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About the Role
ELLE is seeking a visionary Design Director to shape the brand's visual identity across all platforms, leading a design team in this temporary leadership role.
Responsibilities
- Shape ELLE’s visual identity and creative direction across print, digital, social, photography, video, events, and emerging formats.
- Lead a team of three designers, providing creative direction, mentorship, feedback, and support while fostering a collaborative and ambitious creative culture.
- Direct the design of the print magazine, including covers, editorial pages, and other high-profile visual executions.
- Partner with photography, art, editorial, fashion, market, digital, social, marketing, branded content, and contributor teams to develop cohesive and compelling work.
- Develop visually ambitious stories and packages incorporating photography, illustration, infographics, motion, video, and other storytelling formats.
- Conceptualize and execute creative direction for fashion shoots, editorial initiatives, and special projects that elevate ELLE’s visual point of view.
- Establish and maintain visual systems, style guides, and design templates that create consistency while allowing for innovation across platforms.
- Manage projects from concept through production, balancing long-term creative strategy with hands-on design and execution while meeting demanding deadlines.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional editorial design experience across print and digital, ideally within a consumer fashion, luxury, media, or lifestyle brand, or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience shaping the visual identity of a consumer editorial brand, including magazine cover design and high-profile editorial work.
- Experience leading, mentoring, and developing a creative team, with a thoughtful and collaborative approach to people management.
- Strong understanding of fashion, luxury, editorial storytelling, and contemporary visual culture, with a sophisticated and distinctive design sensibility.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with editorial, photography, fashion, market, digital, social, marketing, and other cross-functional teams.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, with experience using WoodWing and Figma.
- Exceptional production skills, attention to detail, organization, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- A collaborative, open-minded leadership style, with the confidence to advocate for creative expertise while empowering others to do their best work.
Skills
- Adobe InDesign
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- WoodWing
- Figma
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $105,000 - $105,000 USD
About the Company
- Hearst Magazines is home to 30 iconic brands, creating content and experiences that inspire, inform, and connect audiences across fashion, beauty, lifestyle, entertainment, food, and more.
- With a portfolio that spans print, digital, social, video, and experiential platforms, Hearst Magazines brings together some of the most influential voices and creative talent in media.