Associate Creative Director, Design

Kettle

• $160K — $190K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in digital design and art direction, creating pixel-perfect designs within a rigorous product environment.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional teams.
  • Strong client management skills, with experience presenting to senior-level clients.
  • Experience managing and mentoring designers through formal and informal reviews.
  • Experience with global creative tech clients is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Understand and challenge client needs to maintain work integrity and excellence.
  • Inspire clients by aligning on the creative vision and providing clear perspectives.
  • Encourage diverse, on-brand creative solutions from the team.
  • Guide the team in creating unique, ownable client experiences focusing on UX and art direction.
  • Prioritize work and resources across projects with cross-functional leads.
  • Maintain expertise in creative competitive landscape and design culture.
  • Mentor designers at all levels, facilitating their career development.
  • Embrace challenges and work collaboratively with teammates and clients.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for hands-on involvement in high-profile digital projects.
  • Embedded client partnership with exposure to senior-level stakeholders.
  • Dynamic work environment with a mix of onsite and remote projects.
  • Chance to lead and develop a team of designers.
  • Access to a network of innovative creative tech clients.
Full Job Description
We are hiring an Associate Creative Director, Design, to oversee end-to-end digital website project execution for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, youll partner directly with our clients to design world-class digital experiences that both adhere to established standards and push the creative in new directions. Youll be hands-on in the work as an experienced designer, while guiding other Designers and Art Directors in your pod as a project lead. If the term conceptual digital design resonates with you, along with detailed execution, then this role may be a fit.

These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote.

Candidates should have:
  • Significant experience in digital design and art direction, and the ability to create pixel perfect designs while innovating work within a rigorous product environment
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, copy, motion, production, and account partners
  • Excellent client collaboration and management skills, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients
  • Experience managing or mentoring junior to senior level designers, including formal and informal reviews and other talent development areas
  • While not required, bonus if you have experience with similar global creative tech clients

Wed like to know that you can:
  • Understand and challenge your clients needs across the board to ensure the integrity and excellence of our work
  • Be the person the client looks up to be inspired and to get their creative questions asked. Help them understand the teams perspective and align on the creative North Star
  • Explore multiple unique, on-brand creative solutions to answer the brief and encourage your team to do the same
  • Guide your team to create own-able experiences for the client through simple and relevant concepts, clear innovative UX, beautiful art direction and on-point tone & voice
  • Work with cross-functional leads to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs
  • Consistently demonstrate an expertise in the competitive landscape from a creative standpoint, and stay abreast of design culture and best-in-class creative across channels
  • Manage and mentor designers of all levels, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow
  • Embrace challenges, not afraid to get your hands dirty and solution with fellow teammates and clients

The target range of base compensation for this role is $160k - 190k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

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