Design Director

Seattle, WA (Remote)

$185K/yr – $214K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 23 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and lead a high-output, multi-disciplinary creative studio focused on brand-consistent, high-quality assets while driving AI-enabled workflows and governance, coaching the team, and strengthening client partnerships.

  • Lead and develop the creative team and processes
  • Ensure on-brand, high-quality deliverables
  • Drive AI-enabled workflows and governance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Direct and develop a multi-level creative team — running internal critiques, sharpening executions, and building a culture where high standards are the shared expectation
  • Contribute directly to concepting and design, bringing hands-on skill to the team's output and elevating work at every stage of production
  • Act as the studio's final quality check, reviewing and auditing all creative work before it reaches the client
  • Ensure every asset the studio produces is faithful to the client's brand guidelines, voice, and creative vision — from flagship campaign heroes to localised regional content
  • Develop team members' skills and creative output through regular coaching, feedback, and structured knowledge-sharing
  • Identify opportunities to improve creative processes and introduce smarter ways of working
  • Build an inclusive, collaborative team culture where diverse perspectives strengthen both creative output and working relationships
  • Partner with the OLIVER Business Director to manage studio operations, timelines, and the overall client experience
  • Maintain strong working relationships with client creative directors, account leads, producers, and project managers
  • Manage and prioritise team workloads across high-volume delivery cycles, adapting quickly when priorities or timelines shift

Requirements

  • A strong portfolio demonstrating brand system expertise, campaign craft, and multi-format creative execution at scale
  • Proven experience leading and developing multi-disciplinary creative teams in high-volume, fast-paced environments — agency, in-house, or embedded studio backgrounds all welcome
  • Deep expertise in brand identity and creative systems, with a track record of maintaining quality and consistency across diverse markets, channels, and formats
  • Experience leading creative quality processes — running critiques, setting standards, and developing team members' output
  • A collaborative, stakeholder-savvy approach, with the ability to build strong working relationships with senior clients, account teams, and cross-functional partners
  • Strategic awareness of how generative AI can enhance creative quality and delivery efficiency, combined with the judgment to evaluate outputs critically and maintain creative standards
  • Advanced proficiency with generative AI tools — including Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, or equivalent — and experience building AI-assisted workflows within a creative team
  • Expert proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
  • Strategic integration of generative AI across studio projects and operations
  • Experience setting AI quality standards and governance at studio or team level
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OLIVER | The Brandtech Group

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Established in 2004, we are the first and only company to exclusively design, build and run bespoke in-house agencies and ecosystems for brands. Today, we create work that delivers business growth, fame and purpose for over 300 clients in 48 countries and counting. Our unique model moves at the speed of modern business to drive change from the inside out; working smarter to make our clients’ money go further, and helping them build better solutions, systems and brands. Client solutions include Unilever’s U-Studio (a platform used by almost three-quarters of Unilever's brands globally), and adidas’ off-shore hub.We are part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which combines specialisms from Adjust Your Set (content and culture), Dare (design, experience and engineering) and Aylesworth Fleming (property marketing). IIG joined marketing technology group, The Brandtech Group (formerly known as You & Mr Jones) in January 2019 to give their clients access to the latest marketing technology solutions. The group includes tech-driven marketing companies, 55, Mofilm, Collectively, Gravity Road, Blood and Mobkoi, and holds strategic investments in leading technology businesses including Pinterest, Niantic, AI Foundation, VidMob, Jivox, Zappar, EVRYTHNG, Automat, Blacktag and Beeswax.

Founded in 2004
London Colney, England, GBR
3.8K employees (1,882 in marketing)
64% recommend to a friend
62% CEO approval

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