Design Director

Position

As a Design Director at Team, you lead 2-3 project teams, formulating and directing strategy-driven, creative design solutions from the start to the finish of a project. Reporting to the Creative Director, you’ll help mentor and grow your project teams, through thoughtful, actionable feedback and leadership.

You’ll present design work internally and externally and communicate with Team’s clients to build trusted relationships.

What You Need To Succeed

• Design: You love great design and always ensure our work—both yours and your co-workers’—meets our standards. You have a good sense of the design landscape, including the work of competitor firms.
• Collaboration: You show up every day with a positive attitude and work well with your co-workers. You communicate effectively and respectfully, providing feedback and modeling Team’s values, vision, and design standards.
• Critical Thinking: You enjoy identifying problems and finding clever, creative solutions.

Presentation: You’re comfortable presenting design concepts and ideas both internally and externally

• Leadership: You know how to energize and motivate a team. You’re comfortable taking and giving productive feedback. You want to be the best in a competitive field—and do so with integrity and honesty.
• Project Management: You’re organized and know how to manage schedules and budgets. You communicate expectations clearly, providing guidance and reviewing performance with design teams.

Your Responsibilities Include

• Crafting and developing creative briefs
• Developing creative concepts with design teams and directing the execution of 2-3 projects at a time
• Working with the Creative Director to ensure that scope and schedule are aligned
• Researching our clients’ business goals, positioning, history, and strategy and creating design briefs for internal and external designers
• Leading internal brainstorming sessions to develop high level conceptual ideas that guide our design process
• Leading project teams from brief to final design, including:
• Detailed visual identity including logo and icon design, color palettes, font selection and/or design of unique typography, image selection
• Brand reveal or design concept animations
• Brand guidelines, ““kit of parts,” and collateral design and production files
• Photography, 3D and/or illustration style/guidance
• Web user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design
• Static and interactive storyboards
• Digital, print, and experiential layouts
• Presenting concepts and design work directly to clients
• Providing printing specifications, reviewing, and approving final print/production files, color proofs and prototypes, and, when time allows, attending press checks
• Maintaining expertise in latest design and production software
• Supporting the development of and suggesting new processes and design standards to keep our work at the highest level
• Supporting Team’s overall culture, values, and mission

Supervision

Project teams as assigned

Salary

$115,000 - $150,000 based on experience

Please send your resume, portfolio, and a note about yourself, to [email protected].

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Team

Team is committed to building and fostering an environment that celebrates our diversity and nurtures our passions. We believe everyone is creative and our individual expressions contribute to the uniqueness of the work we create.

We encourage our team to show up authentically and embrace our differences in race, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, gender identity, socio-economic status, marital status, veteran status, and any other characteristics that make up our unique identities. Team is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we continue to invest our efforts to ensure Team is an inclusive place that delivers value to our team, our clients, and our community.