Design Director
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
SHADOW is currently seeking to fill a Design Director position within its Creative Division. The ideal candidate has a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in a design creative or advertising agency environment preferably with consumer brands. This individual will report directly to the Executive Creative Director and serve as a senior creative leader across the agency setting design direction overseeing design excellence and guiding teams from concept through execution across a wide range of client and internal initiatives. This position requires the submission of a portfolio.
What You Bring:
- Creative Vision and Design Leadership: Your portfolio reflects a refined strategic point of view and a deep understanding of visual storytelling across platforms including print branding digital social experiential UI packaging presentations merch and more. You are equally comfortable defining high-level creative vision and diving into hands-on execution when needed. You have an exceptional eye for typography composition color and craft and can push bold innovative ideas while maintaining brand integrity.
- Agency Expertise and Strategic Thinking: With 10 years in a creative agency or advertising environment you understand the pace pressure and nuance of client service. You are fluent in translating briefs into compelling visual systems partnering with strategy and account teams to align creative output with business objectives and presenting work clearly and confidently to senior clients and stakeholders.
- Technical Fluency: You have expert-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator InDesign) and PowerPoint/Google Slides. Working knowledge of Generative AI design Figma and motion/video workflows is expected. You understand production processes across digital print and experiential formats.
- People Management and Mentorship: You lead with compassion and know how to inspire guide and develop designers at different levels. You bring clarity constructive feedback and set and uphold standards of excellence fostering a collaborative and creatively ambitious team culture. You are experienced in scaling teams overseeing multiple designers and mentoring talent to do their best work.
- Communication and Problem Solving: You are an articulate communicator and persuasive presenter able to clearly express creative rationale both internally and externally. You anticipate challenges proactively surface risks meet audiences where they are at and approach problems with a solution-oriented mindset. You are adaptable calm under pressure and skilled at navigating ambiguity.
What You Do:
- Set and Drive Creative Direction: You define and uphold the visual design vision across agency clients and internal initiatives ensuring work is conceptually strong culturally relevant and executed at the highest level. You lead the development of design systems campaign identities and visual languages across brand social experiential digital and presentation-based projects.
- Lead and Oversee Design Execution: You oversee the end-to-end design processfrom concept and creative exploration through refinement production and deliveryacross multiple workstreams. This includes brand identities event branding social and digital content presentations websites OOH merch and photo/video-led projects.
- Collaborate Across Disciplines: You partner closely with creative directors art directors copywriters strategists producers and account teams to bring ideas to life consistently across PR Influencer Event Social campaigns and fully integrated campaigns. You help translate strategy into compelling visual narratives and ensure alignment across all creative outputs.
- Manage and Mentor the Design Team: You lead mentor and review the work of senior and junior designers providing clear direction feedback and growth opportunities. You help set priorities allocate resources and maintain quality and consistency across all design deliverables.
- Client Leadership and Presentation: You play a key role in client-facing moments including creative presentations reviews and working sessions. You confidently articulate design thinking respond to feedback and guide projects toward strong strategic outcomes.
Annual Compensation
$150K - $180K (commensurate with experience)
What We Provide:
- Medical dental vision insurance
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Dedicated mental health days
- Unlimited sick time
- Give Back. We want SHADOWs to extend their hearts and give back to their various communities and interests on the clock! We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually (voluntary time off)
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching
- Pre-tax commuter and healthcare benefits
- 12 weeks paid leave for new parents
- Individualized career mapping
- Summer Fridays (early close Fridays Memorial Day - Labor Day)
- Hybrid work schedule (1-3 days in office per week depending on role)
While SHADOW intends to maintain these employee benefits the Company reserves the right to modify amend or terminate these benefits at any time and for any reason.
Additional Information
SHADOW promotes a diverse and high performing company culture. SHADOW is dedicated to providing equal opportunities to all qualified persons and to recruit hire train promote and compensate persons in all jobs without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability or sexual orientation.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Rhinoceros 3D
- Information Architecture
- Ux
- Usability
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Experience Design
- Grasshopper
- Sketch
- Sign Manufacturing
- Adobe Indesign
About Company
SHADOW is a creative marketing and communications agency with integrated disciplines across media relations, influencer marketing, experiential and event production, social media management and content development.
