Principal, Visual Design

USA (Remote)

$96K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 13 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead the design function across brand, UX, and digital projects, mentoring the creative team, shaping strategy, driving complex initiatives from kickoff to delivery, and nurturing client relationships.

  • Lead design strategy and high visual standards across websites, branding, UX, and content
  • Drive end-to-end, multi-stakeholder projects while growing the design team

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Closely collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of talented people.
  • Lead and mentor the creative team, fostering a collaborative, optimistic, and proactive culture.
  • Bring a fresh, insightful point of view that inspires both the internal team and the client, putting the team and client first.
  • Define and implement successful design strategies, setting high visual and conceptual standards for all company efforts (including websites, branding, UX, and content).
  • 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 proven experience in design and interactive work for leading brands, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
  • 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.
  • AI-Enhanced Production Ecosystems: Advanced capability in adopting and implementing generative AI tools (such as Midjourney, Runway, Vizcom, and Weavy) into the design pipeline to maximize asset velocity, explore vanguard concepts, and drive structural innovation.
  • Design Systems for Paid Media Scale: Demonstrated expertise in bridging robust design systems with performance marketing initiatives. Responsible for architecting and optimizing scalable, modular components in Figma specifically designed for dynamic paid ads and multi-channel marketing matrices (Meta, TikTok, Google, and Pinterest).
  • 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
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DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI. Certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

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