Key skills
CAILeadershipMentoringFigmaPrototypingCollaborationPresentation Skills
About this role
Role Overview
- 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
- 8+ years of experience in visual and interactive design for global brands, with at least 4 years in a dedicated leadership position in either agency or in-house teams.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong knowledge and experience in global websites, emails and digital marketing.
- Experience working with brands in the fashion, beauty or luxury category.
- Experience with art direction and content creation for global brands.
- Knowledge of rapid prototyping.
- 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.
Benefits
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
- 401k plan, plus matching
- PTO
- Paid Company Holidays
- Parental Leave