Design Director

Job Title: Design Director

Job Location: Sunnyvale CA 94085 - Remote

Onsite Requirements:

• Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma
• 2 – 6 years minimum professional experience with strong experience managing designers
• Strategic design portfolio showing personal experience

Job Description:

• Manages and leads the day-to-day workload of the Client design team, to deliver high-bar creative assets for marketing campaigns, collateral, email, event signage, swag, and more.
• Collaborates with stakeholders across Brand, Copy, Product and Growth-Marketing teams to interpret and draft creative briefs; determine the best creative approaches for achieving results within established brand guidelines and/or templates, and coordinate with project managers to outline and oversee contributions from design team members.
• Throughout the life of a project, they intentionally guide work to the desired creative outcome through clear and focused design feedback.
• The ideal candidate is a skilled designer and experienced people-manager, with a portfolio demonstrating an attention to design detail and exceptional craft.

Key responsibilities include:

• Act autonomously to manage and guide a team of designers to develop high-bar, impactful marketing creative from brief to delivery
• Coordinate and contribute to strategic creative briefs, defining a top-level creative vision and/or prompts which drive strategic design development, interpret and clarify stakeholder feedback, direct appropriate creative revisions, and oversee delivery of final creative assets
• Succinctly and professionally present to senior leadership, stakeholders, and organizations

Skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in related creative field (design, advertising, etc.)
• 6+ years minimum professional experience at an in-house team or creative agency
• 6+ years experience managing designers, including brand, motion, and web design
• Extensive experience working with external agencies and design vendors from RFP to delivery
• A strategic design portfolio that clearly demonstrates your design process from ideation to implementation, and ability to lead designers to deliver high-bar creative
• A deep knowledge of visual design principles including layout, typography, color and composition

• **3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.
• This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future**