Director, Digital Design

VSA's Digital Practice provides brand and marketing audiences with meaningful content and communications that tackle clients’ business problems. Across multiple forms, media and channels, we unite the art and engineering of content—strategizing, concepting, structuring, creating, adapting, publishing and measuring.

We are looking for a Director, Digital Design to join a dynamic team that will lead planning and development of usable, useful, compelling visual content for a broad range of interactive projects. They will ensure and maintain a consistent, high quality level of work and contribute to the overall growth and success of a team of designers.

We define and craft sophisticated, dynamic experiences across multiple channels and devices - mobile, web, physical environments, and extended reality.

Together, we come up with big ideas and define them down to the interaction level with appropriate detail. We advocate content choices based on clear strategy or heuristic principles and can tackle smaller projects or sizable components of large-scale projects depending on business needs.

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• Lead the creative across multiple accounts and represent the practice in new business meetings.
• Communicate account knowledge with the team, so they understand and articulate opportunities according to established guidelines and philosophies.
• Crafting user research plans, synthesizing research findings into useful insights, and translating insights into engaging brand and digital experiences.
• Advocating for users in every aspect of the process.
• Establish overall design direction for client programs and projects, synthesize and translates creative briefs to the team, orchestrate all creative aspects, and coordinate all constituents.
• Assist in developing omnichannel digital strategies that are insightful, useful, and align with our clients’ business objectives.
• Identify potential growth areas with Client Engagement and help craft and grow client relationships.
• Lead teams in the development of prototypes of varying fidelity and the creation of clear build-ready documentation.
• Champion design and user experience principles, including (but not limited to) atomic design, responsive behavior, accessibility, usability, and scalability.
• Present to clients and to internal teams to run productive meetings and workshops.
• Engage in high level discussions with peers and managers about the firm.
• Work closely with Project Managers and Client Engagement leads to scope projects accurately and to establish project plans.
• Work with Practice Leads to continuously evolve our methods.
• Lead and work with multidisciplinary teams on multiple projects, ensuring that quality is high, objectives are met, and the team is appropriately used.
• Foster a collaborative environment where everyone has a voice and positive collaboration is achieved.
• Team management, including performance reviews, formal feedback, and career planning and support

• 10+ years of demonstrated experience in Design
• 5+ years of leading digital product creation.
• 3+ years of proven experience effectively leading a team.
• Experience working with large B2B and B2C clients.
• Able to partner with and empower other teams: design, UX, writing, content strategy, research and development
• Proven track record in successfully leading multiple projects concurrently
• Ability to lead cross-functionally and prioritize client and team needs
• A collaborative teammate who colleagues and clients admire
• A grounded sense of self that includes outstanding listening skills, confidence, and emotional intelligence
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and ability to drive decisions with fact-based data and/or empirical insight
• A highly motivated self-starter who thrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced culture
• Outstanding verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Confident as a captivating storyteller and an eloquent, clear communicator
• Leads by example and has the highest degree of integrity
• Adept at preemptively identifying problems with a solutions-oriented approach
• Committed to delivering excellent work at all times
• Expertise in digital design tools (Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, Zeplin, Principle, etc).

Does this sound like the right opportunity? We'd love to hear from you! Apply now!