Art Director

• Define and own the multi-year Applied AI roadmap for Clinical Development & Operations
• Build, scale, and lead a center-of-excellence team spanning data science, ML engineering, GenAI product development, and AI delivery management
• Serve as the executive voice of Applied AI to Senior Leadership, R&D governance forums, and external partners
• Lead development of predictive enrollment models that improve forecasting accuracy
• Champion integration of RWD/RWE into trial design, feasibility, and patient identification workflows
• Partner with Clinical Operations, Clinical Data Sciences, Biostatistics, Safety, Regulatory, and Digital to ensure AI solutions are designed for adoption, not just deployment

Senior Director, Applied AI, Design & Innovation

• Develop visual concepts and creative territories across social, digital, video, experiential, and emerging platforms.
• Partner closely with Copywriters, Strategists, Motion, Visual Design, and Creative leadership to create integrated campaign ideas and audience experiences.
• Lead visual storytelling throughout the creative process, from concept development and presentation through production and final delivery.
• Contribute to pre-production planning, production, and post-production to ensure creative intent is maintained throughout execution.
• Partner with Generative AI Artists to explore AI-assisted visual development and emerging creative workflows.
• Present creative work clearly and confidently to internal teams and clients, articulating the rationale behind visual decisions.
• Mentor and support Associate Art Directors, helping elevate creative thinking, craft, and execution across the team.
• Manage multiple projects and priorities while maintaining a high standard of creative excellence and attention to detail.
• Stay connected to culture, design, technology, and emerging trends to continually push the work forward.

Senior Art Director

• Advance Design Quality excellence across Medtronic by shaping strategy, standards, governance, and performance visibility for critical product development and quality system capabilities.
• Partner across Operating Units, Regions, and Core Quality Services to simplify and standardize Design Quality practices, strengthen inspection readiness, and enable consistent execution across a broad global product portfolio.
• Develop and execute functional objectives, build enterprise capability, and develop employees with the skills, knowledge, and judgment needed to move Medtronic Operating Units forward.
• Create and lead real-time critical process governance for high-priority product development programs, including expert consultation, issue escalation, and cross-functional alignment.
• Drive Design Quality Excellence across Operating Units by aligning OU practices to enterprise standards while enabling practical, risk-based execution in local business contexts.

Director, Quality Center of Expertise – Design Quality

• Provide strategic leadership for a Division within DLB's Design Department
• Oversee multiple engineering disciplines, leadership teams, client programs, and operational initiatives
• Establish the Division's long-term vision and drive operational excellence
• Develop organizational strategy and ensure successful execution of business objectives
• Collaborate with Executive Directors, Directors, Associate Directors, and peer Division Directors
• Lead change management initiatives and foster a high-performing, collaborative culture

Design Division Director

• Lead the creative vision and visual identity for Personal Creations (US/UK), Gifts.com, Amazon brands (Let's Make Memories and RedEnvelope), and Etsy storefronts, ensuring consistent brand execution across all customer touchpoints.
• Establish, evolve, and maintain brand standards while providing creative direction to designers, copywriters, marketing, merchandising, and external creative partners.
• Oversee the creative development and approval of digital assets including email campaigns, social media, digital advertising, Amazon content, product imagery, video, and ecommerce experiences.
• Partner with Marketing and Merchandising to develop seasonal creative strategies, promotional campaigns, and content calendars aligned with business objectives.
• Direct photography and video concepts, collaborating with internal and external production partners to ensure assets support marketing and merchandising initiatives.
• Monitor customer insights, performance metrics, and industry trends to recommend creative improvements, optimize customer engagement, and influence product presentation.
• Develop and maintain creative templates, design systems, and reusable assets that promote consistency and efficiency across marketing channels.
• Collaborate with the Creative Director to develop new concepts, creative initiatives, and innovative approaches that strengthen brand presence.
• Design and oversee high-impact creative for websites, landing pages, email campaigns, social media, digital advertising, and ecommerce experiences.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop and execute A/B tests and user experience enhancements based on customer insights and business performance metrics.
• Create original concepts for new campaigns, product launches, photography, video, and emerging marketing channels.
• Provide hands-on design support for priority initiatives, new creative concepts, and high-visibility projects as business needs require.
• Leverage the company’s proprietary AI ad producing platform for campaign development.
• Lead, mentor, and provide day-to-day direction to the design team, fostering collaboration, creativity, and professional development.
• Prioritize and assign creative work based on business priorities, project timelines, and team capacity.
• Partner with Project Management, Marketing, and Merchandising to ensure projects are delivered on time and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Review and approve creative work, provide constructive feedback, and ensure adherence to brand standards and quality expectations.
• Communicate priorities, processes, and project status across cross-functional teams while supporting an efficient creative workflow.

