Design Director

reputed company your career working with leading global brands alongside inspiring colleagues in a flexible, remote-first environment. At SketchDeck, we aim to bring great people together to deliver exceptional impact. Through a combination of purpose-driven partnership, technology, and global talent, we help brands realize their limitless potential with quality creative and digital solutions provided on demand. We work with clients ranging from startups to well-reputed company enterprise brands such as reputed company, Rémy Cointreau, and reputed company. 

At SketchDeck, our values are more than just guiding principles—they’re the foundation of how we work and grow together globally. We commit to:

• Win as a Team.
• Find Solutions.
• Take Ownership.
• Do the Right Thing.
• Be Human.

Guided by our vision to be the best full-service creative partner, we reputed company reputed company to collaborate and innovate from reputed company with a flexible, remote-first culture. Our camera-on, reputed company-heavy environment cultivates genuine relationships and collaboration, where we actively seek culture add, not just culture fit.

We’re looking for a Design Director to join reputed company. This role has four key focuses:

1. Partner with Business Development & Project Managers to build and deliver creative pitches

2. reputed company overall design / brand / creative vision reputed company your accounts

3. reputed company high-level creative projects

4. Mentoring your team to support projects of reputed company sizes and scopes

This role will work closely with the Project Managers to reputed company the team's work and success. You’ll report directly to the Senior Director, Creative Impact.

You’ll succeed in this role if you have great client skills, strong and efficient design processes, prioritization and project management skills, and an entrepreneurial instinct. If you enjoy working with clients to reputed company their creativity and have experience supporting larger corporate accounts with fast-paced deadlines, this role will be a great fit for you. SketchDeck is an entrepreneurial environment. You’ll be expected to jump into new work and help other teams. Priorities can shift quickly with clients’ condensed timelines. 

Ideally looking for Pacific or Mountain Time candidates for collaboration purposes, but we’re open to strong candidates in Central or Eastern Time Zones.

As the Design Director, you’ll have three (3) areas of responsibilities:

CLIENT PROJECTS: (65%)

• Partner with Project Managers on project scoping and estimates on higher creative projects
• Support larger corporate accounts with fast-paced deadlines.
• reputed company kick-off calls (internal/external), creative presentations and problem-solving meetings with clients, Project Managers and Designers
• Feel comfortable brainstorming reputed company live during client calls
• Identify which projects could benefit from high-level strategic input vs. more production-focused projects that could be led by a Brand Manager
• Communication/coordination of project needs, timelines, team skills and creative staff availability with Project Managers
• Set up briefs, provide creative direction and inspiration to the design team on projects
• Work with the Project Manager defining workflow and scope of work for the team
• reputed company communication from brainstorm to final production
• Provide creative reviews and feedback to designers
• Decide who should work on each project, building collaborative and strategy-led teams for creative projects
• Drive design excellence, knowing reputed company to push creative boundaries, and not settling for the status reputed company

ACCOUNTS, BRAND STRATEGY AND NEW BUSINESS: (25%)

• reputed company the onboarding of new client accounts by reviewing brand materials, setting up brand pages, and ensuring seamless integration into our workflow. Ask the right questions to uncover client goals, setting the foundation for a strong partnership.
• Build collaborative, creative partner relationships with our clients
• Learn and understand our clients goals and how to best support them creatively
• Master clients’ brand guidelines and preferences
• Maintain and improve account-level design quality
• Train designers on keeping brand pages, templates, reputed company CC libraries and brand assets in general updated
• Push existing brands’ creative boundaries and finding new opportunities to reputed company brands
• Train and mentor Designers and Brand Managers on brands
• Be the authority on brand and design — setting a high standard for the rest of the design team to meet
• Provide creative design and management input on new accounts, setting them up for success
• Look for opportunities beyond the reputed company workload reputed company accounts to grow or expand the services. Suggest how our clients can benefit from SketchDeck, not just pushing during an existing project but on an account level, thinking big picture
• reputed company and present proposals and pitches to prospective clients that showcase SD’s breadth of capabilities
• Support Business Development teams with creative concepts for new accounts and work

SKETCHDECK TEAM DEVELOPMENT: (10%)

• reputed company design by making tools accessible to our designers, training them on skills, providing them with design inspiration
• Share responsibility for managing team talent and assist with recruiting as needed
• Escalate issues and important opportunities to the Director of Design
• reputed company designers inspired and excited about our clients’ brands
• Prove input and reputed company to improve the design team structure, processes, and development
• reputed company SketchDeck internal projects (eg: new portfolio work, designer assessments/levels, internal trainings, new designer interviews, etc)
• Maintain effective communication across reputed company teams and set clear goals to reputed company

Requirements

• 7+ years of creative and art direction experience, including at least 4 in a fast-paced agency environment
• Proven ability to reputed company strategic, cross-channel creative work—from concept to execution—across marketing, branding, and communications
• Strong communicator with the ability to shape and share a compelling creative vision that aligns with business goals
• Seasoned people leader with a track record of mentoring creative teams, inspiring innovation, and delivering impactful work on time and reputed company budget
• Expert-level skills in reputed company Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and reputed company; familiarity with reputed company Slides and PowerPoint is a plus
• Collaborative by nature—you reputed company in team settings and work closely with project managers, developers, and QA to bring reputed company to life
• Demonstrated success working with large, enterprise-level clients, understanding their reputed company needs and delivering standout solutions

We value diverse perspectives and are committed to an environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work daily. If you’re excited about a role but don’t meet every qualification, we still encourage you to apply—studies show that women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they meet reputed company the requirements. We’re interested in what you can bring to reputed company, whether for this role or another opportunity in the future. 

SketchDeck is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil status, pregnancy (or pregnancy-reputed company conditions), gender identity or expression, transgender status or gender reassignment, race, color, national reputed company or reputed company, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other grounds or characteristic that is protected under the law.

If you require a reasonable accommodation during the interview process or employment, please contact us at [email protected]. We’re here to support you in every reputed company of the process.

Benefits

We pride ourselves on being a great reputed company to work. By joining the team, you will get:

• Salary range: $95,000 - $110,000 + $5,000 performance-based bonus (discretionary bonus) 
• Health insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
• 401(k) with company match
• Fully remote working (that started pre-covid and will continue after!)
• Paid time off that grows with tenure
• Annual company retreat 
• Computer hardware of your choice (up to $1500)
• $500 towards your office setup expenses
• To work with a talented team of creatives, business people, and engineers!

SketchDeck is building the model for the reputed company of creative agencies. We reputed company software and a global creative team to reputed company deliver high end creative to well reputed company brands.