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About the Role

We are seeking a Design Director to lead an embedded, AI-native creative studio for a global B2B tech brand. You will be responsible for scaling the client's vision by producing flawless assets across regions, channels, and formats, directing a multi-disciplinary team, and setting quality standards. This role combines creative excellence with operational rigor and empowers teams to achieve their best work at scale.

Responsibilities

• Direct and develop a multi-level creative team, running internal critiques and building a culture of high standards.
• Contribute directly to concepting and design, elevating work at every stage of production.
• Act as the studio's final quality check, reviewing and auditing all creative work before client delivery.
• Ensure all assets are faithful to the client's brand guidelines, voice, and creative vision.
• Develop team members' skills and creative output through coaching and feedback.
• Identify opportunities to improve creative processes and introduce smarter ways of working.
• Build an inclusive, collaborative team culture.
• Partner with the OLIVER Business Director to manage studio operations, timelines, and client experience.
• Maintain strong working relationships with client creative directors, account leads, producers, and project managers.
• Manage and prioritize team workloads across high-volume delivery cycles, adapting to shifting priorities.
• Lead the integration of generative AI tools into creative workflows, setting quality standards and governance.
• Drive AI adoption and share best practices across the team and the wider OLIVER network.
• Apply an agentic approach to complex creative and operational challenges.

Requirements

• A strong portfolio demonstrating brand system expertise, campaign craft, and multi-format creative execution at scale.
• Proven experience leading and developing multi-disciplinary creative teams in high-volume, fast-paced environments.
• Deep expertise in brand identity and creative systems, with a track record of maintaining quality and consistency across diverse markets, channels, and formats.
• Experience leading creative quality processes, including running critiques, setting standards, and developing team members' output.
• A collaborative, stakeholder-savvy approach, with the ability to build strong working relationships with senior clients, account teams, and cross-functional partners.
• Strategic awareness of how generative AI can enhance creative quality and delivery efficiency.
• Judgment to evaluate AI outputs critically and maintain creative standards.
• Advanced proficiency with generative AI tools (e.g., Midjourney, Adobe Firefly) and experience building AI-assisted workflows.
• Expert proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Strategic integration of generative AI across studio projects and operations.
• Experience setting AI quality standards and governance at studio or team level.
• Agentic leadership: a systematic, goal-oriented approach to complex creative and operational challenges.
• Drives AI adoption and shares best practice across teams and into client partnerships.
• Strong understanding of AI capabilities and limitations, with rigorous human oversight and critical evaluation of outputs.

Skills

• Brand system expertise
• Campaign craft
• Multi-format creative execution
• Team leadership
• Creative quality processes
• Stakeholder management
• Generative AI integration
• AI quality standards
• Agentic leadership
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Figma
• Midjourney
• Adobe Firefly

Location

• Remote (PST)
• San Francisco Bay Area

Work Type

• Remote
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Director level

Salary/Compensations

• $185,250—$213,750 USD

About the Company

• Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands.
• We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries.
• Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.
• As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work.
• Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
• OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets.
• Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.

Equal Opportunity

• OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.
• All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.