Associate Director, Visual Design

Overview

Associate Director, Visual Design is a creative leadership role responsible for setting the visual strategy and design principles across the creative department and evolving the global design systems.

What you'll do

• Closely collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of talented people.
• Set the overarching visual strategy and design principles that guide the entire creative department across all touchpoints (digital, brand, and product).
• Oversee the evolution of global design systems, ensuring they are scalable, accessible, and reflect the highest level of visual sophistication.
• Act as a primary creative partner to C-suite executives and key client stakeholders, using design as a lever to solve complex business challenges.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to ensure technical feasibility and strategic alignment from ideation to launch.
• Serve as an evangelist for design excellence both internally and externally, staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies (AI, spatial design, etc.).
• Refine design workflows and philosophies to improve the quality of output while maintaining organizational agility and profitability.
• Bring a fresh, insightful point of view that inspires both the internal team and the client.
• Generate strategic insights and moodboards to facilitate creative innovation.
• Drive complex digital projects from kick-off to completion, ensuring deliverables exceed client expectations and stay within budget and deadlines.
• Establish project direction, craft guidelines, and assist with production as needed.
• Identify key client decision-makers and grow and maintain these relationships, collaborating across all internal departments and external stakeholders to achieve desired results.
• Actively contribute to the design discipline through mentoring, conversation, and proposing ideas to elevate company operations and improve processes.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience in visual and interactive design for global brands, with at least 4 years in a dedicated leadership position.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Mastery of Figma (including components, variants, and auto layout).
• 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.
• Advanced capability in adopting and implementing generative AI tools (such as Midjourney, Runway, Vizcom, and Weavy) into the design pipeline to maximize asset velocity, explore vanguard concepts, and drive structural innovation.
• Demonstrated expertise in bridging robust design systems with performance marketing initiatives, including architecting and optimizing scalable, modular components in Figma for dynamic paid ads and multi-channel marketing (Meta, TikTok, Google, and Pinterest).
• 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.

Details

• Location: US Remote.
• Based on a 40-hour workweek.
• Salary range: $122,000 — $170,000 USD.