Design Director
United States Department of Defense
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $155,100 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Closely collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of talented people across the agency and projects.
- Define the standard, acting as the aesthetic anchor for the team, setting an incredibly high bar for visual design, typography, and interaction. You are the guardian of the craft.
- Lead from the front, operating as a hands-on leader. You will sketch, design, prototype, and polish alongside your team, demonstrating what "excellence" looks like in the files.
- Pioneer new solutions to drive the creative vision for large-scale digital products, ensuring we aren't just meeting requirements but creating industry-defining work.
- Cultivate talent and mentor a multidisciplinary team of designers. Elevate their thinking through clear, actionable feedback, regular 1:1s, and by fostering an environment of optimism and creative risk-taking.
- Build unwavering trust with high-level clients. You will present complex creative strategies with clarity, identifying decision-makers and turning them into partners.
- Translate raw strategic insights into tangible visual languages. You ensure the "why" works just as hard as the "how."
- Bring a fresh, insightful point of view that inspires both the internal team and the client, putting the team and client first.
- Define and implement successful design strategies, setting high visual and conceptual standards for all company efforts (including websites, branding, UX, and content).
- Generate strategic insights and moodboards to facilitate creative innovation.
- Drive complex digital projects from kick-off to completion, ensuring the team's deliverables exceed client expectations and stay within budget and deadlines.
- Establish project direction, craft guidelines, and assist with production as needed.
- Actively contribute to the design discipline through mentoring, conversation, and proposing ideas to elevate company operations and improve processes.
Requirements
- 8+ years of proven experience in design and interactive work for leading brands, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Mastery of Figma (including components, variants, and auto layout) and familiarity with essential collaboration tools (e.g., Hubspot, Google Suite, Slack).
- Strong knowledge and experience in visual design, user-centered experience design, interaction design, and brand development. Experience developing and maintaining a robust design system.
- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic vision and creative inspiration to large, diverse teams.
- Excellent public speaking and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex information to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Highly detail-oriented, proactive, comfortable navigating complex organizations, and focused on strategic problem-solving and process efficiency.
Benefits
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
- 401K plan, plus matching
- PTO
- Paid Company Holidays
- Parental Leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
visual designuser-centered experience designinteraction designbrand developmentdesign systemFigmaprototypingsketchingcreative strategydesign strategy
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringpublic speakingpresentation skillsstrategic visioncreative inspirationdetail-orientedproactiveproblem-solvingprocess efficiency
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in DesignBachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts