About This Role
Directing the craft and design intent for creative teams is at the core of this senior leadership role. The Design Director translates ideas into strong design direction, guides teams through the design process, and ensures ideas are elevated, cohesive, and effective across all channels.
Responsibilities
- Own the business impact of creative decisions, driving revenue, brand growth, and client trust in partnership with VP leadership
- Lead senior client relationships as a trusted creative partner across disciplines
- Own and grow major scopes of work, identifying opportunities to expand impact and business
- Hold teams accountable for delivering work that performs against business goals
- Connect creative ambition to strategy, timelines, and business realities
- Lead design direction across priority work and key new business opportunities
- Define the visual direction, ensuring design is strategically aligned, distinctive, and executable
- Shape design thinking early to align teams around a clear visual vision
- Make clear design decisions when direction or execution lacks clarity
- Drive exceptional design execution
- Make final design decisions on high-impact work, ensuring alignment to creative vision and craft excellence
- Elevate the quality, consistency, and cohesion of design across every touchpoint
- Establish and protect standards for typography, composition, color, motion, and visual storytelling
- Push work beyond expectations while grounding it in brand, platform, and audience needs
- Build strong creative partnerships
- Partner closely with Creative Directors, ACDs, and cross-functional teams
- Empower ACDs and senior designers through clear direction, feedback, and coaching
- Remove obstacles so teams can focus on delivering their best work
- Lead visual storytelling and presentations
- Lead design critiques, creative reviews, and high-impact client presentations
- Own the visual narrative in executive, client, and internal leadership forums
- Shape presentation materials and visual stories that inspire confidence and buy-in
- Champion modern design practices
- Apply AI, emerging technology, and modern design tools to improve creative quality and speed
- Encourage innovation while maintaining uncompromising standards of craft
- Make final design decisions, ensuring every deliverable meets the highest standard of design excellence
- Develop ACDs and senior creatives into confident leaders through coaching, feedback, and real responsibility
- Set clear expectations for creative quality, ownership, and decision-making
