, uncompromising passion for typography, layout, photography, color theory, and graphic design in general.
• An elite technical eye for detail and understanding of the logic required to build scalable design mechanics.
• Extensive hands-on experience building out detailed brand books, design toolkits, mechanicals, and style guides that translate seamlessly across print, digital, motion, and experiential platforms.

Qualifications

• Even Better If You Have:
• Seven or more years of experience within top-tier design studios, advertising agencies, or world-class in-house creative teams, with a standout portfolio showcasing tactical execution of comprehensive brand design systems and graphic design.
• Proven experience executing, maintaining, and scaling brand systems for a major Fortune 100 brand or large-scale enterprise.
• A deep, uncompromising passion for typography, layout, photography, color theory, and graphic design in general.
• An elite technical eye for detail and understanding of the logic required to build scalable design mechanics.
• Extensive hands-on experience building out detailed brand books, design toolkits, mechanicals, and style guides that translate seamlessly across print, digital, motion, and experiential platforms.

Skills

• Master practitioner and systems builder with the graphic design genius to execute the overall Verizon visual identity flawlessly.
• Treat AI as an expansive, collaborative canvas to supercharge creative development pipeline.
• Experience leveraging advanced AI tools to accelerate brainstorming, execute rapid visual prototyping, and smash through routine generation bottlenecks.
• Constantly find fresh, daring ways to evolve the visual identity of the Verizon brand through a modern, sophisticated design lens.

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance.
• Matched 401(k) savings plan.
• Up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Tuition assistance.
• Other incentives.

Pay

• The annual salary range for the New York location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $115,500.00 - $201,000.00.

Schedule

• This is a hybrid role, with a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager.