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About the Role

The Principal, Visual Design role requires a visionary approach, collaborating with the creative team to not only meet client needs but to establish new benchmarks for conceptual and visual design excellence. A core responsibility is to challenge the team's thinking, pushing beyond conventional problem-solving to deliver transformative, best-in-class solutions. As part of the creative leadership team, you will play a crucial role in executing the overarching creative and design strategy, ensuring the team's activities align with and significantly contribute to the organization's strategic short and long-term success.

Responsibilities

Closely collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of talented people.
Lead and mentor the creative team, fostering a collaborative, optimistic, and proactive culture.
Bring a fresh, insightful point of view that inspires both the internal team and the client, putting the team and client first.
Define and implement successful design strategies, setting high visual and conceptual standards for all company efforts (including websites, branding, UX, and content).
Generate strategic insights and moodboards to facilitate creative innovation.
Drive complex digital projects from kick-off to completion, ensuring the team's deliverables exceed client expectations and stay within budget and deadlines.
Establish project direction, craft guidelines, and assist with production as needed.
Identify key client decision-makers and leverage excellent interpersonal skills to grow and maintain these relationships, collaborating across all internal departments and external stakeholders to achieve desired results.
Actively contribute to the design discipline through mentoring, conversation, and proposing ideas to elevate company operations and improve processes.

Requirements

5+ years of proven experience in design and interactive work for leading brands, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Mastery of Figma (including components, variants, and auto layout) and familiarity with essential collaboration tools (e.g., Hubspot, Google Suite, Slack).
Strong knowledge and experience in visual design, user-centered experience design, interaction design, and brand development.
Experience developing and maintaining a robust design system.
Demonstrated ability to provide strategic vision and creative inspiration to large, diverse teams.
Excellent public speaking and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex information to clients and internal stakeholders.
Highly detail-oriented, proactive, comfortable navigating complex organizations, and focused on strategic problem-solving and process efficiency.

Skills

Figma
Hubspot
Google Suite
Slack
Visual Design
User-Centered Experience Design
Interaction Design
Brand Development
Design Systems
Public Speaking
Presentation Skills
Strategic Problem-Solving
Process Efficiency

Location

US Remote

Work Type

Remote
Full-time

Experience Level

Principal
5+ years of experience
2+ years in a leadership role

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Salary/Compensations

$96,200—$145,855 USD

Benefits

Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
401k plan, plus matching
PTO
Paid Company Holidays
Parental Leave

About the Company

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI.
We are a collaborative, open-door, best-idea-wins environment that fosters personal and company growth and has fun doing it.
We are a B Corp-certified company passionate about purpose-driven work. Our hope is that you can feel good about the contributions DEPT® is making to the world and we always have an open door for your ideas in making the world a better place.

Equal Opportunity

DEPT® is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We believe our work is its best when our people feel safe and free to be themselves. We’re committed to an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and selection process and workplace, regardless of anyone’s identity, background, beliefs, lifestyle or disabilities. So tell us about any accommodations you need. It’s totally confidential and only used to make sure you feel fully supported at every step.
DEPT® participates in E-Verify, meaning your Form I-9 information will be sent to the federal government to confirm you are authorized to work in the U.S.
At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.
Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine.
We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.
Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.