Associate Director, Visual Design

🕒 June 5

🏄 California, Illinois, +1 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $122k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍🎨 Art Director

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DEPT®

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1001 - 5000 employees

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📱 Media

Marketing • Artificial Intelligence • Media

DEPT® is a global digital agency that blends marketing, creative services and technology to help major brands grow. It offers AI transformation, brand & media, commerce, customer experience, and tech & data services, and emphasizes data-driven approaches and AI-native capabilities. DEPT® works with enterprise clients across industries, runs Growth Invention sprints, and is B Corp certified and climate neutral.

📋 Description

• 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 our 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.) to keep the agency/company at the cutting edge. • 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, putting the team and client first. • Generate strategic insights and moodboards to facilitate creative innovation. • Drive complex digital projects from kick-off to completion, ensuring the team's 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 leverage excellent interpersonal skills to 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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) and 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. • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage • 401K plan, plus matching • PTO • Paid Company Holidays • Parental Leave