Saatchi & Saatchi

Associate Director, Experience Design

Saatchi & Saatchi$106K — $146K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • A four-year degree in design or a related field.
  • 7-9+ years of extensive design experience demonstrating creativity and prowess.
  • Formal education in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Factors, or Graphic Design is preferred.
  • Experience in user research and familiarization with design principles.
  • A strong portfolio showcasing diverse projects across multiple platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and communicate a cohesive vision for design projects.
  • Guide teams in creating impactful user experiences on various devices.
  • Mentor and manage designers and content strategists to optimize performance.
  • Utilize design systems to maintain consistent visual standards.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally in strategizing and designing complex interactions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401K plan with employer contributions.
  • Parental and family care leave policies.
  • Tuition reimbursement for continuous learning.
  • Flexible time-off policies to support work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Overview

Our Experience Design team crafts digital experiences people love to use. We are collaborators and innovators who thrive in multidisciplinary teams. We can start from a blank page and help realize the vision for a great experience, and aren't afraid to get our hands dirty making that vision a reality.

Our experience runs the gamut from site to mobile, eCom to campaign, marketing to editorial to product, with one foot in beautiful visual expressions and the other in rock-solid user experience. At heart we are designers who love creating new, meaningful experiences and are well versed in the practice of modern digital experience creation.

We're looking for a leader who will help set the vision for their teams and their projects. You'll be as comfortable sweating the details of a design interaction as you are presenting your teams' work. You'll be a mentor and a manager, developing talent to be their best. And you're passionate about growing your own talent, as well.

Responsibilities

Things we want to see in you:
  • A portfolio of beautiful, usable experiences designed for all kinds of devices and contexts, showcasing impactful experiences for products and platforms, campaigns and content
  • Hybrid design experience: strong UX fundamentals paired up with refined UI and visual design skills
  • Well versed in the fundamentals of visual design: color, typography, illustration, motion, etc.
  • (Not so) basic prototyping capabilities
  • Exceptional ability to create, maintain, evolve and use a design system
  • Strong experience in discovery-based activities, user research, and agile processes
  • Demonstrated ability to think holistically about an experience to ensure user and business needs are met
  • Competency to create site maps, wireframes, user flows, journey maps and other experience models
  • Complete comfort sketching and riffing with a team to arrive at exceptional design solutions
  • Experience partnering with other capabilities to strategize, design and build the work, including annotating complex interactions
  • High level of proficiency in Figma and Adobe CC
  • Experience with generative AI tools (e.g., Figma AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Midjourney, Runway) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation
  • Amazingly awesome written and presentation skills that showcase passion, informed opinions and design rationale
  • Strong experience leading project teams of designers and content strategists to produce on time and quality deliverables - you must be able to get briefed on a new project, collaborate with a team to tackle the challenge, and manage, organize and defend the work of your team members, while also contributing to the day to day outputs
  • At least a couple years of experience managing and mentoring direct reports and junior talent in their career growth

Qualifications

Great candidates often have:
  • A four-year degree
  • A formal design education, and 7-9+ years of experience being sort of amazing
  • Additional study in HCI, Human Factors or Graphic Design
  • Enough research experience to be dangerous
  • A robust portfolio of work across devices and platforms
  • Basic understanding of front-end development technologies
  • A familiarity with common social platforms
  • Creative agency experience desired
  • Prior experience with CRM as a channel


Got the sparkle? Apply if you believe your unique skills are a fit.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: USD $106,780.00 - USD $146,100.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 1/1/2027.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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