Sr. Associate Design Director

About the role

A hands-on Associate Design Director to join our team. Associate Design Directors are design experts and experienced leaders who use their craft competency, theory and insights to exceed client goals while working within or helping to define brand design systems. They operate alongside creative teams—providing a client-facing fluency in visual systems—in order to produce industry-leading advertising content for static, animated, and web mediums.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a mastery of visual design across several design disciplines
• Lead projects with a focus on storytelling through motion design
• Execute and manage original, persuasive, conceptual and visually compelling design work in line with agency and brand standards
• Apply design rigor to provide mentorship to cross-functional teams with the goal of accelerating skill progression
• Inspire, oversee and provide mentorship to design staff with the goal of accelerating skill progression through a culture of collaboration, experimentation and knowledge sharing
• Fluently speak the language of design with both clients and creatives enabling effective feedback and direction
• Work closely with creative staff to ensure design work goes above and beyond the expected
• Maintain and promote an internal awareness of industry design references and standards with a strong focus on processes and tools
• Model a sense of ownership that elevates the standards and quality of all work achieved by the designers
• Demonstrate an ability to work on multiple projects at the same time while maintaining clear vision of priorities
• Lead projects and oversee a team to ensure that work is client-ready at all phases of their projects
• Manage at least two direct reports to help shape and grow their careers as it relates to their hard and soft skill development

Requirements

• Demonstrate a high level of craftsmanship in design, with expertise working on design solutions as it relates to brand identities, campaigns and visual systems across multiple platforms
• Expertise in communicating brand narratives through storyboards/styleframes, web design, illustration, or a combination thereof
• Experience developing novel concepts for motion design, while possessing strong visual design capabilities, with a proven record leading animation projects alongside animators
• Create original illustration work, that follows brand guidelines, while introducing a unique approach and point of view
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills
• Imaginative, collaborative, conceptual and curious
• An optimistic outlook toward client revisions, knowing when and how to offer opportunities to push boundaries creatively
• Master of Adobe’s visual design programs (Photoshop, Illustrator)
• A comfortability in Figma
• Additional programs and skills are great to come with (motion/After Effects, 3D/Cinema 4D, illustration, prototyping/Webflow)

Qualifications

Qualified applicants will include a resume and a statement of interest that lets us learn a little more about you.

Skills

• Web Design
• Web Design / UX
• Website Programming
• Website Project Management

Benefits

Company benefits include health, dental, matching 401k, paid vacation and holidays, and more.

Pay

This role is leveled as an L7, Associate Director.

Schedule

We are a remote first organization with a “work from wherever (within the US)” approach.