Art Director II – Advertising

• Manage and complete all parts ordering: Quickly and accurately order parts based on initial estimates and supplements; Communicate with parts vendors to order parts as needed; Partner with Repair Planners to ensure parts accuracy
• Monitor deliveries: Regularly track parts status and communicate with vendor on parts status as needed; Update Repair Planner accordingly
• Receive and check in parts: Receive and mirror match delivered parts to repair orders and ensure all parts are placed and accounted for on the parts cart
• Inspect delivered parts for quality: Inspect parts for damage upon delivery within two hours of expected drop off
• Return incorrect parts: Return incorrect parts immediately to the vendor
• Drive parts related KPIs: Monitor parts margin, pending credits, shop consumables inventory and Material spend; Communicate to General Manager as needed to discuss optimization
• Coordinate parts invoicing: Ensure parts invoices are posted daily in CCC One – make corrections as necessary
• Support Body Technicians with parts knowledge: Supply reference materials to Technicians to ensure proper parts usage as needed; Keep up on laws and regulations of parts installation
• Lead Parts Team (if applicable): Serve as a mentor and direct the activities of the Parts Assistant

Parts Manager

• Ensure consistency in brand voice across all written materials
• Mentor Copywriters and Senior Copywriters
• Develop messaging strategies and create compelling copy
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for visual storytelling
• Oversee messaging platforms across various media
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements in copy
• Present and defend creative work to stakeholders
• Stay updated on industry trends and evolve brand messaging

Associate Creative Director, Copy

• Lead the visual design strategy for new product features
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management and engineering
• Mentor junior designers and provide feedback on their work
• Conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions

Principal Art Director, Product

• Own visual design ideation and direction on brand campaigns, paid and organic social, GTMs and product marketing campaigns, and tentpole activations, from concept through final delivery, ensuring every output ladders up to Strava's brand strategy and business goals
• Partner with the ECD on creative strategy, bringing a sharp visual POV to early concepting and a detail-obsessed eye to execution, maintaining craft quality and visual cohesion across every format and collaborator
• Build and evolve multi-format design systems and visual frameworks that scale across digital, social, and experiential touchpoints
• Shape how Strava's brand expression evolves over time: visual identity, typography, photography, video, color systems, seasonal design language, and how we show up in culture
• Translate cultural signals, sport moments, and campaign insights into visual ideas that earn attention, not just impression, drive business goals
• Present work to cross-functional partners and leadership with clarity and conviction, connecting creative decisions to strategy and business outcomes
• Directly manage 2–3 experienced designers: regular 1:1s, career development, direct feedback on craft and creative direction, and performance conversations
• Partner and manage external agencies, freelancers and vendors to bring the right talent and expertise to the right work

Associate Creative Director, Visual Design

• Own copy direction for brand campaigns and paid social
• Manage 2-3 experienced copywriters and content creators
• Partner with executive teams to develop integrated campaign concepts
• Shape and evolve Strava's verbal identity
• Translate cultural signals and audience insights into creative ideas
• Write and direct copy across various formats
• Present work to leadership and connect creative decisions to strategy
• Collaborate with external agencies to uphold voice and tone standards

Associate Creative Director, Copy Writing

• Oversee MEP engineering design efforts across all phases of development
• Serve as the client’s MEP SME, providing technical and design management oversight
• Monitor MEP plans, calculations, specifications, and reports for approval
• Facilitate the design assurance process, ensuring client comments are addressed
• Collaborate with other leads to verify compliance with codes and safety requirements
• Support complex design challenges with the Innovation & Engineering team
• Leverage project experience for early site due diligence and utility routing
• Manage external engineering consultants and coordinate with construction teams
• Monitor project risks and develop proactive mitigation strategies
• Collaborate with cost management to support budget development

MEP Design Director – Data Center Construction

• Build and operationalize team rituals, cadences, and frameworks for Apps & Industries UX team
• Connect product roadmaps to UX priorities and manage design dependencies
• Serve as the strategic nerve center for UX leadership and coordinate reviews
• Partner with operations leaders for alignment and optimization across business units

Senior Director, Design Operations

• Embed with teams to understand user workflows
• Develop clear, opinionated insights for product design
• Architect interfaces and build working front ends
• Act as product manager for assigned workflows
• Teach organization on AI-native product design

Director of Product Design

• Act as the senior creative and operational lead for a dedicated production support team
• Set the standard for how design system components are built, documented, and governed across a mature, deeply integrated design system
• Oversee a multidisciplinary team spanning UX, UI, and documentation
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the client's internal design system leadership
• Own the quality, consistency, and craft of the design system across Figma design files and their code-adjacent counterparts
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of UX and UI Designers, providing creative direction, feedback, and professional development
• Develop a thorough understanding of the client's existing design system architecture
• Establish documentation standards and QC practices across the team
• Balance big-picture design system strategy with hands-on review of components, tokens, and accessibility standards

