Creative Design Director

JOB TITLE: Design Creative Director

LOCATION: 100% remote (PST only or NY)

DURATION: 6 month contract

PAY RANGE: $120 - $135 /hr

TOP 3 SKILLS:

• 10+ years of experience across the full palette of brand expression: digital, print, motion, retail, packaging, campaigns, OOH, and events & experiential
• 10+ years experience in a creative leadership role, building consumer brands globally
• Experience working in a research-driven environment

COMPANY:

Our client is a Fortune 500 multi-national technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Our mission is to build tools that help people feel connected anytime, anywhere. Our brand studio brings together world-class experts to develop and ship groundbreaking products at the intersection of hardware, software, and content. We have a clear mandate to ship products at scale.

Our products today cover a variety of AR/VR Wearables, and we continue to develop other innovations across hardware, software, and social presence as we work on the foundational elements of our brand vision.

The Brand Design team solves brand problems for our products using design as a strategic tool and drives the design evolution of our brands. The main focus areas for the team are 1) bringing Brand Strategies to life, 2) building scalable design systems, platforms and programs and 3) designing consistent, meaningful, and innovative brand experiences for marketing, digital, in-product, spatial, events, retail, and packaging.

We are currently seeking a Creative Director, Brand Design to partner with designers, writers, producers, marketers, and researchers to further develop our brands, lead execution across a holistic customer experience, and to ensure a consistent high-quality visual language through all touch points. This person must have a strong background in design & creative direction (brand agency or in-house brand design team) with a strong, focused experience in Brand Identities, Communication Design, and Marketing. This person also should be a highly strategic thinker with a proven track record for leading efforts to execute across digital, print, motion, retail, packaging, campaigns, OOH, and events & experiential.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative, semi-structured environment. This person must be willing to roll up their sleeves to get into the work.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define the design direction and execution of the brand design strategy
• Evolve the visual language of brands and continue to hone in on the brand systems to create styles that become iconic
• Develop original breakthrough ideas and conceptual and expressive brand design for a variety of touch-points across digital, print, motion, retail, packaging, campaigns, OOH, and events & experiential
• Manage the development of executions that strongly resonate with a range of audiences while maintaining consistency for the brand
• Sketch, ideate, and generate new concepts quickly based on stakeholder direction and self-driven research
• Work cross-functionally, balancing the needs of stakeholders and breaking down complex briefs into simple, compelling ideas and highly engaging, world-class design
• Create and sustain a culture of excellence as a beloved leader of designers and partner of producers, program managers, product marketing managers, and cross-functional partners in product and industrial design
• Inspire, enable, energize, and manage world-class designers, freelancers, and agency partners

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8+ years experience as a creative leader with an emphasis on brand design
• Experience across the full palette of brand expression: digital, print, motion, retail, packaging, campaigns, OOH, and events & experiential
• Experience developing and managing holistic consumer-facing brand systems in an integrated environment
• Experience leading creative work and overseeing creative teams and/or agencies
• Experience recruiting talent and mentoring creatives
• A link to an online portfolio showcasing your work (include link on your resume)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years of relevant experience delivering creative work on projects, across a variety of touchpoints
• 10+ years experience in a creative leadership role, building consumer brands globally
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience working in cross-functional teams
• Experience working in a research-driven environment