Associate Creative Director
Associate Creative Director
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Job Description
Smith is on the lookout for a talented and visionary Associate Creative Director who excels at providing creative direction and leading design teams. You will act as a clientfacing leader and a dedicated mentor to the designers who report to you. Your mission is to create and guide designs that are not only visually captivating but also usercentered driving meaningful interactions and delivering exceptional experiences. You will play a key role in evolving our clients brands while ensuring that their products and platforms meet the needs of their users.
As an Associate Creative Director at Smith you will be at the forefront of our creative and user experience design initiatives managing crossdisciplinary teams on major accounts. You will oversee all phases of user experience and visual design workfrom discovery and conceptualization through prototyping visual QA and productionensuring that our solutions are visually stunning functionally effective and solve real problems. Your role will include collaborating closely with research and engineering teams to create experience principles style guides detailed user flows visual design comps and interactive prototypes that meet user needs and business goals. You will colead the creation and refinement of design processes in partnership with our Creative Director helping shape our approach to usercentered design while inspiring and guiding the broader team.
Your ability to blend design craft with strategic thinking will be pivotal. You will advocate for the enduser while addressing business objectives ensuring our work combines creativity usability and innovation. If you thrive in a collaborative design environment and have a passion for pushing the boundaries of creative and UX design we want to hear from you.
What Youll Do:
- Direct all phases of creative work for major accounts from research and concept through prototyping highfidelity design and delivery. Ensure that designs are usercentered visually stunning and technically sound.
- Partner with UX designers to create intuitive interaction patterns information architecture and user flows that drive product usability and accessibility.
- Be a thought leader and advisory for the endtoend creative lifecycle:
- Lead the articulation and mapping of customer journeys driving customer experienceled engagements and conversations
- Shape and contribute to creative strategy and research to inform and inspire design direction
- Oversee user testing feedback loops and optimization to ensure designs evolve to meet user needs effectively
- Create designs that meet the overall business objective while honoring commitments and deadlines.
- Guide the creation of brandappropriate visual designs ensuring a high standard of design quality and creativity across all projects.
- Clearly present what our team is tactically capable of implementing with project plan in mind while also being able to speak to strategic roadmap of a feature.
- Codevelop and lead department processes from discovery through to Visual QA.
- Collaborate closely with frontend developers to ensure designs are implemented with precision and scalability. Advocate for design systems component libraries and design tokens that bridge the gap between design and code.
- Support the growth of the team by mentoring designers providing constructive feedback and fostering a culture of collaboration curiosity and innovation.
- Driving design innovation by exploring modern tools trends and technologies including AI to improve workflows and elevate outcomes.
What We Look For:
- 7 years experience in product design with a proven track record of leading and delivering complex design solutions
- 2 years leading and mentoring designers in a collaborative fastpaced environment
- Expertise in Figma advanced prototyping and motion design tools and proficiency with enterprise design systems across channels.
- Strong understanding of user research methodologies and the ability to apply insights to design
- Commitment to constantly improving your skills and staying current with developments and trends in the industry as well as sharing this knowledge with others
- Quality standards and attention to detail with openness to constructive feedback
- Experience creating visual designs for responsive commerce websites and web applications
- Understanding of and experience with usercentered design methodologies and best practices in particular the role of design in creating usable and effective web interfaces
- Strong information design skills with experience in data visualization
- Excellent time management skills; ability to work under pressure and hit deadlines while managing multiple projects at once
Success Metrics
Delivery
Highquality designs delivered on time and aligned with business goals.
Team Impact
Improved team productivity and morale through mentorship and process improvements.
Collaboration
Enhanced crossfunctional workflows and alignment between design strategy and development.
Innovation
Implementation of scalable systems and innovative solutions that elevate customer experiences and drive business outcomes.
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
