Design Director
Saylor
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Los Angeles • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Set, maintain, and evolve the visual design standard across all Saylor client work, including brand, social, paid media, experiential, and OOH.
- Ensure all design work is conceptually strong, on-brand, and aligned with creative direction and Saylor’s creative standards.
- Provide clear, actionable feedback across multiple projects, teams, and accounts.
- Act as a hands-on designer on key projects when needed, particularly high-visibility or strategically important work.
- Champion strong visual systems, craft, and attention to detail across all deliverables.
- Serve as the primary creative and design leader for the design team - representing the team in leadership conversations/meetings.
- Mentor and coach designers at all levels, helping them grow both creatively and professionally.
- Establish clear expectations, feedback loops, and growth paths for designers.
- Partner with People Operations and leadership on performance reviews, promotions, hiring needs, and team development.
- Foster a design culture rooted in craft, curiosity, inclusivity, and collaboration.
- Partner closely with the Design Resource Manager to align creative needs with staffing capacity and skill sets.
- Collaborate with Creative, Production, and Accounts to help define scopes, timelines, and realistic design deliverables.
- Identify workflow challenges or inefficiencies and help evolve design processes to support scale and quality.
- Uphold consistency, quality, and efficiency across multiple teams and accounts.
- Collaborate with Creative, Strategy, Editorial, Production, and Account leadership to bring ideas to life visually.
- Translate strategy and creative concepts into compelling visual systems and executions.
- Establish design standards that support broader brand storytelling, campaign goals, and business objectives.
- Act as a design voice in senior-level creative discussions and decision-making.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional design experience
- Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence across brand, digital, and campaign work
- Proven experience leading, mentoring, and growing multidisciplinary design teams
- Comfortable balancing hands-on design work with high-level creative oversight and direction
- Experience working in fast-paced, agency environments with multiple clients and workstreams
- Strong communicator with the ability to deliver clear, constructive, and motivating creative feedback
- Deep understanding of brand systems, visual storytelling, and modern design tools and workflows
Benefits
- health insurance
- 401k
- generous vacation
- great opportunities for growth within the company
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
visual designbrand designdigital designcampaign designvisual storytellingdesign standardsdesign processescreative directionmultidisciplinary designdesign systems
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationfeedback deliveryproblem-solvingattention to detailcreativityorganizational skillsteam development