Design Director – Freelance
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $103 - $122 per hour
Job Level
About the role
- Lead design direction across two concurrent website redesigns, ensuring a cohesive system-driven approach across both experiences
- Define and evolve a shared design system, including components, patterns, and templates that scale across multiple sites
- Guide and mentor a team of designers, providing clear feedback and direction to elevate the work
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and production to ensure feasibility and quality in execution
- Stay close to the work—reviewing flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs to maintain a high bar for craft and usability
- Establish and reinforce best practices for responsive design, accessibility, and component-based thinking
- Drive alignment with stakeholders, clearly articulating design rationale and decisions
- Identify risks, gaps, or inconsistencies across both builds and proactively solve for them
- Balance speed and quality in a fast-moving, iterative environment
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in digital product or web design, with time spent in a Design Director or Lead role
- Proven experience leading large-scale website redesigns, ideally for enterprise or eCommerce brands
- Strong expertise in design systems and component-based design, with experience scaling across multiple properties
- A portfolio demonstrating both high-level design direction and hands-on execution
- Experience managing and mentoring designers while staying close to the work
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, especially with engineering and product partners
- Ability to articulate design decisions clearly to stakeholders and clients
- High attention to detail with a passion for craft, interaction, and usability.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
design systemscomponent-based designresponsive designaccessibilitywebsite redesignhigh-fidelity designswireframesdigital product designuser experience designinteraction design
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcross-functional collaborationcommunicationattention to detailproblem-solvingstakeholder alignmentfeedback provisionarticulation of design rationalequality assurance