Design Director

As a Design Director Art you couple a strong creative voice with strategy and product thinking to lead performance marketing and design framework initiatives. Balancing creative thinking political acumen and organizational / process savvy you develop solid client relations by clearly communicating and justifying concepts. Visual and systematic design woven together with a performance lens is your bread and butterbut youve also got strong working knowledge of experience design brand development interactive commerce creative and product processes UX and UI principles and scalable design system developmentall essential in your role.

Youre looking to hone your management skills directing the collaborative efforts of a large creative team. And the environment you build for your team fosters professional growth and inspires others to exceed expectations. Most importantly you embody and embrace our valuesto be honest inspired driven passionate and realin everything you do.

You Will :

• Lead the design of a digital design system both building from established patterns and iterating on new design components to evolve the system
• Be a hands-on creative lead with the desire and capability to bring the best out of a design team.
• Build and maintain creative culture within the design team
• Understand skillsets and personalities of team members to find areas for opportunity or improvement
• Drive the strategies that address customer needs and business goals across digital channels.
• Contribute creative solutions and innovations that strengthen both the agency brand and market leadership position.
• Develop & deliver innovative proposals to capture both account growth and new business opportunities.
• Promote continuous improvement and accountability by driving Creative discipline and operational excellence and lending industry vertical expertise.
• Perform strategic account planning with senior management in vertical marketing groups.
• Conceive and create experience design solutions that fulfill strategic business objectives.
• Be just as comfortable in the work as leading it. Figma is an extension of your creativity.
• Effectively communicate creative ideas and strategies to all project stakeholders.
• Lead and partner with multidisciplinary teams including all creative disciplines technology planning account and program managers partners clients and more.
• Provide regular team leadership and constructive feedback on all accounts.
• Develop monitor and modify the business unit creative department staffing strategies and plans including team composition performance skills training and mentoring.
• Develop implement and monitor quality standards across all creative artifacts and deliverables.
• Continuously improve Creative methods problem-solving models and best practices.
• Proactively manage the success of production scope schedules and budgets.
• Engage and inform practice leads from media technology marketing science usability and quality assurance to maximize results and ensure satisfaction.
• Support and lead Human Resource initiatives with a focus on performance management.
• Understand embrace and communicate corporate mission and values.

You Have :

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization and we want to set you up for long-term

an effort to do so we expect this team to work from an office 5 days a week.

We continually review ranges to address skills experience and markets. Base salaries are determined during our interview process by assessing a number of factors that inclu de but arent limited to a candidates experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position. For current CM employees tenure will also be a consideration.

Salary Range

$150000 - $170000 USD

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.

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If U.S. based : Canada based : U.K. based : Costa Rica based : Experience :

Director

Key Skills

Rhinoceros 3D,Information Architecture,Ux,Usability,Adobe Creative Suite,Adobe Photoshop,Adobe Illustrator,Experience Design,Grasshopper,Sketch,Sign Manufacturing,Adobe Indesign

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 150000 - 170000