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About the Role
The Associate Director, Visual Design is a cornerstone of creative leadership, tasked with defining the aesthetic North Star for the organization. This role requires a strategic visionary who can translate business objectives into world-class visual ecosystems, redefining benchmarks. You will sit at the intersection of brand, product, and strategy, ensuring visual identity is cohesive, future-proof, and disruptive. You are expected to be a "force multiplier", elevating the output of every designer through rigorous critique, high-level systems thinking, and an unwavering commitment to craft. As part of the creative leadership team, you will play a crucial role in executing the overarching creative and design strategy, ensuring team activities align with and contribute to the organization's strategic success.
Responsibilities
- Closely collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of talented people.
- Set the overarching visual strategy and design principles that guide the entire creative department across all touchpoints (digital, brand, and product).
- Oversee the evolution of our global design systems, ensuring they are scalable, accessible, and reflect the highest level of visual sophistication.
- Act as a primary creative partner to C-suite executives and key client stakeholders, using design as a lever to solve complex business challenges.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to ensure technical feasibility and strategic alignment from ideation to launch.
- Serve as an evangelist for design excellence both internally and externally, staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies (AI, spatial design, etc.) to keep the agency/company at the cutting edge.
- Refine design workflows and philosophies to improve the quality of output while maintaining organizational agility and profitability.
- Bring a fresh, insightful point of view that inspires both the internal team and the client, putting the team and client first.
- 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 experience in visual and interactive design for global brands, with at least 4 years in a dedicated leadership position.
- 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
- Visual Design
- Interactive Design
- Figma
- Hubspot
- Google Suite
- Slack
- User-Centered Experience Design
- Interaction Design
- Brand Development
- Design Systems
- Public Speaking
- Presentation Skills
- Strategic Problem-Solving
- Process Efficiency
- AI
- Spatial Design
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Associate Director
- Leadership
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $100 - $125 per hour
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, DEPT® creates what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further.
- DEPT® operates at the intersection of technology and marketing.
- DEPT® has 4,000+ specialists who deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data.
- DEPT® is 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move.
- Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI.
- DEPT® is a B Corp-certified company passionate about purpose-driven work.
- DEPT® fosters personal and company growth in a collaborative, open-door, best-idea-wins environment.
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.
- DEPT® participates in E-Verify.
- 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!
- 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.