Creative Director – Design Systems

• Lead the design vision for keynote demos, executive presentations, and strategic storytelling moments
• Build strong alignment with Salesforce’s core design organization
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, PMM, Demo Engineering, and Communications teams
• Translate complex platform capabilities into intuitive and compelling end-to-end customer experiences
• Drive a culture of craft in design and execution
• Present complex design visions to key stakeholders

Director, Experience Design – Keynote Demos

• Drive creative strategy, brief writing, and concepting across campaigns
• Oversee static digital design ensuring consistency and on-brand execution
• Present unfinished ideas and influence stakeholders through storytelling
• Shape motion graphics and animation deliverables with creative direction
• Direct B2B sponsorship creative ensuring strategic soundness
• Collaborate with Producers and Creative Operations to manage timelines
• Contribute to a creative culture built on trust and shared ownership
• Drive AI adoption across creative workflows
• Stay ahead of trends in brand and digital advertising

Associate Creative Director

• Lead the development and execution of Rocket Money’s creative testing roadmap, driving scale and efficiency across both digital and offline channels.
• Collaborate closely with the creative team to design, implement, and optimize creative experiments. You will recommend testing approaches, monitor performance, analyze results, and translate insights into clear creative direction that continuously elevates the team's output.
• Conduct in-depth creative performance analyses, translating data into clear, actionable recommendations for the creative team to enhance future campaigns.
• Establish yourself as the go-to expert in creative experimentation within the app and web user acquisition space. You will stay up to date on industry trends and emerging opportunities, ensuring we lead the charge in creative innovation. Your ability to understand and leverage data sources will be essential in evaluating and refining creative test outcomes.
• Stay ahead of industry trends by researching the latest algorithmic insights, creative trends (paid and organic), and forging strong partnerships with channel representatives (Meta, TikTok, Youtube, and other key platforms) to identify and capitalize on creative testing opportunities that drive scale and growth.
• Cultivate a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team by regularly sharing data-driven trends and the outcomes of creative experiments.

Senior Manager, Creative Strategy

• Lead and shape end-to-end traveler experiences across Vrbo’s shopping, discovery, and booking journeys.
• Define and drive an organization-level experience vision and strategy, aligning teams around customer needs, business outcomes, and measurable success metrics.
• Operate as a player-coach, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on involvement.
• Lead, coach, and develop senior managers and lead-level ICs.
• Influence strategic roadmap discussions, framing problems clearly and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative insights.
• Ensure excellence in craft and execution by diving into critical workflows and reviewing details.
• Evolve and scale design systems and shared frameworks, ensuring consistency, speed, and coherence across products.

Director, Product Design

• Lead a journey design team that partners with research, legal and compliance, product management and engineering teams
• Develop and govern the architectural experience foundation for the advisor ecosystem
• Define and advocate for an ambitious Advisor experience design vision
• Collaborate and build relationships across diverse stakeholders
• Mentor and develop less-experienced team members
• Work with the Design System team, Product, and Engineering to establish scalable Information Architecture systems

Senior Director, Experience Design Architect

• Lead day-to-day creative output, partnering with copywriters, art directors, and editors to concept and create everything from high-level campaigns to episodic social series to reactive posts to creator/influencer briefs
• Delegate tasks effectively, providing constructive feedback and fostering an environment of growth and creative bravery
• Own, evolve, and protect social voice, ensuring consistency, wit, and cultural relevance across every post, script, caption.
• Get your hands dirty. You’ll be writing and ideating as much as leading (so if you had your heart set on only doing boring managerial tasks — sorry!)
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, confidently defending creative directions and translating high-level business needs into actionable tasks for the creative team
• Seamlessly manage the transition from abstract concept to final craft, ensuring the integrity of the creative vision is maintained across multiple high priority workstreams
• Spot opportunities to proactively pitch new formats and buzzy ideas to clients
• Manage and mentor junior team members by leading, inspiring and developing a team of innovative creative thinkers

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Senior Director, Applied AI, Design & Innovation

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Art Director II – Advertising

Parts Manager

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Principal Art Director, Product

Associate Creative Director, Visual Design

Associate Creative Director, Copy Writing

MEP Design Director – Data Center Construction

Senior Director, Design Operations

Director of Product Design

Creative Director – Design Systems

Director, Experience Design – Keynote Demos

Associate Creative Director

Senior Manager, Creative Strategy

Director, Product Design

Senior Director, Experience Design Architect

Associate Creative Director