Associate Design Director
Role:
We are seeking an experienced and thoughtful Associate Design Director to play a key role in leading, and substantiating exceptional design thinking and strategic design work for the world's highest-profile brands across a broad spectrum of digital products and services.
What You'll Do:
Lead, build, and manage a team of international designers, defining the art and design direction of projects. Translate brand values, creative concepts, UX documentation, and user stories into functional and expressive design solutions. Work directly with clients and internal teams, pushing creative and technical boundaries beyond the original brief. Employ problem-solving skills and a full stack of design solutions to guide projects and design teams from start to finish. Present and substantiate work in person or through video calls during pitches, proposals, or production. Provide verbal and written conceptual thinking and design rationale to articulate and strengthen proposals.. What You'll Bring:
Natural design leadership and teaching skills with a proven track record of fostering, growing, educating, motivating, and retaining a team of creative designers. Approximately 8 years of relevant experience in digital and web design, demonstrating aesthetic excellence, presentation skills, research, troubleshooting, and problem-solving. Excellent social and communication skills, understanding how colleagues and clients work and think. Ability to judge the quality of the user experience and articulate improvements needed. Mindful of time, budget, and schedule, with flexibility and dedication to project success. Creative & Client Responsibilities:
Collaborate on creative design proposals in response to new business opportunities and RFPs, working closely with creative directors, UX/UI designers, producers, and growth specialists. Ensure realistic and accurate schedules and deadlines, implementing necessary course corrections during any stage of the design process. Craft and articulate convincing creative narratives and critical design rationales, presenting with passion to executive internal and external stakeholders. Ensure the provision of best-in-class service to clients, comprehending their needs, providing guidance, and setting up teams for success. Provide guidance to teams and/or design leads on maintaining exceptionally high design standards within the Americas Team. Team Responsibilities:
Help drive the management of design teams across time zones and cultures, contributing to the cultivation of an inspiring work culture within the Americas Design Team. Provide supervision and guidance to Leads on project execution and team management. Assist your Manager in generating internal retention and team-building strategies, fostering communication with other offices for alignment on team initiatives. Drive departmental growth through initiatives such as career advancement, performance evaluations, training, mentorship, recruitment, and related responsibilities. Empower the team to advocate for their work and actively seek solutions to challenges encountered in their projects. Establish and implement comprehensive design training programs that encompass best practices for the entire team. If you are a natural design leader, passionate about innovation, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we invite you to apply.
Join our fun, successful, and fast-moving company that constantly pushes the envelope in creative production. If you meet and exceed this profile, we'd love to meet you.
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About Media.Monks:
Media.Monks is the purely digital operating brand of S4Capital plc that connects 8,600+ digital natives across one global team. We are united by a mission to shift industries forward and pave the path towards ambitious outcomes so our clients and our people can realize their full potential for growth. Our unified model combines solutions in media, data, social, platforms, studio, experience, brand and technology services to help our clients continuously reinvent themselves throughout increasingly rapid cycles of disruption. Our efforts to shape culture, build innovative technologies and unlock the future of growth have earned recognition from numerous esteemed panels: we maintain a constant presence on Adweek's Fastest Growing lists , regular recognition at Cannes Lions, inclusion in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players , the title of Webby Production Company of the Year , a record number of FWAs, and have earned a spot on Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023. Together, these achievements solidify our experience in digital innovation, excellence in craft, and commitment to personal growth.
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Disclaimer:
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