As a Design Director, you’ll lead projects into uncharted territories without blinking. You’ll create intuitive, engaging experiences that people want to visit, use, and visit again. You’ll work with a team to gauge how a product should look, feel and work, and understand what users need and want in the digital space and in real life.
On any given day you might
- Conduct interviews, competitive research, design explorations, and strategic analysis
- Create interactive experiences that are useful to users and promote our client’s businesses
- Identify key ideas to drive projects and how to implement them in multiple channels
- Work with visual designers to co-create design systems
- Provide deliverables including prototypes, proof of concept documents, wire frames, user flows, use cases, and user scenarios
- Present various aspects of the user experience to development team and clients
- Track and monitor progress on development and quality of the experience
- Present your own work
- Lead and manage smaller project tracks autonomously
- Facilitate design workshops with stakeholders
You’d be the right fit if you
- Have proven design experience with examples of successfully launched projects that demonstrate strategic, conceptual and creative thinking
- Have a proven ability to lead the design of large, complex interaction systems
- Are exceptionally organized and able to switch between different projects in a fast-paced environment
- Understand interactive experiences, channels, and design principles
- Are proficient in underlying interactive technologies, such as web and mobile
- Exemplify with grace under pressure
- Have exceptional presentation and written communication skills
- Are a natural leader and comfortable working directly with clients
You bring
- 6+ years of experience in Product/Service/Experience Design
- The knowledge of what good design systems look like while being able to zoom out and see the broader picture, connecting the dots to create a cohesive overall experience
- The proficiency in tools for design, presentation and prototyping including Figma, Sketch, the Adobe Creative Suite, InVision, Principle, Keynote and Google Slides
- The ability to communicate with grace and stay calm under pressure
- A passion for innovation and craft as well as experimentation with technology
- A point of view on specific areas of interest within experience design, industry trends or sectors and confidence in promoting them both internally and externally from the agency channels
- A portfolio demonstrating relevant past work (Only candidates with a portfolio will be considered)